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On Monday, March 1, 2021, the University of Maryland Division of Research, Division of IT, and members of the Export Control and International Compliance (ECIC) Committee presented the webinar Sensitive Data, Export Controls, and Restricted Research. How can campus help? to the campus community. The objective of the webinar was to assist in understanding when your research may be subject to export control laws that require extra steps.

When it comes to health officials and experts evaluating environmental health risks among populations, what has been the norm isn’t enough, and a shift is needed to better protect children and other vulnerable groups, according to Devon Payne-Sturges, an assistant professor of Applied Environmental Health in the University of Maryland School of Public Health.

Diana Obanda (below), assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science, is studying whether the nettle plant, which often grows as a weed, can improve digestive bacteria in a way that can help fight obesity and related health problems.(Nettle photo courtesy of Wikipedia; garden photo courtesy of Diana Obanda)