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University of Maryland Professor of History Richard Bell, an expert of early American history and slavery, abolition and resistance, has been named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The philanthropic organization awarded the 26 new fellows $200,000 each to fund significant research and writing in the social sciences and humanities that address important and enduring issues confronting society.

With funding from the National Science Foundation, two University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering researchers are building game theory-based water market equilibrium models to help improve water use in the watersheds of the Anacostia River in Maryland and D.C., and the Duck River in Tennessee.

Sociology Professor Rashawn Ray and colleagues at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill recently received a $160,000 Russell Sage Foundation grant to study the impact of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement on policing reform in the United States.