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The UMD contingent joining IonQ officials at the New York Stock Exchange Friday for the ceremonial opening bell-ringing included Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel Mike Poterala (left), President Darryll J. Pines, College Park Professor of physics and IonQ co-founder and chief scientist Chris Monroe and Chief Strategy Officer for Economic Development Ken Ulman.

A combination of factors including the current corporate tax rate makes pharmaceutical production in the United States more attractive now than investing in either China or India. And adopting advanced technologies such as Continuous Manufacturing (CM) further positions the United States to recapture a prominent position in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

While a criminologist might analyze broad patterns of carjackings or corporate crime, a new, related research field pioneered by a UMD scientist has her tracking the fate of a sluglike animal swimming off Mexico’s coast. Meredith Gore, an assistant professor of geographical sciences who in 2009 created the concept of “conservation criminology,” worked this summer on the Yucatan Peninsula for her latest study, spurred by concerned local fishing communities and funded by the U.S.