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The University of Maryland’s Chief Innovation Officer, Julie Lenzer, and UM Ventures’ Senior Innovation Manager, Piotr Kulczakowicz, have authored an article in the new issue of Technology and Innovation, the journal published by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

A $790,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will fund the creation of a new sculpture at the University of Maryland’s David C. Driskell Center and the identification, cataloging, preservation and digitization of prominent archives in the field of African American art.

Evidence suggests that what happens in one generation—diet, toxin exposure, trauma, fear—can have lasting effects on future generations. Scientists believe these effects result from epigenetic changes that occur in response to the environment and turn genes on or off without altering the genome or DNA sequence.