Testimony to the Maryland General Assembly

Presented by Wallace D. Loh, President, University of Maryland / March 2012

Testimony to the Maryland General Assembly

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The University of Maryland A UNIVERSITY WITH A FEDERAL AND A STATE MANDATE

THE FEDERAL MANDATE » In 1862, Congress approved and President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Morrill Act, which created the land-grant colleges and mandated that they “promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.”

THE STATE MANDATE » In 1988, the Maryland General Assembly established the University of Maryland as the state’s flagship university. The Higher Education Act of that year creating the flagship institution specifically mandated that the University of Maryland become “one of the nation’s preeminent public research universities, an institution recognized both nationally and internationally for excellence in research and instruction, which makes the results of its research available for the use and benefit of the state of Maryland and its people.”

2012 Testimony to the Maryland General Assembly


Who We Are

HigHligHts of 2011As a symbol of the state’s commitment to educational excel-lence, the University of Maryland raises the visibility of the state throughout the nation and world. It attracts the best students, top faculty and job-creating industries. Leveraging our strategic proximity to Washington, D.C., the University of Maryland has established important partnerships with federal and state agencies.

This section highlights how the University of Maryland is meet-ing our federal mandate to promote education in the “pursuits and professions in life” and our state mandate to be “recognized both nationally and internationally for excellence in research and instruction.” And it highlights how the University of Maryland is becoming a university “superior to any other.”

“We desire to have an institution superior to any other.”CHARLES BENEDiCT CALvERT, Founder, University of Maryland, 1858

STUDENT HiGHLiGHTSThe accomplishments of our talented students extend beyond the classroom.

A team of 200 UMD students and faculty won the international Solar Decathlon sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Our win-ning house, named WaterShed (left), blends solar energy and water conservation.

FACULTY HiGHLiGHTSA world-class faculty is the heart of a world-class research university.

Our world-class faculty includes:

3 Nobel Prize reciPieNts

5 Pulitzer Prize wiNNers

49 members of NatioNal academies

This year, honors awarded to our faculty include:

5 fulbrightscholars

2 guggenheimscholars

10 nationalsciencefoundationcareerawards

2 sloanfoundationfellowships

5 americanassociationfor the advancementofsciencefellows

1 tonyaward

2 professorselectedto theamericanacademyofartsandsciences

1 professorelectedto theinternationalacademyof astronautics

1 humboldtinternationalresearchprize

1 stockholmprizein criminology

1 whitehouse“champion of change”

A team of 50 UMD engineering students designed and developed a vehicle, Gamera (below), that established a world record for the longest human-powered helicopter flight.

UMD Chamber Singers (right) took top honors at the prestigious Florilége

Vocal de Tours in France.


The President’sMandate

In pursuit of our federal and state mandates, upon becoming president of the University of Maryland, I announced my own mandate for the university.

In my inaugural address on April 28,2011, I listed four strategic priorities for the university:

i. student opportunity and acHievement

ii. innovation and entrepreneursHip

iii. internationalization

iv. service to tHe people of maryland and beyond

The following pages highlight initiatives under each objective.

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$104M ACADEMIC, ARTS AND ATHLETICS PROGRAM SUPPORT

GREAT EXPECTATIONS PROGRESS (AS OF FEB. 3, 2012)

119,916(UNIQUE) DONORS

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The $1 billion Great Expectations campaign was publicly launched in 2006.

As of Feb. 3, nearly 120,000 donors had made more than 245,000 gifts totaling $910 million. The $1 billion goal will be reached by Dec. 31, 2012.

Donors have generously funded $306 million in scholarships and other direct support for students. Gifts totaling $281 million have been made in support of faculty recruitment, retention and devel-opment, and for research; $219 million for facilities, equipment and infrastructure; and $104 million for academic, artistic and athletic programs.

Campaign-funded priorities include entrepreneurship, the performing arts, bioengineering, smart growth, economics, teacher education, military veterans’ assis-tance and athletics.

The Board of Trustees of the University of Maryland College Park Foundation has provided strong volunteer leadership for the campaign. Trustees have collectively contributed more than $150 million to Great Expectations.

PRESTiGioUS RANKiNGS

U.S. News & World Report

17th among national public research universities

30 programs ranked in the top 10 in the U.S.

71 programs ranked in the top 25 in the U.S.

The Wall Street Journal

8th among universities where employers like to recruit

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance

8th best value among in-state public colleges

10th best value among out-of-state public colleges

Academic Ranking of World Universities Shanghai Jiao Tong University

38th in the world

13th in the nation among U.S. public universities

Ranking Web of World Universities Cybermetrics Lab at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Centrificas

30th in the world (out of 20,372 universities)

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

14th in doctoral degrees granted to African-American students

20th in bachelor’s degrees granted to African-American students


Student Opportunity and Achievement

As the state’s flagship university, the University of Maryland attracts and educates the most talented students from Maryland and beyond. The intellectual rigor and energy of a world-class university prepare these students for successful careers and to meet the challenges of life as it provides them with a dynamic learning and living experience.

The academic talent level of incoming freshmen again reached a new high in Fall 2011, with an average GPA of 4.008 and SAT scores in the 25th and 75th percentiles, at 1220 and 1380, respectively.

This section further highlights why our students are the pride of our university.

“Educated children grow up to join the workforce with good-paying jobs. Because of our investment in education, Maryland has the best-educated workforce in the country.” MiCHAEL E. BUSCH, Speaker, Maryland House of Delegates

THE PRESiDENT’S MANDATE

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MoRE vERSATiLiTY & ACHiEvEMENTS oF oUR STUDENTS

• UMDhasthelargest number of STEM graduates in our state.

• TheChronicle of Higher Education listed the University of Maryland among the nation’s top producers of Fulbright scholars.

• Ateamofengineeringundergradu-ates, the Thirsty Turtles, designed and built a chemically powered model car that won the Mid-Atlantic Chem-E-Car Competition.

• MembersoftheClarkSchool’sTerpsRacing team were the 2011 Sports Car Club of America Solo National Champions in the Formula SAE class.

• AteamofUMDgraduatestudentsfinished in the “final four” in the 2011 Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Competition sponsored by the Urban Land Institute. (More than 160 teams from graduate schools around the country participated.)

iNNovATivE EDUCATioNAL oPPoRTUNiTiES

General Education ProgramThis year, the University of Maryland began implementing its new General Education program, an exciting new college curriculum developed by our renowned and talented professors.

This new curriculum ratchets up basic requirements in math, English, oral communication and analytical skills, while offering the ingenious I-Series courses that invert the traditional peda-gogical pyramid.

This new curriculum is creative yet conservative, imaginative yet practical. It will not only transform undergraduate education at UMD, it could well become a model for other institutions.

Alternative BreaksThis year, 450 students participated in UMD’s Alternative Breaks program, which acts as a catalyst of change in our community and beyond. They made 27 trips to 14 states and seven countries as well as to Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bay region. They have already engaged in 37,000 hours of community service this academic year.

Blended Learning InitiativeIn early 2012, the university launched a new initiative to develop innovative learning opportunities for students. The 10 “blended learning” courses feature a combina-tion of traditional classroom and online interactions, including multimedia data offerings, computer simulations and advanced computerized visualiza-tions. This environment can enhance student-faculty interactions, improve stu-dent learning and use institutional resources more efficiently and effectively.

Living and Learning CommunitiesOur highly regarded living and learning programs allow students with a common interest to share residence halls as well as classrooms and faculty. We offer more than 30 areas of focus, including the lat-est addition:

• Integrated Life Sciences, to engage and inspire Honors College students in all aspects of life sciences and biomedicine.

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship“The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation.” BARACK oBAMA, President, United States of America

The University of Maryland is not just a preeminent university; it is a preeminent innovation and entrepreneurial university.

Innovation is the fuel that fires the economy. It creates jobs, inspires investment and, most importantly, tackles society’s big-gest challenges in health, security, the environment and more.

Entrepreneurial services move new research discoveries to the marketplace, serving society and building businesses. Critical to this process is the culture of entrepreneurship that thrives at the University of Maryland. UMD partners with emerging companies to pioneer new products and to enhance the state’s competitive-ness. This builds Maryland’s economy, creating new jobs and businesses, bringing high-tech jobs into the state and improving lives through scientific advances.


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iNNovATioN AT UMD

UMD is dedicated not only to the dis-semination of knowledge, but to its creation and application. The University of Maryland ranks among the top 10 of all Maryland patent holders.

During the last fiscal year, the Office of Technology Commercialization: • Received 118 invention disclosures.

• Licensed 33 technologies.

• Secured 35 patents for UMD inventions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Innovations by our researchers include:• Creatingwireless technology to

warn officials of impending problems with bridges’ structural integrity.

• Usingvisiblelighttomaketinyintegrated circuits that will allow companies to produce even smaller, faster and cheaper computer chips.

• Harnessingandexploitingthe“self-renewing” and self-assembling properties of viruses to build small, powerful and highly efficient batter-ies and fuel cells.

• Launchingtheworld’sfirstplantfieldguide app. Leafsnap was created in cooperation with researchers at the Smithsonian Institution and Columbia University. It allows smart-phone or tablet users to identify tree species by photographing its leaves, and scientists to better map and monitor the population growth and decline of trees nationwide.

• Producing “digital fingerprinting,” a novel method to authenticate and classify wireless transmissions. It prevents wasteful processing of unintended transmissions and per-mits nodes to quickly authenticate legitimate users and recognize unau-thorized ones.

MtechThe mission of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) is to educate the next generation of technology entrepreneurs, create suc-cessful technology ventures and connect Maryland companies with university resources to help them succeed.

In fulfilling its mission, Mtech this past year: • Offered21entrepreneurshipcourses

with 865 enrollments.

• Launchedanewminorintechnologyentrepreneurship to prepare students for successful technology ventures. The program has already enrolled 65 students.

• Assistedatotalof555companies.

Mtech’s successful partnerships this year have included:• Anewbiopharmaceutical advance-

ment program on the Shady Grove campus helps Maryland companies and researchers develop cell culture- based biopharmaceutical products.

• Pixelligent, a manufacturer of nanocrystal additives used in elec-tronics and semiconductors, which graduated from the Technology Advancement Program incubator, moved into an 11,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and closed a $5.1 million round of funding.

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UMD’S NEw RESEARCH CENTERS

Even in these difficult economic times, the University of Maryland has contin-ued to expand research opportunities. During the past year, we have opened a variety of new research centers including:

• The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESynC)

• The Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI)

• The Maryland Neuroimaging Center

• The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism

• The Center for the History of the New America

• The Center on Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership.

oUR EFFoRTS ARE BEiNG RECoGNiZED

• TheA. James Clark School of Engineering placed 11th in the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities among engineering/technology and computer science schools. Among U.S. public uni-versity programs, the Clark School ranked 8th.

• The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine ranked UMD 18th in the nation for entrepreneur-ship programs for undergraduates and 22nd for graduate entrepreneur-ship programs.

• TheU.S.governmentdesignatedUMD an Intelligence Community

“Center of Academic Excellence”—the first higher education institution in the state and one of only 14 U.S. universities to be selected for the program.

• TheNationalSecurityAgencydes-ignated UMD a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research.

• TheU.S.DepartmentofCommerceawarded a grant to our Urban Studies and Planning Program to develop a detailed “innovation map” that will pinpoint innovation hotspots and future business loca-tions around the state.

PARTNERSHiPS wiTH FEDERAL AGENCiES

Leveraging our location just outside Washington, D.C., the University of Maryland is partnering with federal agencies on many fronts:

• InpartnershipwiththeU.S. Food and Drug Administration, UMD has established the nation’s first International Food Safety Training Laboratory to improve the safety of food imports before they reach the United States.

• UMD’spartnershipwiththeNational Cancer Institute on cancer technolo-gies has been expanded to include graduate students working with the national Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases.

• TheU.S. Army Research Laboratory partnership with the university seeks to bridge the gap from lab to market through the Maryland Proof of Concept Alliance. Among the emerging technologies supported: a graphene replacement for silicon transistors; powerful, ultrathin bat-teries; laser devices that can sniff out dangerous gases over a distance; a new class of antibiotics; and a com-mercial technique for producing biofuels from trash.

NISTThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (nIST) works with industry to develop and apply technology, mea-surements and standards. UMD receives more grant money from nIST than any other academic institution in the United States. These grants include:

• $27milliontoestablishthe Joint Quantum Institute Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology.

• $15millionfortheTechnology Center for Neutron Research.

• $15.5milliontodevelopandimplement a NIST measurement science and engineering fellowship program.

NASA As the fourth-largest academic recipi-ent of nASA funding, the University of Maryland is an active participant in the space program. Highlights include:

• 245activeawardsfromnASA, bringing approximately $190 million in funding.

• 29UMD scientists working at nASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC).

• 12UMD graduate students engaging in joint thesis work with GSFC.

• $37millionfromnASA to allow the dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering to lead a team of univer-sities in developing third-generation reusable launch vehicle technology.

• anASA forum on space technology hosted by UMD last summer.

iNDUSTRY PARTNERSHiPS

• The Maryland Cybersecurity Center has established partnerships with Lockheed Martin, SAIC, Google, Tenable and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In addition, Google has funded a Cybersecurity Seminar Series featuring speakers from indus-try, academia and government.

• The Fischell Department of Bioengineering has signed a three-year contractual collaboration with Canon Inc. to develop a genetic sequencing system for infectious disease diagnosis with initial funding of $1.7 million.

• Thestrategicalliancewith Lockheed Martin is funding research in health-care efficiency, genomics, nanotechnology and logistics.

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Internationalization“By reaching across borders, we can share knowledge and research, generate promising partnerships, and leverage the power of innovation to create jobs and expand opportunity to make our children winners in this changing, global economy.” MARTiN o’MALLEY, Governor, Maryland

The 21st century is the century of the global research university. As the state of Maryland’s foremost global research university, the University of Maryland is expanding our global connections on many fronts.

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EDUCATiNG oUR GLoBAL CiTiZENS

UMD’s international connections prepare our UMD students to become global citizens.

• Lastyear,UMDagainsentarecord1,929 students abroad.

• The global studies minor provides opportunities for students to study how evolving global connections affect the well-being of people throughout the world.

• TheGlobal Communities living and learning program enables students to examine global issues in unique and active ways.

• Theuniversity’sEngineers Without Borders chapter partners with disadvantaged communities in coun-tries including Peru, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Brazil to improve their quality of life through the imple-mentation of environmentally and economically sustainable engineering projects.

• Lastyear,MBAstudentsintheSmithSchool of Business:—sponsored global business projects

in Brazil, China, Japan and Thailand;—interned in Singapore, Taiwan,

Indonesia, Germany and China;—undertook consulting projects in

Uruguay and Sri Lanka.

iNTERNATioNAL PARTNERSHiPS

UMD’s international connections help prepare our students for a world flat-tened by technology. Our international partnerships—now numbering more than 300 in 59 countries—also help con-nect the state of Maryland to the global economy.

RANKiNGS oF iNTERNATioNAL PRoGRAMS

17th in the nation among doctoral/research universities in study abroad.

9th in the nation for short-term study abroad.

5th in the nation among public doctoral/research universities for most Fulbright recipients (19). (The Fulbright Program is our nation’s largest international exchange program.)

3rd nationally among all universities in Bern Scholarships (seven undergraduate) and Fellowships (six graduate) programs.

25th in the nation among colleges and universities producing Peace Corps volunteers.

• UMD’sDingman Center for Entrepreneurship, in partner-ship with Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, hosted the seventh annual China Business Plan Competition, which awards prizes to students who

pitch the best innovative business plan. This year’s winner, a team from Zhejiang University, pitched an electronic cane for the visually impaired that detects obstacles in three dimensions.

iNTERNATioNAL ECoNoMiC DEvELoPMENT

• The Maryland International Incubator has 13 companies, five of which signed on this past year.

• UMDhastwicebeeninvitedtobepart of official state delegations headed by Gov. Martin O’Malley that visited China in August and India in november. These highly successful trips established business, industrial and educational alliances.

• UMDwasawardedacontractfromthe U.S.-Russia Foundation, the largest of four awarded to U.S. universities, to examine university/industry practices in Russia and to develop an entrepreneurship boot camp in Russia.


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nanjing,chinamaster’s in criminology at nanjing normal university

developing a professional master’s of forensic accounting

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suzhouuniversity,chinascHool of public policy master’s program

shanghai,chinajoint researcH projects in cybercrimes

leadersHip training of provincial officials

developing a degree in social work/Human services

hanoi,vietnamprofessional master’s in justice leadersHip

universityofroehampton,unitedkingdomfilm studies faculty interaction

working in conjunction to develop master’s of arts on london witH britisH museum

developing a course on wasHington, d.c., in conjunc-tion witH smitHsonian to include in tHis master’s program

universityoftebingen,germanyresearcH collaboration in neuroscience

universityofcopenhagen,denmarkcollaboration and researcH in agriculture and an excHange of graduate students

saopaolo,brazilcollaboration witH museum of art of sao paulo

chilejoint pH.d. program in astronomy witH pontificial catHolic university

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• TheRobert H. Smith School of Business is partnering with universities in China to offer an Executive MBA degree there.

• TheSchool of Public Policy’s China Program offers the Executive Master of Public Management degree, which has trained more than 200 Chinese government officials from municipal and provincial governments.

• TheDepartment of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the School of Public Policy, at the request of the government of Vietnam, launched a first-of-its-kind mas-ter’s program in justice leadership there.

• TheMaryland China Initiative, one of the premier training sites for Chinese leaders in the fields of public administra-tion, education, environmental protection and economic development, attracted 500 Chinese officials last year.

• TheDepartment of Geography is conduct-ing a Central African research project for the environment, using remote sensing to map land cover in the Congo River basin.

• TheSchool of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation is continuing its work with Italian and other cultural and educational institutions on a major excavation and pres-ervation project in ancient Stabiae (below).


MAKiNG A HEALTHiER MARYLAND

UMD research centers help address our state’s pervasive health problems while serving a vital role in Gov. O’Malley’s quest of making Maryland the premier state for health-care delivery.

During the past year, UMD established:• TheCenter of Excellence in Health

Information Technology Research, an interdisciplinary effort to develop solutions that accelerate and facilitate the transformation of health care.

• TheMaryland Neuroimaging Center, with a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner to support groundbreaking brain research.

PREPARiNG THE TEACHERS oF ToMoRRow

The College of Education is providing the state’s teachers of tomorrow. Highly ranked by U.S. News & World Report, the College of Education:

• Hasfourdepartmentsrankedamong the top 10 in the nation. The Counseling and Personnel Services specialty garnered the no. 1 position for the 12th year in a row.

• Hasestablishedapre-collegepro-gram designed to prepare 11th- and 12th-grade high school students to successfully complete course content, laboratory exercises and introductory undergraduate courses offered in engi-neering and English at Oxon Hill High School in Prince George’s County.

• Hasformalpartnershipswith46Professional Development Schools (PDS) to prepare future teachers. One hundred thirty-five students completed their internships in Prince George’s County.

• HasparticipatedinMultiple Pathways to Teacher certification projects, with 46 graduates in fis-cal 2011, up from 36 students a year earlier. The latest graduates—22 who will teach in high schools and 24 in middle schools—will be eligible for teacher certification in STEM (sci-ence, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields.

THE 21ST CENTURY LAND-GRANT MiSSioN

• TheMaryland Center for Health Equity is conducting the first com-prehensive household survey as part of the Prince George’s County Public Health Impact Assessment. The goal is to gain a deeper understanding of the health status and health-care needs of residents.

• The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology uses advanced technologies to improve transportation, such as the use of a virtual helicopter for real-time traffic monitoring and virtual commute fly-over.

• TheSmall Business Development Center (SBDC) last year assisted nearly 12,000 entrepreneurs and helped businesses secure more than $37 million in loans. Last year, SBDC launched Branch Avenue in Bloom, an innovative, multipartner program to revitalize the area around the naylor Road Metro station and the St. Barnabas Road commercial corridor in Prince George’s County.

• UMD’sNational Center for Smart Growth Research and Education is conducting housing policy research connected to smart growth and sus-tainability in response to Maryland’s and our nation’s significant demo-graphic changes.

• TheSchool of Public Health and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources have developed programs to reach individuals at high risk of obesity through evidence-based, learner-centered lessons and activities. Last fall, the expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program worked with 2,486 individuals and reached 9,566 families with children and 7,756 youths.

• TheFuture of Information Alliance, launched last year, is a transdisci-plinary group spanning the entire university and including founding partners from the federal govern-ment, leading cultural institutions and the private sector. Together, they’re exploring innovative ways to harness information and mapping to improve the lives of Marylanders and make state government more efficient and effective.


IV. Service to the State of Maryland“The state must plan now for what we know will create the technology and research jobs that will power our economy and ensure that Maryland is the place to go to get the best education, do high-end research, spin off research into the marketplace and successfully build a company.”THoMAS v. “MiKE” MiLLER JR., President, Maryland State Senate

Service to Marylanders extends far beyond the classroom with faculty and students serving citizens in health care, housing, food, transportation and the arts, among other areas. Service is part of our university’s land-grant mission and part of our educational process. Using university-based research to advance community welfare benefits all.

AN ECoNoMiC PowERHoUSE

The University of Maryland plays mul-tiple roles in driving the state’s economy. It prepares students for Maryland’s workforce, conducts state-of-the-art research that feeds innovation, commer-cializes technology and partners with federal agencies and private industry on research and entrepreneurial projects. These factors form a powerful nexus of discovery, creation and training. UMD:

• is a $1.7 billion enterprise.

• puts more than $3.4 billion into the state’s economy every year.

• employs12,500people.

• supports23,000jobs.

• bringsinmorethanahalf-billiondol-lars in research funding each year.

For every $1 the state invests in the University of Maryland, the university returns $8 to the state.

The economic impact of Mtech includes:• 7,053jobscreatedorretained

since 1985.

• $383milliongeneratedbyitsManufacturing Assistance Program.

• $3.5billiongeneratedbyitsTechnology Advancement Program (TAP) incubator.

• $24billiongeneratedbyitsMarylandIndustrial Partnerships (MIPS) program.

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Meeting the Challenges of Today

Two major challenges of the 21st century are the environment and national security. The University of Maryland is helping our state and nation in meeting these challenges.

ENviRoNMENT

UMD Is a Green MachineThe University of Maryland has earned a long list of accolades for its commitment to sustainability, from decreasing its carbon footprint to implementing earth-friendly practices across the campus. In the past year, UMD: • wasselectedbytheU.S.Department

of Energy as one of six lead universi-ties for a clean energy business plan competition.

• createdanewCouncil on the Environment to help coordinate the university’s expanding high-level research on global change.

• wasawardeda$5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study with other institutions the relationships of land use, climate and ecosystems in the Chesapeake Bay region.

• wasrankedamongtheTop20“Coolest Schools” by Sierra magazine.

• wasawardedtheNature Climate Leadership Award from the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment.

• wasawardedaNational Science Foundation grant for the Clark School of Engineering, Princeton University and the national Geographic Society to develop high-tech monitoring of endangered species.

• unveiled electric vehicle charging stations.

• unveiledoneofthelargest rooftop solar power systems in Maryland, partnering with Washington Gas Energy Services and Standard Solar.

Saving the Bay The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESynC) will provide leadership in addressing large-scale environmental challenges like clean water, sustainable food production and interaction between human activity and ecosystems. The center is supported by a $27.5 million grant from the national Science Foundation.

Researchers at the University of Maryland have joined forces with local, state and federal agencies in conducting research to restore and preserve the Chesapeake Bay. These efforts include studying ways to:

• improvebluecrabharvestsandtheblack bass population.

• achievenutrientreduction.

• improvethestate’spoliciesonrestora-tion of the Chesapeake Bay and the management of its fisheries, working in partnership with the Maryland

Department of natural Resources and Maryland Sea Grant.

• reducefertilizeruseandnutrientrunoff from home lawns.

• workwithstatelegislatorstodevelopenvironmental legislation to protect the bay.

• improvemarshecosystemsandthecoastal wetlands.

NATioNAL SECURiTY

UMD Is Helping to Secure Our StateFor years, the University of Maryland has partnered with our nation’s military and intelligence agencies in efforts to secure our state. Recently, UMD has become more and more active in another, newer area vital to our national security, cybersecurity.

The Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) was launched in late 2010 and got off the ground in early 2011. It is:

• partneringwith10Marylandcompanies.

• workingcloselywiththeNationalSecurity Agency, the new United States Cyber Command, nIST and the Office of the Governor.

• positioningthestateofMarylandtobe the epicenter for cybersecurity.

• addressingoneofthebiggestthreatsto our nation as stated by President Obama and the Department of Defense.

UMD won the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition supported by the national Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and several industries, including northrop Grumman and Boeing.

The Future of Information Alliance is a new cross-campus initiative to foster interdisciplinary networking, dialogue and research on pressing information-related issues.

Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL)CASL, a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) University-Affiliated Research Center, is a unique partnership between the university and the federal govern-ment. As the largest language research center in the United States, CASL has received millions of dollars from DoD and other sources to research how to drastically reduce the time and cost of training the thousands of professionals who need competence in languages vital to our national security. CASL projects include:

• developingnewtoolsinlanguageidentification and mapping for Pashto, Bengali and Urdu, used widely in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

• producingmachinetranslationtoolsand human training methods for interpreting cyber communications, such as text messages and blogs.

• conductingresearchindivergentthinking to improve human analyti-cal performance in interpreting texts and other source materials.

• usingbrain-imagingtechniques,behavioral testing and mental exer-cises to increase working memory skills in order to expand and enhance the language capabilities of the U.S.

intelligence community and the military.

National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)Last year the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) renewed the status of UMD’s Consortium for START as a DHS Center of Excellence. It provided $3.6 million in federal funding for START to continue to expand the scientific understanding of the human causes and consequences of terrorism, specifically crucial homeland security issues such as terrorist behavior, violent extremism and counterterrorism.

START projects include:• maintainingdetaileddatabasesthat

apply advanced statistical methods in identifying trends and patterns related to radicalization, terrorist operations, counterterrorism and the impact of terrorism.

• usingcomputerizedtextanalytictools for Farsi, Korean, Mandarin and Russian to assess possible behaviors, including personality traits, changes in intent through deception and other psychological responses.

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THE JOURNEY CONTINUES

In my inaugural address last April, I stated that transfor-mative excellence is a journey, not a destination. During the past year, we have made tremendous strides.

We did not do it alone. We at the University of Maryland appreciate the support we have received from Gov. Martin O’Malley and the Maryland General Assembly. We have been spared the massive budget cuts that have been imposed on so many other universities, and we have received the appropriations that have enabled us to continue our upward trajectory.

With your help, the journey will not end here. The University of Maryland will become an even more powerful engine of eco-nomic progress, a more important catalyst of social mobility and a greater beacon of knowledge for students, faculty and the state of Maryland.

Thank you for your support during the past year, and I look forward to working with you in the years ahead as we continue on the journey toward transformative excellence.

wALLACE D. LoHPresident, University of Maryland

oFFiCE oF THE PRESiDENT

1101 Main Administration BuildingCollege Park, MD 20742-5025

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