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Protecting Today's World for Tomorrow
New Major in Environmental Science and Technology
As the global population soars and countries strive to elevate their industrial and economic status, our natural environment is being challenged like never before. A new major in Environmental Science and Technology offers University of Maryland students a chance to play a vital role in preserving and protecting our environment. Available for the first time in the fall 2008 semester, this new major features four areas of concentration:

1) Ecological Technology Design
2) Environmental Health
3) Natural Resources Management
4) Soil and Watershed Science

These complementary and interrelated concentrations involve forward-thinking, cutting-edge curricula that will give students the knowledge and skills necessary to deal with increasingly severe environmental conditions and prepare them for careers investigating environmental problems and designing solutions that manage, mitigate or even reverse negative ecological impacts. For more information, visit www.enst.umd.edu.