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$4.2M USAID Grant Supports Researcher Tackling Terror Threat in Northern Ghana
While global patterns of terrorist attacks show a decline since 2016, such violence has been on the rise in parts of West Africa, said John McCauley, an associate professor in the University of Maryland Department of Government and Politics: “Terrorism is anything but getting better in this particular part of the world.”
ArtIAMAS Receives Third-Year Funding of Up to $15.1M
The University of Maryland’s (UMD) five-year ArtIAMAS (AI and Autonomy for Multi-Agent Systems) cooperative agreement with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has received third-year funding of up to $15.1M. Professor Derek Paley (AE/ISR), the director of the Maryland Robotics Center, is the lead researcher for the extensive project.
UMD Professor Honored as Maryland Chemist of the Year
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - On Monday, December 19, 2022, Professor Cheng Gong was awarded the Maryland Section of the American Chemical Society 2022 Chemist of the Year. He is being recognized for “the innovative development of nanosensors based on two-dimensional (2D) quantum materials”.
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10 Faculty Receive UMD Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Awards
