 The University of Maryland has earned a $15 million award from the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop and implement a national NIST measurement science and engineering fellowship program. Professor Daniel Lathrop (director, Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, physics and geology, pictured) is PI, along with co-PIs Professor and Chair Robert M. Briber (Department of Materials Science and Engineering [MSE]) and Professor Ellen Williams (physics). The new grant was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
 University of Maryland and A. James Clark School of Engineering researchers with sought-after expertise in computational biology, bioengineering, physics and math—including Fischell Department of Bioengineering Professor and Chair William Bentley (pictured)—will participate in the new Collaborative Research and Graduate Partnership Program in Cancer Technology between the University of Maryland and the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The program, only the second of its kind affiliated with the NCI, will send Maryland graduate students to the NCI laboratories in Bethesda, Md., for training and will provide for professional and academic exchanges between university faculty and NCI researchers.
 Research on traumatic brain injury at the Clark School's Center for Energetic Concepts Development (CECD) was jump-started with $75,000 from a collaborative seed grant program between the University of Maryland and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. An additional $1 million comes from the Office of Naval Research and the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division, with other significant federal funding expected in the near future. The CECD held the First Symposium on Cooperative Research on Traumatic Brain Injury earlier this year.
 The University of Maryland has been designated an Intelligence Community "Center of Academic Excellence" by the U.S. government—the first higher education institution in the state to be selected for the program, and one of only 14 universities participating nationwide. The program provides $300,000 dollars annually for up to five years to enhance Maryland's ability to prepare students for government service and leadership positions in the intelligence community. As a Center of Academic Excellence, the University of Maryland will fortify instruction and create new educational opportunities and internships in a broad range of areas, from information and cybersecurity to foreign language acquisition, cross-cultural studies, mathematics, physical sciences and engineering.
 NVIDIA Corp. announced that it has recognized the University of Maryland as a CUDA™ Center of Excellence, placing it in an elite grouping of nine other universities and research organizations worldwide. CUDA™ is NVIDIA's computing architecture that enables its graphics processing units (GPUs) to be programmed using industry-standard programming languages and application programming interfaces, opening up their massive parallel processing power to a broad range of applications beyond graphics.
The University of Maryland was selected for its pioneering use of GPU computing and the CUDA programming model across research and teaching efforts within multiple science and engineering departments.
 Delaware residents can now pay Maryland in-state tuition to earn a bachelor’s degree in MSE at the Clark School thanks to the program's approval by the Southern Regional Education Board's (SREB) Academic Common Market. The SREB Academic Common Market helps students from participating states pursue degrees not offered by public schools in their own states by attending an out-of-state public university that does by allowing them to pay in-state tuition.
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