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The University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences will establish the IonQ Professorship with a $1 million gift from IonQ, an industry leader in quantum computing founded in part on discoveries made at the university that's headquartered in the UMD Discovery District.

The state of Maryland’s landmark bill to reform education in public schools has the College of Education’s fingerprints all over it.  Approved by the General Assembly in 2021, the $3.9 billion “Blueprint for Maryland’s Future” will invest in teachers, students and families statewide over the course of 10 years, hiring an additional 15,000 educators and raising the minimum teaching salary to $60,000. 

The intersection of Rhode Island Avenue, Lakeland Road and Navahoe Street in the College Park neighborhood of Lakeland holds two pasts: One is of streetcars and Saturday night socials, corner stores and community parades; the other, of bulldozers, displacement and the erasure of a once-vibrant community.