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<Title>Institutes With Postdoctoral Positions in the Biomedical Sciences Seek Our Students</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Full Title: 12/22 Bb Upgrade Will Delay Auto-Creation of WT &amp; SP 2012 CoursesTo fix a <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/oit-news/archives/2011/09/known_issue_stu_1.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">known issue</a> of broken content links in some courses, reduce growing <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/oit-news/archives/2011/08/known_issue_bla_1.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">web browser incompatibilities</a>, and install <a href="http://www.blackboard.com/collaborate" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Collaborate</a> (Blackboard’s replacement for Wimba), DoIT will be upgrading the Blackboard production system on <strong>Thursday, December 22, at 10 p.m.</strong> As a result, Winter and Spring 2012 course shells will NOT be auto-created until <strong>Monday, December 26</strong>. 
    
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<Title>Grad Students &amp; Postdocs: Teaching Portfolio Seminar 10/14, $2000 Teaching Opportunity!</Title>
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<Title>Inspec Archive - Science Abstracts 1898-1968</Title>
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