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  <Title>UMBC faculty and staff award recipients place community at the core of their success</Title>
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  <Title>Smithsonian features Erle Ellis&#8217;s research on how humans have shaped ecology over millennia as a top discovery of 2021</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">“Our work shows that most areas depicted as ‘untouched,’ ‘wild,’ and ‘natural’ are actually areas with long histories of human inhabitation and use,” Ellis previously shared with UMBC News. They might be interpreted like this, he suggests, because in these areas, “societies used their landscapes in ways that sustained most of their native biodiversity and even increased their biodiversity, productivity, and resilience.” </div>
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  <Summary>“Our work shows that most areas depicted as ‘untouched,’ ‘wild,’ and ‘natural’ are actually areas with long histories of human inhabitation and use,” Ellis previously shared with UMBC News. They...</Summary>
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    <Title>Ocean exploration to environmental justice: UMBC students seize on unique summer opportunities</Title>
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    <Title>Graduating Retrievers find joy and career inspiration in supporting K-12 students and families</Title>
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    <Title>UMBC&#8217;s 2021 grads advance research with public impact&#8212;from disaster response to assistive tech</Title>
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