Innovation @ UMD
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December 7 New Seigel Learning Center at UMD Takes Distance Learning to New Heights Engineering students and faculty now have access to cutting-edge technology and the best practices in online learning at the new Arnold E. Seigel Learning Center, inaugurated in October by the University of Maryland’s Clark School of Engineering. Read |
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December 5 Pessoa Named First Director of UMD's Maryland Neuroimaging Center The University of Maryland has named Luiz Pessoa, Ph.D., a professor of Psychology in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, as the first Director for the new Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC). Dr. Pessoa will provide scientific leadership and vision for brain imaging research, collaboration, and cutting-edge methodology at the MNC. Read |
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November 29 UMD “Time Reversal” Research May Open Doors to Future Tech University of Maryland researchers have come up with a technology that one day could use “time-reversal” to recharge a phone, destroy tumors or disable a listening device hidden in a prosthetic toe -- without knowing where the objects are located. Read |
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November 20 New Informatics and Bioimaging Center Combines Resources, Expertise from UMD, UMB A new center combining UMD's advanced computing resources with clinical data and biomedical expertise at UMB could soon revolutionize the efficiency and effectiveness of health care in the state of Maryland and beyond. The new Center for Health-related Informatics and Bioimaging joins computer scientists, life scientists, engineers, physicists, biostatisticians in College Park with imaging specialists, physicians and clinicians in Baltimore. Read |
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November 17 MPower Collaborative Announces New Director of UM Ventures James L. Hughes, MBA, chief enterprise and economic development officer and vice president at UMB, has been named director of UM Ventures, the ambitious joint research commercialization effort of the two universities and a central part of the collaborative MPowering the State. In his role as director, Hughes will help combine the commercialization and entrepreneurial efforts of these two powerhouse universities that together do more than one billion dollars a year in externally sponsored research. Read |
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November 7 UMD, Lockheed Martin Sign Master Research Agreement UMD and Lockheed Martin have reached a major new milestone in their Strategic Partnership, enabling a streamlined process for initiating collaborative projects. Read |
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October 19 National Weather and Climate Prediction Center Opens at UMD UMD is now the "eye" of the nation's weather and climate prediction. Read |
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October 18 New NIH Grant to Advance Joint UMD & UMB Brain Surgery Robot Development A joint UMD-UMB team is developing a small robot to aid neurosurgeons in removing difficult-to-reach brain tumors. The National Institutes of health has awarded the team $2 million to continue development. Read |
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October 10 UMD Cupid's Cup Business Competition Opens to Student Entrepreneurs Nationwide Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship expands its Cupid's Cup Business Competition nationwide. Read |
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September 27 UMD and UMB "MPower the State" with New Collaborative School of Public Health It will give grad students at both institutions more opportunities in public health education, research, service, and training. Read |
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September 19 Massive Online Courses through Coursera Come to the University of Maryland The University of Maryland plans to offer four popular courses free this spring via Coursera - the international platform that hosts "MOOCs," massive open online courses. UMD is joining the six-month old consortium, which until now has had 16 other American Association of Universities members and world class international institutions. Negotiations with Coursera began last July. Read |
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September 7 Innovative Theatre Collaboration Combines Two Cultures, Two Languages in One Performance UMD crosses continents, oceans and 12 time zones with a groundbreaking, bi-lingual co-production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - a collaboration with the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts. Read |
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September 7 UMD's Future of Information Alliance Receives $1 Million The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation has awarded $1 million to the Future of Information Alliance (FIA) at the University of Maryland. Read |
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September 7 UMD Ranks 4th For Aspiring Entrepreneurs The University of Maryland ranks fourth in the nation for aspiring entrepreneurs. The new student-based ranking for 2013 comes from Unigo.com Read |
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July 29 Affordable, Wireless Warning Sensors Advancing In the years since a fatal bridge collapse, technological advances make wireless warning systems affordable and practical, say UMD engineers. Read |
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