Report to the Maryland General Assembly 2013

Report to the Maryland

General Assembly

Presented by Wallace D. Loh, President, University of Maryland  /  february 2013

A University on the Move

The University of Maryland continues growing stronger in academics, research and impact. We excel because of our talented students, faculty and staff, and because of the extraordinary support of Governor Martin O’Malley and the Maryland General Assembly.

Your efforts to keep tuition affordable and protect our funding are reflected in UMD’s ranking by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine: #5 best U.S. Public College Value for in-state students.

A series of strategic initiatives will increase that value for students and the state. A vigorous new focus on innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) will turn discoveries and scholarship into lasting social impact that extends throughout the State and beyond.

We are embracing that theme of I&E in every endeavor: through our fruitful new partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore, through creative uses of technology on our campus, and globally, in creative new collaborations with academic, government and business institutions.

We are a major force in areas critical to Maryland such as cybersecurity, climate change and energy, while extending our impact in basic research.

This report will highlight some of the many accomplishments that raise our educational and research profile, and strategic initiatives that confront future challenges. Your continued commitment and support for higher education make this progress possible.

Wallace D. Loh

President, University of Maryland

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Signature Initiatives

MPowering the State

MPowering the State brings together the University of Maryland campuses in College Park and Baltimore (UMB) to take advantage of our complementary strengths to promote innovation, better serve students and improve the State’s economy.

In less than a year, this collaboration has already produced the following: • UM Ventures: Coordinates and intensifies licensing and patenting at both schools.

School of Public Health junior Jennifer Fink cowrote this book for young children of military families separated by deployment or loss.

Coursera and Blended Education

UMD is re-envisioning education in a residential, public research university through online technology and blended learning. We joined Coursera, along with other prestigious institutions, and are offering four noncredit massive open online courses (MOOCs) to tens of thousands of students internationally.

• Innovation Seed Program: Helps move research from bench to business through a $6 million fund.

• Center for Health-related Informatics and Bioimaging (CHIB): Pairs College Park computer-engineering expertise with Baltimore’s medical-imaging strengths to conduct critical healthcare research.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded MPowering researchers $2 million to develop a tiny robotic tool for brain surgery.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

• The Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will launch this fall to extend I&E education to all students. The goal is to educate tomorrow’s innovator and entrepreneur. Through courses, competitions, outside-the-classroom opportunities and expert resources, we translate ideas into impact.

• In partnership with Northrop Grumman, UMD will offer this fall a unique, intensive living and learning program to educate a new generation of cybersecurity leaders.

• Collaborative School of Public Health: Expands educational and research opportunities.

UMD M.B.A. student Yuan He (third from left) took top prize in the university’s 2013 China Business Plan Competition with his pitch for Honeymoon Honey: harvesting honey for cosmetics by renting out bees.

• S ocial entrepreneurship thrives in the new Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, the Center for Social Value Creation and student competitions.

The Arnold E. Siegel Learning Center will open this fall as a high-tech facility for distance learning and simultaneous classes with international partners.

UMD architecture students worked with professionals to develop innovative housing designs able to withstand rising seas on the Eastern Shore.

Cultural and technological innovation spanned continents as School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies students, faculty and staff collaborated with peers at the National Academy for Chinese Theatre Arts for a unique bilingual production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Hiring Faculty

The university is expanding its program of cluster hires to build targeted strengths by hiring faculty in select, critical fields: quantitative biology, sustainable development, planetary origins and migration studies.

Great Expectations

In 2012, the University of Maryland joined the “Billion Dollar Club”—the echelon of universities that have raised $1 billion or more in private support. This money complements our vital state support.

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UMD students’ Food Recovery Network won two social entrepreneurship competitions by collecting prepared, perishable, but unused, campus food and delivering more than 30,000 pounds to D.C.-area homeless shelters. Network leaders have shared their model with students at 10 other campuses.

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Academic and research partnerships begin in July 2013. Athletic competition begins a year later.

Big Ten Conference

The university took the historic step of joining the Big Ten Conference and its academic partner, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). A true watershed, this action will assure the Maryland athletic program’s sustainability and vibrancy for decades to come.

Additionally, the extensive CIC education and research collaborations with university peers will increase academic excellence and provide countless new opportunities for our students, faculty and staff.

Great Expectations, The Campaign for Maryland reached its $1 billion goal in private support for scholarships and major academic and infrastructure needs.

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Technology Transfer and Commercialization

A chemistry professor’s firm is licensing to manufacturers his breakthrough process for producing plastics, artificial rubber and oils from plentiful natural gas.

An electrical and computer engineering researcher’s software dramatically enhances the sound clarity of smartphones and other devices. Her firm has raised nearly $3 million in Mtech’s Venture Accelerator.

The UMD electrical and computer engineers’ firm has received $8 million to adapt its ultra-powerful, thin-film batteries to power electronic cigarettes. The U.S. Navy wants the batteries to power underwater sonobuoys.

Efforts increasing the flow of UMD research discoveries into the marketplace: • So far in FY 2013, five startups using UMD-licensed technologies have been created, which is more than in all of 2012.

• Mtech’s Maryland Industrial Partnerships marked its 25th anniversary in November.

It has provided research assistance to more than 500 companies that have generated $25 billion in economic impact.

by the numbers

• Joint Quantum Institute researchers have developed a light-based switch that paves the way for an optical transistor.

• Maryland NanoCenter researchers have developed a powerful inchworm motor that could one day power an insect-size robot or operate a smartphone camera’s zoom.

UMD holds more patents than any other Maryland public university: • 134 invention disclosures received • 31 patents secured • 30 technologies licensed • 4 startups created using UMDlicensed technologies (FY 2012)

A linguistics and computer science researcher tested his propietary instant polling technology during the presidential debates and Super Bowl.

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research awards (fy 2012)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) new National Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in the University of Maryland Research Park creates what may be the world’s largest cluster of earth, climate and weather scientists, bringing together researchers from UMD, NOAA and nearby federal agencies.

I&E 2012

The firm is taking technology developed by the University of Maryland Energy Research Center’s director to the next step. His solid oxide fuel cells are capable of converting any kind of fuel into electricity.

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• An aerospace engineering research professor’s revolutionary wind turbine design won the Innovate the Future Challenge sponsored by Lockheed Martin.

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federal / Baltimore-based Pixelligent, an Mtech incubator graduate founded by UMD alums, is gearing up to sell customized nanomaterial additives to manufacturers. The company hopes to hire 100 manufacturing workers over the next several years.

Growing Research Partnerships with Public and Private Sector •L ockheed Martin and UMD signed a master research agreement that will fast-track research and development projects.

• The Maryland Cybersecurity Center has partnered with a total of 15 private tech firms on training and research since 2010.

•N ASA awarded $36 million to UMD, extending its partnership with the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center.

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•F DA renewed its support for the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition with an $11 million award.

• Th e National Institutes of Health awarded $5.9 million to the Maryland Center for Health Equity to expand research on eliminating racial and ethnic minority health disparities.

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research expenditure totals / (FY2002–12)

• Th e Robert W. Deutsch Foundation granted $1 million to the Future of Information Alliance to explore informationrelated challenges and opportunities.

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$502,301,632 external Research Awards, FY 2012

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• Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute: trains the State’s first responders • Small Business Development Center: offers a suite of services for small businesses • EdD for Prince George’s: doctoral program helps advance promising school administrators • The Poetry and Art in Rural Maryland Project: poetry-inspired murals on rural buildings

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• 14th among U.S. public research institutions

2013 a productive Awaits

President Barack Obama named physics Professor Sylvester James “Jim” Gates Jr. a 2013 recipient of the National Medal of Science.

Along with the National Medal of Technology, it is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists, engineers and inventors.

• National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship • National Science Foundation CAREER awards (9) • American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows (10) • Fulbright scholarship • Guggenheim scholarship • Sloan Foundation fellowship

• 38th internationally

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

• 2 3rd nationally for bachelor’s and doctoral degrees granted to minorities (continued next page)

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Look for…

• More Mpowering collaborations with UMB

•S teps to incorporate online technology and blended learning in our classrooms

• A major study to guide health-care system improvements in Prince George’s County

• Fully operating UM Ventures and Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• A certification system to guide municipalities’ sustainability work (four certified; 27 in progress)

• More research partnerships with businesses

•E xpansion of UMD police jurisdiction to surrounding city neighborhoods

• More research grants and interdisciplinary initiatives

•O pening of the College Park Academy Charter School in August

• Multiyear effort to raise graduation rates even higher

•P rogress on anchor development projects along the Route 1 corridor

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• 3rd-lowest tuition rate among the Top 20 public universities

Ongoing services include:

provides educational, agricultural, economic, and family services in every county

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As a land-grant institution, the University of Maryland shares its research, educational, cultural and technological strengths with the citizens of the State.

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Highlights Entrepreneurship

• 4th in the U.S. for aspiring entrepreneurs (Unigo.com) • 14th in the U.S. for entrepreneurially minded undergraduates (Princeton Review/Entrepreneur magazine)

Freshman Credentials Keep Rising (Fall 2012)

• 4.11 average GPA • 1300 average SAT score

Top-notch Faculty • 3 Nobel Prizes

• 6 Pulitzer Prizes • 49 members of national academies

Research Awards

• $502 million (FY 2012)

Return on State Investment

• $8 for every $1 invested by the State • $3.4 billion impact annually on state’s economy

No.15

A human-powered helicopter designed and flown by engineering students smashed the world flight-duration record in pursuit of the Sikorsky Prize, one of aviation’s last great frontiers.

in the U.S. for number of students studying abroad: 1,975 in 2010–11.

Source: Institute of International Education’s “2012 Open Doors” report

Computer science students won the MidAtlantic regional ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, advancing to the 2013 World Finals.

• 23,000 jobs supported • 12,500 employees The Mighty Sound of Maryland marching band performed at the 2013 Presidential Inaugural Parade.

Housekeeping Services earned the rigorous Green Seal Certification for its sustainable and healthy cleaning practices.

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