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Inter-American Defense Board Uses ICONS Platform for Disaster Response Exercise
This month, the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) conducted a disaster response planning exercise based on its Mechanism for Cooperation in Disasters (MECODE) using the ICONSnet simulation platform run by START’s ICONS Project.
MSE Prof. Liangbing Hu Granted $5.6M in DOE ARPA-E Funding
The University of Maryland (UMD) and UMD start-up, HighT-Tech, announced receipt of a total $5.6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding is part of the ARPA-E OPEN 2021 program, which prioritizes funding technologies that support novel approaches to clean energy challenges. The selected projects will advance energy storage and catalysis technology respectively.
Gene Editing Breakthrough in Ticks to Help Combat Lyme Disease
Collaborative research involving scientists from the University of Maryland (UMD) led to a discovery that could decrease the public health threat of tick-borne diseases like Lyme.
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10 Faculty Receive UMD Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Awards
UMD Celebrates 10 Years as Top-10 School for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
