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Eight professors from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) and University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), four from each university, have been chosen as the inaugural MPower Professors. This award from the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower) recognizes, incentivizes, and fosters collaborations between faculty in Baltimore and College Park.

As part of its ongoing commitment to assist those who have proudly served our country, the Maryland Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network is waiving all training costs for veterans through 2022.   "Veterans and their families have sacrificed so much to make the American dream available to others," says Paul Bardack, SBDC executive director. "It's time for the SBDC to redouble our efforts to make the American dream available to them too."    

David Sicilia has published a new book, Strands of Modernization: The Circulation of Technology and Business Practices in East Asia, 1850-1920 (Japan and Global Society) with the University of Toronto Press, a leading academic publisher of books on East Asian history. The book is co-edited with David G. Wittner.