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MPower Professor Profile: David J. Weber, Ph.D.
In November of 2022, University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) President Darryll J. Pines and University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) President Bruce E. Jarrell named six professors to the second cohort of MPower Professors.
Peter Nemes Receives Prestigious Award for Metabolism Research
Peter Nemes, a professor in the University of Maryland’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named principal investigator (PI) of a new project to better understand how metabolism and gene expression control cell development in animal models.
New Research Report Examines Recent Declines in Giving and Volunteering in America
As the season of giving approaches, it’s a time when many Americans give money and time to help others. Concerningly, as a new research report by the Do Good Institute, funded with the support of the Generosity Commission, describes, the percentage of Americans who volunteer for, and give money to, organizations has frequently declined in the recent past, and not just during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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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