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Associate Professor Ming Hu will join the nation’s top minds in science, technology and engineering as a 2022-2023 Jefferson Science Fellow for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Hu is one of 14 scholars to be part of the program’s 19th class, which was established in 2003 by the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State. Fellows builds STEM expertise within the U.S. Department of State and the U.S.

The Center for Research in Extreme Batteries (CREB) has received a cooperative agreement (CA) totaling $9 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) - $8.55M will go to the University of Maryland (UMD) and $450K goes to Argonne and Brookhaven National Laboratories – to advance transformational army batteries.  

Two University of Maryland professors are among 28 distinguished scholars and writers today named 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellows, an honor that comes with a $200,000 award.