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COLLEGE PARK, MD – Jennifer Funn has been named the director of the Baltimore region Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at the University of Maryland. The new region will provide services to businesses and entrepreneurs in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. The center is one of 6 that manage numerous service locations throughout the state. As the director, Ms.

Fischell Department of Bioengineering Assistant Professor Huang Chiao (Joe) Huang is working to harness the power of light to improve the efficacy of anticancer drugs used to treat pancreatic and ovarian cancers.

Singing is a particularly efficient way to fill the air with tiny, floating particles containing the virus that causes COVID-19, new research by present and incoming UMD faculty has found. Talking and singing appear to spread COVID-19 far more effectively than simply breathing, according to a new study whose authors include current and future University of Maryland researchers.