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 The University of Maryland is launching the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center to develop novel policy solutions for today’s most pressing environmental challenges. Principally funded by a $27.5 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation, the multidisciplinary center will bring together the expertise of environmental, social, and computational scientists, engineers, economists, public policy experts and others from around the world, including the Clark School.
 The University of Maryland has created a new Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation, funded by an initial $1 million grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The center will focus on modernizing and improving the ways drugs and medical devices are reviewed and evaluated. William Bentley, the Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor of Engineering and founding chair of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, and James Polli, the Shangraw/Noxell Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, are co-principal investigators on the initiative.
 The University of Maryland Cybersecurity Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory have announced a new strategic relationship in cybersecurity. The three-year partnership agreement will focus on collaborative research, student engagement and the development of innovative security technologies. In all, approximately 60 UM faculty researchers, including several from the Clark School, are applying their expertise in a variety of critical areas related to cybersecurity, including information assurance, wireless and network security, cryptography, software security, and threat analysis and quantification – all areas of mutual interest for MIT Lincoln Laboratory and UM.
By bringing together military service officers and engineering and science researchers in a pilot program this summer, the Clark School and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have taken a first step toward developing a new method for revolutionizing future defense technologies – a method based on the interaction of people who normally work from different agendas and perspectives. The pilot program supported four postdoctoral researchers as DARPA Academic Fellows. They spent three months full-time at DARPA interacting with their counterparts from the military, called DARPA Service Chief Fellows, as well as with DARPA program managers; they also visited current DARPA technology performers (academic and industrial labs).
Energy research and policy leaders from the government, academia and industry gathered for the grand opening of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center's new facilities in September. The facilities are located in a freshly-renovated wing of the Engineering Lab Building and were funded in part by the Department of Energy.
The Clark School has established Virtus: A Living-Learning Community for Success in Engineering, which focuses on male engineering students. The initiative will promote community among first- and second-year engineering students and provide support for academic and professional success.
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