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University of Maryland School of Public Policy professor, Center for International Security Studies at Maryland Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Maryland Population Research Center Susan Parker has been awarded an R21 grant for approximately $424,000 over two years from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to study effects of the rollback of a successful conditional cash transfer (CCT) program in Mexico. 

It’s hard to envision a time when computers didn’t more or less disappear into beige office landscapes or pile up, obsolete in closets like increasingly ancient geological strata. The technological behemoths that Franz Klein works with, however, still evoke a twinge of dawn-of-the-space-age wonder.

Michel Cukier, professor of reliability engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD), is co-PI on a $9 million, multi-institutional National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that supports research on the technical challenges involved in software supply chain security, as well as initiatives to foster greater diversity in the software industry.