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Five UMCP-UMB Collaborations Awarded MPower BHHP Grants
The Brain Health and Human Performance Initiative (BHHP), part of the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State, is pleased to announce the award recipients for its 2021 seed grant program.
Expanding the Scope and Possibilities of Genome Editing and Engineering
New publication in Nature Communications offers patentable tools to improve the efficiency of food production
Can Machine Learning See Suicide Risk in Social Media Posts?
Linguistics Professor Philip Resnik (below) is testing whether machine learning could help uncover messages and subtle cues in social media postings that could indicate a user is at risk of committing suicide, giving mental health professionals a new tool to monitor patient well-being. (Illustration by Stocksy) Amid the poorly lit food pictures, duck-lipped selfies and political disinformation that swamp social media, imagine something else: a hope for saving lives.
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New President’s Public Impact Award Presented to Plant Virology Expert
Faculty Honored With Independent Scholarship, Research and Creativity Awards
