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With the growing number of Spanish-speaking patients who visit emergency rooms and doctors’ offices across the country, medical professionals often confront language barriers that can hinder treatment. Public health researchers have taken note, and a new introductory Spanish textbook authored by ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ professor Ernest Lunsford takes aim at the problem.

On March 25, 2011, Joel Hollingsworth presented a paper co-authored with Dave Powell at the 49th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Southeast Conference at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. The title of the paper was "Requiring Web-based Cloud and Mobile Computing in a Computer Science Undergraduate Curriculum". This conference is the oldest running ACM conference.

The International Federation for Information Processing Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2011) has accepted for presentation the co-authored work of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ senior Kate Vogt, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ assistant professor Duke Hutchings, and collaborators from Virginia Tech. The paper is titled "Co-located Collaborative Sensemaking on a Large High-Resolution Display with Multiple Input Devices."

The Office of Sustainability presents the GREEN TIP of the week: Reducing shower time by just two minutes will save both CO2 emissions and decrease water usage.

Founding Dean and Professor of Law Emeritus Leary Davis presented at a Leadership Forum of the University of Maryland School of Law on February 28.