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2024 Earth Day Symposium a success!

On Monday, April 29, 2024, Physics graduate students, Kamal Aryal, Maurice Roots, Tony La Luna, Adeleke Ademakinwa, Roshan Mishra, along with GES students, Rhonda Plofkin and Erin Hamner, organized a highly successful Earth Day Symposium with the theme "Monitoring Planetary Health" (https://eds.umbc.edu/).

They invited several scientists and researchers from NASA, EPA, Naval Research Lab and UMD to give presentations and panel discussions. They also organized fun activities such as "Earth Hour Nature Hike" and student poster competition/award. Our president, Dr. Valerie Sheares Ashby attended the event and gave a closing remark.

Please see the UMBC news release for more details.

EDS attendees 2024

EDS nature walk 2024

EDS group on the stairs

Images credit: Kamal Aryal and Zhibo Zhang

Posted: May 7, 2024, 12:11 PM

EDS 2024 flyer