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Testimony March 2005 Home > Fulfilling the Mandate > Quantity and Quality <- You Are Here
Quantity and Quality Continued

  • In January we also celebrated the largest research award in history by the U.S. Department of Agriculture when it provided $5 million to the "Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in the U.S." research project led by Dr. Daniel Perez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary Medicine and in the VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Perez will work with scientists and others in 17 states from California to Massachusetts to prepare for responses to avian flu outbreaks, be they caused by natural circumstances or terrorist attacks.

  • The Department of Homeland Security has also funded the Center for Agrosecurity and Emergency Management, led by Robert Halman, which will work mainly with the Maryland Department of Agriculture and Maryland Cooperative Extension.

    University of Maryland faculty compete successfully at the highest levels for federal grants and foundation awards. Their research is also at the forefront in fields such as nanotechnology that will be the basis of tomorrow's technological advances. Some of our major grant awards in 2003-2004 highlight the range of agencies and foundations supporting Maryland initiatives on behalf of the State.

  • Drs. Ichiro Takeuchi, Gary Rubloff (Materials Science and Engineering) and Ellen Williams (Physics) were awarded $750,000 in July 2004 by the W.M. Keck Foundation to establish the W.M. Keck Foundation Laboratory in the Kim Engineering Building, which will be a highly featured part of the Nanotechnology Center.

  • A. J. Clark School of Engineering faculty secured a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award of $5.25 million for five years, beginning May 1, 2004, from the Army Research Office to carry out research on "Micro Hovering Air Vehicles: Revolutionary Concepts and Navigational Advancements." This is a collaboration between the University of Maryland, the Australian National University and North Carolina A & T University. Centeye Inc. and Athens Technologies are commercialization partners at no cost to the program.

  • The University of Maryland, College Park, and the Naval Weapons Surface Center at Indian Head have signed a new $10 million, five-year cooperative activity contract, beginning August 2004, in support of the Center for Energetic Concepts Development (CECD). The Director of CECD is Professor Davinder K. Anand, Mechanical Engineering.

  • The University of Maryland and UCLA were named in May 2004 as joint leaders of a Department of Energy Fusion Science Center, using facilities at both universities with total funding of $6.4 million over five years. The UM Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling is the lead, with participation by Princeton University, MIT, and the University of Michigan. They will study the interaction of microscale and macroscale dynamics in plasma physics.

  • In April 2004, Maryland Cooperative Extension, received $2.6 million from the U.S. EPA for a project, "The Mid-Atlantic Regional Water Quality Coordination Program."



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