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CREB Receives $9M Cooperative Agreement
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 Professors Named Andrew Carnegie Fellows
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.
Can a Strategy Game Help AI Learn to Spot Scammers?
The online version of the classic board game Diplomacy, reportedly favored by John F. Kennedy, Henry Kissinger and Walter Cronkite, is serving as a fun testbed for University of Maryland computational linguists developing a new way to fight a serious and costly cybersecurity threat.
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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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