UMBC will take part in the National Teach-in on Global Warming over two days next week.

The event will be marked by programs and displays starting at 11 a.m. in The Commons on Thursday, Feb. 6. A full event list can be found here, which includes a global warming solutions fair featuring UMBC organizations and local green-minded companies and a panel discussion on policy responses to climate change including Donald Boesch (President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science), former congressman Wayne Gilchrest and Baltimore City’s coordinator for the Office of Sustainability, Sarah Zaleski.

Government organizations will also be present Thursday, including the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Maryland Energy Administration.

Select UMBC professors will be opening up their classrooms, taking a day of class time to discuss global warming and environmental issues within their particular discipline. Some professors who do not teach courses on Thursday have opened up their classroom Wednesday, Feb. 5 instead.

Bob Burchard, Professor Emeritus of Biology at UMBC, played a large role in organizing the event and is pleased that the school will be participating along with 600-plus institutions nationwide in the teach-in.

“There were enough concerned faculty and staff, concerned with the climate change issue, that everything came together,” Burchard said.