USM Foundation News

UMD Project Helps D.C. Students Build "Sci-Dentities"

UMD researchers are encouraging inner-city students in D.C. to create superhero identities, write science fiction-inspired stories, and make videos and graphic novels, all incorporating…

Coppin State University Celebrates the Life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rep. Donna Edwards is scheduled to deliver keynote address

Alumnus returns to UMES to direct online learning

Jan. 8, 2014 - Robin Hoffman has been appointed the director of the Center for Instructional Technology at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.Full Article...

Bowie State production heads to regional competition

Students could advance to national contest at the Kennedy Center

Arming the Immune System to Fight Cancer

UMD assistant professor Christopher M. Jewell has been awarded a three-year, $375,000 research grant to support the pre-clinical development of a cancer vaccine technology.

Undergrads Discover Rare Eclipsing Double Asteroid

UMD students in an undergraduate astronomy class have made a rare discovery: a previously unstudied asteroid is actually a pair of asteroids that orbit and regularly eclipse one another…

SU Nursing Offers CareFirst Graduate Student Scholarship

Bioentrepreneurship Leader Joins UM Ventures Team

University of Maryland Ventures (UM Ventures) announced today that Dr. Martha J. Connolly has been named director of bioentrepreneurship.

PRMC pharmacist named interim dean of UMES’ pharmacy school

Jan. 6, 2014 - Dr. Dennis Killian, pharmacy director at Salisbury’s Peninsula Regional Medical Center, begins a new chapter in his career today at University of Maryland Eastern…

UMD to Collaborate on Unmanned Aircraft System Research

The Federal Aviation Administration has selected the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership as one of six unmanned aircraft systems test sites to support integration of UAS into the national…