 The
University of Maryland (UM) and the University of Engineering and Technology (UET),
Peshawar (Pakistan), have entered into a five-year academic linkage agreement. The schools
will exchange faculty and students to work on research, teaching and to study. As part of the partnership,
30 professors from UET will be trained at graduate levels at UM. UM President C.D. Mote, Jr.,
Provost Nariman Farvardin and Clark School Interim Dean Herbert Rabin signed
the agreement along with Faqir Syed Asif Hussain, counselor of the Pakistani embassy
in Washington, D.C.
 The first annual workshop of the Energy
Education and Research Collaboration (EERC) between the UM and
the Petroleum Institute of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, was conducted in January.
The workshop reviewed the accomplishments of the EERC’s first year and identified ways
to secure the path and achieve the promise of this broad education and research
collaboration. Pictured right is Mohammad Chooka of UAE and Avram Bar-Cohen, chair of mechanical
engineering.
 UM will be
the home of MAXWell Lab, North America's first, and the world's second, laboratory
dedicated to creating applications for WiMAX, a next generation technology for Web, phone and other
wireless communications. Professor Ashok Agrawala (ECE/University of Maryland Institute
for Advanced Computer Studies), is director of the new lab.
 The Maryland Technology Enterprise
Institute (Mtech), in conjunction with the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), co-hosted the
first ISR Faculty Venture Fair in April. The event, part of the ISR 2008 Systems
Symposium, gave faculty inventors the opportunity to pitch their new technologies to a team of
venture capitalists. The winner was SentiMetrix, a company (founded by V.S. Subrahmanian, professor
of computer science and director of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies) that offers an
innovative technology framework to measure sentiments or opinions expressed in the electronic
media.
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