TESTIMONY to the
MARYLAND GENERAL ASSEMBLY Presented by Wallace D. Loh, President, University of Maryland / february 2014
INNOVATION & EXCELLENCE The University of Maryland pursues innovation and excellence in all its work. The outstanding support provided by Governor Martin O’Malley and the Maryland General Assembly keeps us on our upward trajectory and has helped to earn us a growing reputation as a national “best value” university. In my 2013 report to the General Assembly, I promised to accelerate our research enterprise, increase technology transfer, raise graduation rates, expand our international education opportunities and spark revitalization of College Park. We have delivered on these promises. In the pages that follow, we highlight accomplishments in these areas by our talented students, faculty and staff. We report on the progress of our strategic partnerships, such as MPowering the State, which make us more competitive and comprehensive. Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to another year of innovation, progress and service to the state. Sincerely,
WALLACE D. LOH
ON THE COVER: PHYSICAL SCIENCES COMPLEX PHOTO BY JOHN T. CONSOLI
President, University of Maryland
EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE living and learning program, Advanced Cybersecurity Experiences for Students (ACES), offering four years of intense study, research, leadership training and internships to prepare a new generation of leaders in the field. Online, On Target
• Th e new Maryland Teaching and Learning Transformation Center is helping faculty create online materials for use in hybrid classrooms. • The state-of-the-art Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center will break ground this spring. • Four massive open online courses on the
Transforming the Undergraduate Experience To increase retention
Coursera platform, for a total of eight, were added to the university’s lineup; the entrepreneurship course reached 150,000 students and is being adapted for use in campus classes. Big Ten Playwriting Initiative UMD is partnering
and graduation, we are adding more opportunities for hands-on innovation and research; more living and learning programs; and more advisors and tutors.
with Big Ten Conference schools on a new playwriting and performance initiative. The Big Ten Theatre Chairs program will commission and produce new plays by women playwrights.
Acing Cybersecurity With support from
Northrop Grumman, UMD launched its unique Honors College cybersecurity
RISING EDUCATIONAL BENCHMARKS: 2013 STEM LEADERSHIP UMD produced the most Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) degrees in Maryland
INPUTS UP
OUTPUTS UP
FRESHMAN CLASS CREDENTIALS
FIRST-YEAR RETENTION RATE
AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOL GPA:
SIX-YEAR GRADUATION RATE
FY 2013: 3,200
TOP U.S. PRODUCER OF MINORITY GRADUATE DEGREES
PLAYWRITING PHOTO BY ZACHARY HANDLER
African-American doctorates:
Highest ever: 4.11
MEDIAN SAT SCORE:
1310
95%
Highest ever: 84%
#8 overall #1 in math/statistics #2 in physical sciences Asian American doctorates:
#3 in foreign languages #5 in arts #6 in business and education SOURCE: DIVERSE: ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
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EDUCATIONAL RANKINGS
of Michael Kaiser, retiring Kennedy Center president, and the DeVos Institute of Arts Management that he founded. They are the international gold standard in the field.
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance • T op 10 best value among U.S. public colleges for sixth year
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
U.S. News & World Report • #21 public university • #12 entrepreneurship program • 54 programs in the Top 20 nationally
Academic Ranking of World Universities (by Shanghai Jiao Tong University) • # 13 among U.S. public research institutions • #38 globally
Forbes Magazine • #14 “America’s Top Public Colleges”
Partnering With Communities Former
NFL player Domonique Foxworth ’04 and his wife Ashley (Manning) Foxworth ’06 launched a three-year innovation initiative. The Foxworth Creative Enterprise teams College of Arts and Humanities’ faculty and students with community organizations to address critical social issues. The new executive director of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Martin Wollesen, brings a national reputation for partnering with local communities and integrating the arts and sciences. In Fall 2014, UMD arts management education will expand with the arrival
Open Doors • # 12 in the U.S. for number of study abroad students (24% of UMD students study abroad)
Princeton Review/ Entrepreneur Magazine • # 15 U.S. undergraduate entrepreneurship program
StartEngine College Index • # 2 U.S. university where businesses recruit entrepreneurial talent
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The UMD-led D.C. Innovation Corps, funded by the National Science Foundation, trains scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs, including a group at the National Institutes of Health, in commercializing research. The Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship taught innovation minicourses in Fall 2013, reaching 60 percent more students than the previous fall. Next September, 10 semester-long “Fearless Ideas” courses will teach students how to develop entrepreneurial concepts. Startup Shell, the first student-run incubator on campus, opened. More than 25 student teams are creating companies there. Under Armour founder and CEO Kevin Plank ’96 and the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship expanded the annual Cupid’s Cup business competition nationwide.
RESEARCH & INNOVATION Bridge to the Future A UMD-led
consortium, including Morgan State University, won an $11.1 million federal grant to help U.S. officials prioritize needs and invest limited transportation dollars. The National Center for Strategic Transportation Policies, Investments and Decisions is one of only five nationwide. Terror Nets and Nukes With $3.2
million in federal funding, the UMDbased National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) is collecting and analyzing data on the smuggling of radiological and nuclear materials to assist international security monitors. Really Super Computing UMD has a
new high-performance computer, one of the fastest at any U.S. university. It will support data-intensive research in fields such as bioscience and national security. Advanced Manufacturing Siemens
donated its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) advanced engineering design software, which was used to build the Mars Rover. The gift, valued at more than $750 million, will be an important tool for researchers and will give students valuable preparation for work in fields like advanced manufacturing.
Preserving the Union The AFL-CIO
donated its entire historical archive—a collection filling six miles of shelving, and UMD’s largest archival gift. It establishes UMD as a top repository for American labor history. Tongue Un-Twisters UMD launched
a new research and innovation hub, the Maryland Language Science Center. It creates North America’s largest cluster of language scientists—more than 200 from many fields—to address language-related needs, such as increasing foreign language skills and overcoming learning disabilities.
RESEARCH AWARDS FY 2013 72.1%
FEDERAL/$336,149,693 Department of Defense Department of Health and Human Services Department of Commerce Department of Agriculture Department of Energy Department of Education Department of Homeland Security National Science Foundation NASA Other Federal
27.9%
NON-FEDERAL/$130,106,793 State of Maryland Corporations & Foundations Other
2013 RESEARCH EXPENDITURES
$464,641,042
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MPOWER REPORT CARD
This collaboration between the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is stimulating technology transfer, earning major research grants, creating new opportunities for students and benefiting citizens around the state. UM Ventures (Technology Transfer and Commercialization)
• T echnology licenses grew by nearly 50 percent, from 28 to 41. • Startups using UMCP- and UMB-licensed technology more than doubled, from five to 11. • “Site miners,” who scout for promising faculty advances, helped UMCP-UMB researchers secure 16 Maryland Innovation Initiative Awards totaling $1.6 million. • The Seed Grant Program led to more than $19 million in joint research awards. • UMB and UMCP faculty now mentor bioengineering seniors to help them pursue commercialization of their designs for new medical devices.
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Joint Research
• Joint research proposals more than doubled, to 72. • Successful joint proposals include a $19 million federal award for the UM Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science. • Fifty-one joint research faculty appointments are in the pipeline. Collaborative School of Public Health
• A joint master’s of public health curriculum will be offered in Fall 2014. • The Collaborative School of Public Health accreditation application will be submitted in August 2014. • Student recruitment for the school is under way, with a unified web portal available for applicants. Maryland Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation
•R esearchers are helping the Food and Drug Administration develop new tools, standards and approaches to evaluate new products. • A joint regulatory science master’s program has been approved, and a certificate program is under development. Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research at the Universities at Shady Grove (IBBR)
• In partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, researchers are seeking to expand technology
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transfer and commercialization in bioscience-related fields. Newly hired IBBR Director Thomas Fuerst brings extensive experience in the biotechnology industry, government and academic research. • A five-year, $6 million partnership with MedImmune will fund research and technology commercialization. Support for graduate student and postdoctoral fellowships and for adjunct faculty is under discussion.
Agricultural Law Education Project
• UMCP and UMB agricultural and legal experts are partnering to help meet Maryland farmers’ legal needs by offering web resources, training materials, educational programs and law library resource guides. Also, the project works with the Maryland Bar Association to educate lawyers statewide in agricultural law. Joint Undergraduate and Graduate Programs
Center for Health-Related Informatics and Bioimaging (CHIB)
• Th e one-stop web portal, Research Harbor, allows secure sharing of bioinformatics and clinical data. Pilot testing began in January 2014. • CHIB researchers submitted more than $70 million in joint research proposals, and have been awarded several multimillion-dollar federal contracts. Institute for a Healthiest Maryland and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
• Th e state, UMB, UMCP and University of Maryland Extension are combining forces to prevent obesity and tobacco use and to manage other cardiovascular risk factors. • UMCP, UMB and eight other partners are teaming up to reduce health disparities in Maryland.
• Starting in 2014, College Park Scholars will launch a new living and learning program, Justice and Legal Thought, for freshmen and sophomores taught by faculty at UMCP and UMB’s Francis King Carey School of Law. Also, the Law and Society minor will launch to prepare juniors and seniors for careers in fields such as health law, business, intellectual property and public policy. • UMCP’s A. James Clark School of Engineering and UMB’s School of Medicine are developing graduate-level engineeringmedical degrees. • The UM Scholars program has begun giving undergraduates research experience at the School of Medicine and will expand next fall to bring UMB students to College Park. • UMCP and UMB are developing a joint degree in biostatistics and bioinformatics. • MPower is developing a master of science in law program for working professionals in the Washington, D.C. metro area. The specializations will be tied to the Carey School of Law areas of national prominence: health law, environmental law and emergency preparedness.
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RESEARCH & INNOVATION Some Innovation from UMD Laboratories
• A way to detect the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) before symptoms arise • A novel, affordable way to overcome interference in wideband wireless data transmissions • A quick, low-cost method to manufacture medical diagnostics on the desktop • Software that can predict who will lead terrorist networks Investor Support
• T wo teams at UMD’s Energy Research Center received U.S. awards to develop innovative fuel cells for electric vehicles. •A partnership between UMD’s HumanComputer Interaction Lab and the Oracle Health Sciences Institute is developing software to help doctors quickly analyze millions of patient records. In the Pipeline
• C osmos ID, which uses innovative technology to quickly decode genomes • Rakta Therapeutics, which develops nutritional crop supplements to fight parasitic worms • IGI Technologies, which is devising high-speed methods to fuse multiple medical images • Renova Life, which is using new tools such as cloning and stem cells to create new therapies for heart disease • Visionics, which is designing new ways to capture, analyze and reproduce sound in three dimensions
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Pixelligent, a Baltimore nanotechnology
firm founded by UMD alums and incubated on campus, received $5.1 million in new equity funding.
Remedium, founded by UMD engineers
and located in the UMD incubator, got federal support to demonstrate the effectiveness of its novel spray that quickly stops traumatic bleeding.
New technology tested by UMD’s Space Power and Propulsion Laboratory on the International Space Station could dramatically extend the life of satellites. The technology captures in space a renewable power source.
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DISTINCTIONS
Civil engineering major Erin Hylton is one of 34 U.S. Marshall Scholars. She will pursue a master’s in water science policy at Oxford University. She also won a Boren Scholarship.
Krzysztof Franaszek, a biology and economics major, is the first UMD student to win the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. He will study virology at Cambridge University.
Truman Scholar Mohammad Zia, who interned at the U.S. Departments of Justice and State, will seek ways to improve U.S. relations abroad.
UMD’S SCHOLARSHIP SUCCESS EXCEEDS MOST OF OUR PEERS’ 180
Valerie Sherry, a UMD Master of Architecture candidate, won a University Innovation Fellowship from the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation.
Fulbright Scholarships: In 2013, UMD was a
Fulbright “Top Producer” again with 12 awards. It ranked seventh nationally among public doctoral research institutions. Goldwater Science Scholarships: Three of UMD’s
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four applicants received Goldwaters in 2013.
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10 Boren Scholarships for intensive study of critical foreign language. Gilman Scholarships: Thirty-two UMD students
with limited financial means won Gilman Scholarships to enable them to study abroad.
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REFLECTS DATA FOR 22 NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS WITH PUBLICLY AVAILABLE RESULTS
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Beinecke Scholar Sophia Sanborn, a linguistics and philosophy major, will pursue a doctorate focused on cognitive science.
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Student Hackers Are No Slackers
• M HACKS: These electrical and computer engineering students took first place in the world’s largest college hackathon, building an “intelligent” trash can that sorts recyclables. • U .S. MAJOR LEAGUE HACKING CHAMPIONSHIP: UMD students’ creative software engineering skills beat the competition from more than 100 schools, including MIT, Michigan and Stanford.
Students Gain Air and Ground Supremacy
• Terps dug deep to win the National Collegiate Soil Judging Contest. • Team Gamera set an unofficial world record (97 seconds) for longest human-powered helicopter flight, and won $50,000 for the achievement.
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DISTINCTIONS
White House Honors Michael Pack, director of UMD’s Center for Advanced Transportation Technology, has been honored by the White House for his efforts to improve communication between government transportation agencies and the public.
President Obama has nominated physics Professor Ellen D. Williams to head the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Activity (ARPA-E).
Cold Comfort In 2013, Physics
World named the Antarctic-based IceCube neutrino telescope its “Breakthrough of the Year.” UMD researchers are collaborating on the project, which allows astronomers to use particles rather than radiation to understand the skies. IceCube is the first to observe cosmic neutrinos, bursts of tiny, high-energy particles that reach Earth from space.
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Engineering Professors Derek Paley (aerospace) and Sarah Bergbreiter (microrobotics) won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest government honor given to early-stage researchers.
Theatre Associate Professor Brian MacDevitt won a sixth Tony for his Broadway stage lighting.
Korean Order of Cultural Merit: Robert Ramsey,
SUSTAINABILITY
chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, was honored by the Republic of Korea for his extensive research on the nation’s alphabet.
UMD reached its goal of reducing carbon emissions:
15% by 2012
• U MD physicist Sylvester James Gates, Jr. was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. • D istinguished University Professor Robert Levine received the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for lifetime achievement in American literary scholarship. • Judith Torney-Purta, a professor of human development and quantitative methodology, received the Jean Dresden Grambs Distinguished Career in Research Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and was elected to the National Academy of Education.
The Sierra Club ranked UMD the
13th Greenest
university in the country. The National Association of College and University Food Service awarded UMD a sustainability
Gold Medal
for waste management practices.
• C hemistry professors Ross J. Salawich and Lyle D. Isaacs were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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SERVICE TO THE STATE • U MD creates $3.4 billion in economic benefits to Maryland, producing $8 in economic impact for every $1 in state support. • U MD’s Maryland Small Business and Technology Development Center created 112 new businesses and 1,212 new jobs across the state in 2013. • Th e College of Education’s new Maryland Equity Project will do research on ending educational disparities. • Th e College of Education has expanded its doctoral program for promising school administrators to Anne Arundel and St. Mary’s counties. • A new University of Maryland Extension program helps state residents ensure the safety of drinking water from wells. • A s part of the Maryland Veterans Resilience Initiative, the School of Public Health trained more than 700 mental health and primary care professionals throughout Maryland to meet the needs of veterans and their families. • U MD’s National Center for Smart Growth Research formed a coalition to stimulate sustainable and equitable economic development along the proposed Purple Line corridor.
Revitalizing College Park
UMD played a significant role launching the College Park Academy, a new public charter school that blends online and on-site learning. UMD began joint patrols with Prince George’s County Police in neighborhoods surrounding the College Park campus and extended the code of student conduct to these areas.
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STATEWIDE FOOTPRINT UMD serves citizens in every Maryland county through programs like extension and small business services, as well as first-responder training.
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station University of Maryland Extension
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute
University of Maryland Extension
Maryland Small Business and Technology Development Center
Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute Maryland Small Business and Technology Development Center
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