Innovation @ UMD
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January 20 Renowned UMD Professor Rita Colwell Named a Fellow in the National Academy of Inventors Colwell honored for a career of innovation and discovery, including work to understand the bacterium that causes cholera and to reduce incidence of the disease Read |
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January 19 UMD Research Empowers Leaner Bus Systems for Schools Done for the Howard County Public School System, the work is potentially applicable to most school busing systems and began as a project of students in UMD's QUEST Honors Program. Read |
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January 12 UMD Engineering Professor Receives Presidential Early Career Award Michael Rotkowitz Named a Recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Read |
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January 9 Five UMD Alums Are Among those Selected for Forbes’ 2017 30 Under 30 List Alums are named in the Healthcare, Enterprise Technology, Finance and Social Entrepreneur categories. Read |
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December 21 University of Maryland Key Partner in New National Institute for Innovation of Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals The $250 million dollar investment will advance leadership in pharmaceutical manufacturing Read |
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December 19 UMD Researchers Find Ultra-thin Solution to Primary Obstacle in Solid-State Battery Development Advance could lead to improved battery safety, performance and cost Read |
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December 9 Lenzer to Cultivate UMD Innovation-Based Economic Development Efforts Julie Lenzer to serve as Associate Vice President for Economic Development and Director of UM Ventures – College Park Read |
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November 22 UMD Receives $3M NSF Grant to Train Graduate Students in Network Biology Grant will help life sciences grad students learn physical & computer science tools for transforming massive amounts of raw data into information for new biological insights. Read |
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November 18 University of Maryland Continues Rise in Ranking for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Education UMD earns a #9 ranking from Princeton Review & Entrepreneur Magazine, to place in their top ten for a second consecutive year. Read |
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November 10 New UMD Program Recognizes Not All Agricultural Leaders Are Farmers Program will teach“agricultural leadership and communication” to students passionate about agriculture, but who don’t want to be farmers. Read |
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October 21 Fourteen Municipalities Awarded Sustainable Maryland Certified Status for 2016 College Park among 14 municipalities awarded 2016 Sustainable Maryland Certified status Read |
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September 30 NSF Awards $3.45M National Innovation Ecosystem Grant to University of Maryland Program guides scientists to connect their research with areas of scalable impact Read |
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September 30 UMD Researcher Awarded $1.8M to Develop Innovative Methods to Teach Foundational Math Skills College of Education professor receives $1.8 million federal grant to develop creative methods to teach children a key math concept. Read |
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September 15 President Wallace Loh, President Jay Perman Announce Plans for Maryland Academy for Innovation in National Security Historic Strategic National Security Partnership between UMCP & UMB Would Support the FBI in Greenbelt, Maryland. Read |
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September 9 University of Maryland Achieves First Flight of a Solar-Powered, Piloted Helicopter UMD team successfully lifts helicopter and passenger through the sole use of solar power. Read |
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