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Conservation Criminology for a Troubling Trade
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, is one of Africa's fastest-growing cities, but the trade in meat poached in rural areas is more closely linked to this and others urban areas than previously understood, new UMD-led research has found. (Photo by Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Richard Bell Awarded a Carnegie Fellowship
University of Maryland Professor of History Richard Bell, an expert of early American history and slavery, abolition and resistance, has been named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The philanthropic organization awarded the 26 new fellows $200,000 each to fund significant research and writing in the social sciences and humanities that address important and enduring issues confronting society.
Gabriel, Brubaker developing game theory water market models for river users
With funding from the National Science Foundation, two University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering researchers are building game theory-based water market equilibrium models to help improve water use in the watersheds of the Anacostia River in Maryland and D.C., and the Duck River in Tennessee.
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$2.3M in State Grants Awarded to UMD-Affiliated Innovation Projects
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Groundbreaking Plasma Innovation Shines as Top Invention of the Year
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