TESTIMONY to the
MARYLAND GENERAL ASSEMBLY Presented by Wallace D. Loh, President, University of Maryland / february 2016
ON THE COVER: FREDERICK DOUGLASS SQUARE, HORNBAKE PLAZA PHOTO BY JOHN T. CONSOLI
A RECORD YEAR With strong, continuing support from the General Assembly and Governor Larry Hogan, the University of Maryland (UMD) turned 2015 into a year of record achievement. UMD’s students were the best ever and the most diverse. Graduation rates were the best ever and among the highest in the nation, including for underrepresented minorities. UMD’s extraordinary faculty and staff set a record for research funding, raising $550 million. Their work broke new ground in many fields and produced new technology. UMD set a record for fundraising in a single year: $201 million. Lured by UMD’s growing stature and strategic leadership, private real estate investment in College Park reached unprecedented levels. New strategic partnerships strengthened UMD’s comprehensive excellence, including a joint high-performance computing center with Johns Hopkins University and the state. The MPower collaboration with the University of Maryland, Baltimore thrived. A pivotal alliance with Washington, D.C.’s Phillips Collection will raise UMD’s eminence in the arts, turning a great STEM institution—noted for its science, technology, engineering and mathematics—into a great STEAM university. Thank you for your unwavering support. Together we will continue to excel in 2016. Sincerely,
WALLACE D. LOH
President, University of Maryland
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PERFORMANCE RECORD SETTING UMD’s highest-ever… GRADUATION RATE (SIX-YEAR)
86.4%
12TH-HIGHEST AMONG U.S. PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES
FRESHMAN CREDENTIALS
4.2
MEDIAN GPA
1315
MEDIAN COMBINED SAT
EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING
$550
MILLION
FALL 2015 ENROLLMENT
27,443
UNDERGRADUATE
FRESHMAN DIVERSITY
44.1%
10,697 GRADUATE
MINORITY
PHILANTHROPIC GIFTS (SINGLE YEAR)
$201
25.6%
UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIES
COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN
115
MILLION
Successful Outcomes
92%
OF UMD GRADUATES HAVE A JOB WITHIN SIX MONTHS OR PURSUE ADVANCED STUDIES
7,166
BACHELOR’S DEGREES
2,562
MASTER’S DEGREES
654
DOCTORAL DEGREES
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UMD RANKINGS U.S. News & World Report’s Best Schools • # 19 among U.S. public institutions (“Best Colleges”)
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• 2 3 programs with top 10 rankings (“Best Colleges”) • # 16 among U.S. public institutions (“Best Global Universities”)
Academic Ranking of World Universities (by Shanghai Jiao Tong University) • #14 among U.S. public institutions
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine
UMD named its Art-Sociology building for Parren J. Mitchell M.A. ’52, the first African-American student to take classes on campus and earn a graduate degree from UMD, and the state’s first African American elected to Congress.
• # 7 “Best Value” among U.S. public colleges (in-state)
Business Journals • #8 among U.S. public institutions
U.S. College Scorecard • T op 15 among public institutions with high graduation rates leading to high incomes (U.S. Department of Education)
Princeton Review/ Entrepreneur Magazine • #10 in the U.S. for undergraduate entrepreneurship
Nature Index Global • # 14 among U.S. public institutions for research productivity
The achievement gap declined to 5.5% for African Americans and 6.0% for Hispanics.
STEM Degrees
• One-third of UMD bachelor’s degrees awarded are in STEM disciplines. • UMD produces about one-quarter of all Maryland STEM degrees (the most in state). Diversity
UMD received national commendations in 2015 for diversity and inclusiveness: • INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine honored UMD with a Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award; • Education Trust recognized UMD as a national leader for high graduation rates of underrepresented minorities; • Campus Pride recognized UMD as a Top-25 LGBTQ-friendly institution. As student activists raised issues of diversity and inclusion on many U.S. campuses, UMD began a series of frank dialogues that will expand in 2016.
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PEOPLE BY THE NUMBERS Faculty Recognition
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NOBEL LAUREATES
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• P resident Obama awarded Robert E. Fischell M.S. ’53, a UMD bioengineering professor of the practice and university benefactor, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the top U.S. technology honor.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS
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NATIONAL ACADEMIES
Robert E. Fischell
MEMBERS
20
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF
• E nglish Professor and author Maud Casey received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE RECIPIENTS
Maud Casey
NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION RECIPIENT
John S. Baras
• Th e National Academy of Inventors named professors John S. Baras (electrical engineering) and Benjamin A. Shneiderman (computer science) 2015 Fellows.
ARTS AND SCIENCES MEMBERS
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• Th e Society of Professional Journalists awarded Philip Merrill College of Journalism Dean Lucy Dalglish its highest professional honor for extraordinary contributions to the profession.
Lucy Dalglish
• Assistant professors Mohammad Hafezi (electrical and computer engineering), Vladimir Manucharyan (physics) and Jacob Bedrossian (mathematics) were each awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for promising early-career scientists.
Benjamin A. Shneiderman
Mohammad Hafezi
Vladimir Manucharyan
Distinguished University Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Eugenia Kalnay (right) and UMD President Wallace D. Loh were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Jacob Bedrossian
Student Recognition
• C ollege of Agriculture and Natural Resources students took top honors for a third straight year in the national Sports Turf Management Association Student Challenge. • F or a second consecutive year, a School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation student team won the Urban Land Institute’s Hines Urban Design Competition. • U MD student teams won NASA’s 2015 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkage engineering design competition. • U MD engineering students won a second consecutive gold medal at the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition.
UMD students organized Technica, an “all-ladies” hackathon, which brought 400 girls and women to campus for a marathon session of computer programming. In addition, the second annual Terp-run Bitcamp drew 1,110 students for a 36-hour binge of software and technology creation.
• U MD students won the Environmental Protection Agency’s Campus RainWorks Challenge for their design of U.S. water infrastructure.
SCHOLARSHIP SUCCESS
99
MAJOR NATIONAL AWARDS
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BOREN SCHOLARSHIPS
GOLDWATER AWARDS
HOLLINGS SCHOLARSHIPS
CRITICAL FOREIGN LANGUAGES
ADVANCED STUDY IN SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND MATH
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
Alumni Distinctions
• R etired U.S. Army Capt. Florent Groberg ’06 (right) received the Medal of Honor from President Obama for gallantry and selfsacrifice in Afghanistan. • Beth Stevens Ph.D. ’03, a Harvard Medical School neurologist, was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.”
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IMPACT BY THE NUMBERS ECONOMIC IMPACT
$3.16
BILLION
ANNUAL ECONOMIC IMPACT ON STATE
$33.9
BILLION
REVENUE: 30-YEAR IMPACT OF FIRMS SUPPORTED BY UMD’S MTECH VENTURES
8,000
JOBS: 30-YEAR IMPACT OF FIRMS SUPPORTED BY UMD’S MTECH VENTURES
SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTER FY15
2,692
SMALL BUSINESSES SERVED
$48
MILLION
TOTAL LOANS SECURED FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
175
NEW BUSINESSES LAUNCHED
RESEARCH AWARDS TOTAL $550,384,756 FY15
30.4% NON-FEDERAL AWARDS
$167,156,210
843
JOBS CREATED
69.6% FEDERAL AWARDS
$383,228,546 RESEARCH EXPENDITURES $457,189,965
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Medical Devices
W. Rance Cleaveland, a computer science professor, is part of a multiinstitutional team developing a “CyberHeart”—a digital simulator to test the performance of implantable cardiac devices. Digital Humanities VIRTUAL/AUGMENTED REALITY SURGERY Amitabh Varshney, director of UMD’s Institute for Advanced Computing Studies, is working with doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center to revolutionize surgery with augmented and virtual reality. Students will get immersive 3-D views of rare surgeries, while surgeons will have virtual “windows” inside patients.
An interdisciplinary team is conducting research, education and training to apply the digital humanities to African-American historical and cultural studies, funded by a $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Robotics
Computer scientists Yiannis Aloimonos (right), Cornelia Fermüller and Don Perlis are developing “common-sense” robots that can learn by watching videos and process information more like humans. Remote Sensing
Using satellite imaging, UMD geographical sciences researchers Do-Hyung Kim, Joseph Sexton and John Townshend upended conventional wisdom and found that tropical forest loss is intensifying. U.S. firefighters battling wildfires will get a clearer view of threats with a new satellite-based detection tool developed by geographical sciences researcher Wilfrid Schroeder. Energy Cells
Chunsheng Wang, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have devised a groundbreaking aqueous lithium-ion battery that eliminates fire and pollution hazards while equaling the performance of regular lithium-ion cells. Wang and fellow engineering researchers Eric Wachsman and Liangbing Hu are developing solid-state battery technology that beats lithium ion batteries for safety, performance and cost.
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INNOVATION FACULTY INNOVATIONS INCLUDE THESE 3 UMD INVENTION OF THE YEAR WINNERS: Javier Atencia-Fernandez (bioengineering) for a groundbreaking bacteria detection method for testing complex food samples Gary Rubloff (materials science and engineering, Maryland NanoCenter) and Sang Bok Lee (chemistry, biochemistry) for a revolutionary, high-energy density nanopore battery Min Wu (electrical and computer engineering, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Institute for Systems Research) for technology to verify the source of video streams using Electric Network Frequency (ENF) signals
MakerBot Innovation Center
UMD opened the Baltimore-Washington region’s first large-scale, 3-D printing innovation facility (above)—the first Big Ten Conference university to do so.
UMD TECH COMMERCIALIZATION PRE-PATENT DISCLOSURES
167
U.S. PATENTS ISSUED
44
STARTUP LICENSES
5
AGREEMENTS
26
INCOME
$1,255,803
(INCLUDING SOFTWARE EVALUATION)
(INCLUDING PATENT REIMBURSEMENT)
ACADEMY OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
40% OF TOTAL UNDERGRADUATES IN 2014–15
Startup Shell
The student-run incubator has generated more than 60 startups in three years, including firms focused on financial literacy, 3-D medical modeling and organic coffee.
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12,339
BY THE NUMBERS $750
MILLION IN NEW PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN THE CITY OF COLLEGE PARK IN THE PAST THREE YEARS
GREATER COLLEGE PARK
43,000
UMD, IN COLLABORATION WITH PRIVATE INVESTORS AND LOCAL OFFICIALS, IS
SQUARE FEET OF FLEXIBLE MEETING SPACE IN THE HOTEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
TRANSFORMING COLLEGE PARK INTO A TOP UNIVERSITY TOWN AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER. Innovation District
UMD’s innovation ecosystem is growing along Baltimore Avenue, anchored by the Hotel at the University of Maryland. It will include conference space, makerspaces, flexible space for startups and mature businesses, and a “food hall” (above and left) offering international cuisines.
New Companies Recruited to College Park
UMD incubator-graduate FlexEl, adding 60 jobs that would have gone to Virginia
Startup Shell graduate Immuta, a growing data management firm
TalkLocal, founded by alumni, which connects consumers with local service firms via a mobile app
The four-star Hotel at the University of Maryland (above), which is being built with private funding, will open next year, stimulating real estate development and the arrival of new amenities in the city.
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STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
Advancing UAS Research
UMD expanded activity at its Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) research facility in St. Mary’s County, partnering with: • Google to test its UAS; • the U.S. Navy and Patuxent Partnership on research and STEM education; and • the Department of Homeland Security on countering unmanned aerial vehicles.
With state funds, UMD and the Johns Hopkins University built the Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center, a joint facility to support advanced research and big data analysis.
Uber and UMD forged a partnership to foster, support and advance student-driven innovations and technology. The company is investing in the student-run Startup Shell, a co-working space and incubator. They will award grants to studentcreated companies and will engage students in business competitions.
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In 2015, UMD forged a partnership with Washington, D.C's renowned Phillips Collection of impressionist, modern and contemporary art. The institutions will operate an arts study center together, provide joint courses, co-sponsor cultural events and jointly raise funds to build an open storage facility in College Park.
SERVICE TO THE STATE
The Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS) connected hundreds of UMD students and faculty with officials in Salisbury, Frederick, College Park and, most recently, Howard County to address their environmental and economic challenges.
T he Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute marked 85 years of training the state’s first responders.
• U MD’s National Center for Smart Growth helped create Baltimore’s first comprehensive regional plan for sustainable development. • U MD’s Terrapin Teachers partnered with local schools to develop a pipeline of public school STEM teachers. • Th e DeVos Institute of Arts Management launched a training and consultancy program to help 20 arts and culture organizations in Greater Baltimore. • U MD transportation researchers are developing personalized, real-time travel information for commuters. • U .S. Economic Development Administration University Center, a partnership with Morgan State University, analyzed economic development in Allegany County, Baltimore’s Carroll-Camden Industrial Area and Anne Arundel County’s National Business Park.
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T he Maryland Center for Health Equity’s Health Advocates In-Reach and Research (HAIR) program promoted colorectal cancer screenings through Prince George’s County barbershops and beauty parlors.
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STATEWIDE FOOTPRINT FROM VITICULTURE, AQUACULTURE AND CROPS TO DRONES, SMALL BUSINESSES AND FIRST RESPONDERS, UMD’S IMPACT REACHES EVERY COUNTY IN MARYLAND.
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station University of Maryland Extension
Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute Maryland Small Business and Technology Development Center
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