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University of Maryland Launches National Network to Tackle Small Business Displacement
College Park, Md.—The University of Maryland’s National Center for Smart Growth (NCSG) has received a $3 million philanthropic investment from JPMorgan Chase to create a national “community of practice” to prevent the displacement of small businesses in rapidly gentrifying U.S. metropolitan areas.
Maryland Joins NSF-funded Effort to Help Set Nation's Direction for Engineering
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering today launched the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA), a national collaborative designed to help determine future engineering research priorities to meet the country’s emerging needs. The University of Maryland (UMD) is a founding ERVA partner through the Big Ten Academic Alliance. Darryll J. Pines, UMD president and immediate past dean of UMD’s A.
UMD Libraries, Others Partner on $750K to Archive Social Justice Activism by College Students of Color
African American students demonstrate against the Vietnam War on the steps of the Main Administration Building in the early 1970s. A new grant will help the University of Maryland and other institutions digitally archive documentation of student activism by people of color.(Photo courtesy of University Archives)
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