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  • $6M in Grants Support Work to Create Biofuels, Bioplastics From Food Waste

    Up to one-third of the Earth's food is never eaten, but two new projects by a University of Maryland environmental science and technology researcher (below) seek to turn this waste into marketable biofuel and bioplastic projects. From leftovers neglected in the fridge until they go bad to crops that spoil because of faulty storage, a shocking one-third of the world’s food—nearly 1.5 billion tons yearly, according to a United Nations estimate—goes uneaten.

  • NSF Awards UMD, Partners $4M to Expand National High School Engineering Program

    New funding from the National Science Foundation will expand the reach of Engineering for US All, a program to make engineering accessible in high school launched by UMD President Darryll J. Pines in 2018.

  • NSF Grants for Adam Liter and Maria Polinsky

    Congratulations to Adam Liter and to Maria Polinsky, whose work has earned new support from the National Science Foundation.


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Veteran Scientist, Administrator Named Vice President for Research for University of Maryland’s Joint Research Enterprise

Pat O’Shea to Oversee Annual $1.4B in Research Activities at College Park, Baltimore Campuses
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