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The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering today launched the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA), a national collaborative designed to help determine future engineering research priorities to meet the country’s emerging needs. The University of Maryland (UMD) is a founding ERVA partner through the Big Ten Academic Alliance. Darryll J. Pines, UMD president and immediate past dean of UMD’s A.

African American students demonstrate against the Vietnam War on the steps of the Main Administration Building in the early 1970s. A new grant will help the University of Maryland and other institutions digitally archive documentation of student activism by people of color.(Photo courtesy of University Archives)

A new study by geographical sciences researchers reveals that the South American continent lost 20% of its natural ecosystems since 1985—equivalent to 21.6 soccer fields of natural land being degraded or converted by human activity every single minute for more than three decades.