2016 umd president's testimony to the general assembly

Presented by Wallace D. Loh, President, University of Maryland / february 2016

TESTIMONYto the

MARYLAND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND / 2016 TESTIMONY TO THE MARYLAND GENERAL ASSEMBLY / 1

With strong, continuing support from the General Assembly and Governor Larry Hogan, the University of Maryland (UMD) turned 2015 into a year of record achievement. UMD’s students were the best ever and the most diverse. Graduation rates were the best ever and among the highest in the nation, including for underrepresented minorities.

UMD’s extraordinary faculty and staff set a record for research funding, raising $550 million. Their work broke new ground in many fields and produced new technology.

UMD set a record for fundraising in a single year: $201 million. Lured by UMD’s growing stature and strategic leadership, private real estate investment in College Park reached unprecedented levels.

New strategic partnerships strengthened UMD’s comprehensive excellence, including a joint high-performance computing center with Johns Hopkins University and the state. The MPower collaboration with the University of Maryland, Baltimore thrived. A pivotal alliance with Washington, D.C.’s Phillips Collection will raise UMD’s eminence in the arts, turning a great STEM institution—noted for its science, technology, engineering and mathematics—into a great STEAM university.

Thank you for your unwavering support. Together we will continue to excel in 2016.

Sincerely,

WALLACE D. LOHPresident, University of Maryland

A RECORD YEAR

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PERFORMANCE

RECORD SETTING

UMD’s highest-ever…

GRADUATION RATE (SIX-YEAR)

86.4% 12TH-HIGHEST AMONG

U.S. PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES

EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING

$550 MILLION

PHILANTHROPIC GIFTS (SINGLE YEAR)

$201 MILLION

FRESHMAN CREDENTIALS

4.2 MEDIAN GPA

1315 MEDIAN COMBINED SAT

FRESHMAN DIVERSITY

44.1% MINORITY

25.6% UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIES

FALL 2015 ENROLLMENT

27,443UNDERGRADUATE

10,697GRADUATE

COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN

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Successful Outcomes

92% OF UMD GRADUATES HAVE A

JOB WITHIN SIX MONTHS OR

PURSUE ADVANCED STUDIES

7,166 BACHELOR’S DEGREES

2,562

MASTER’S DEGREES

654DOCTORAL DEGREES


U.S. News & World Report’s Best Schools • #19 among U.S. public institutions

(“Best Colleges”)• 23 programs with top 10 rankings

(“Best Colleges”)• #16 among U.S. public institutions

(“Best Global Universities”)

Academic Ranking of World Universities (by Shanghai Jiao Tong University)• #14 among U.S. public institutions

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine• #7 “Best Value” among U.S. public

colleges (in-state)

Business Journals• #8 among U.S. public institutions

U.S. College Scorecard • Top 15 among public institutions

with high graduation rates leading to high incomes (U.S. Department of Education)

Princeton Review/Entrepreneur Magazine• #10 in the U.S. for undergraduate

entrepreneurship

Nature Index Global• #14 among U.S. public institutions for

research productivity

STEM Degrees• One-third of UMD bachelor’s degrees awarded are in STEM disciplines. • UMD produces about one-quarter of all Maryland STEM degrees (the most in state).

DiversityUMD received national commendations in 2015 for diversity and inclusiveness:• INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine honored UMD with a Higher Education Excellence

in Diversity Award;• Education Trust recognized UMD as a national leader for high graduation rates of

underrepresented minorities;• Campus Pride recognized UMD as a Top-25 LGBTQ-friendly institution.

As student activists raised issues of diversity and inclusion on many U.S. campuses, UMD began a series of frank dialogues that will expand in 2016.

parren mitchell

UMD named its Art-Sociology building for Parren J. Mitchell M.A. ’52, the first African-American student to take classes on campus and earn a graduate degree from UMD, and the state’s first African American elected to Congress.

UMD RANKINGS

The achievement gap declined to 5.5% for African Americans and 6.0% for Hispanics.


3 NOBEL LAUREATES

6 PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS

52 NATIONAL ACADEMIES

MEMBERS

20 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF

ARTS AND SCIENCES MEMBERS

2 NATIONAL MEDAL

OF SCIENCE RECIPIENTS

1NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY

AND INNOVATION RECIPIENT

BY THE NUMBERS

Mohammad Hafezi

PEOPLE

Distinguished University Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Eugenia Kalnay (right) and UMD President Wallace D. Loh were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Faculty Recognition • President Obama awarded Robert E. Fischell M.S. ’53, a UMD

bioengineering professor of the practice and university benefactor, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the top U.S. technology honor. • The Society of Professional Journalists

awarded Philip Merrill College of Journalism Dean Lucy Dalglish its highest professional honor for extraordinary contributions to the profession.

• The National Academy of Inventors named professors John S. Baras (electrical engineering) and Benjamin A. Shneiderman (computer science) 2015 Fellows.

• English Professor and author Maud Casey received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

• Assistant professors Mohammad Hafezi (electrical and computer engineering), Vladimir Manucharyan (physics) and Jacob Bedrossian (mathematics) were each awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for promising early-career scientists.

Robert E. Fischell

Maud Casey

Lucy Dalglish

John S. Baras

Benjamin A. Shneiderman

Vladimir Manucharyan

Jacob Bedrossian


Student Recognition • College of Agriculture and Natural Resources students took

top honors for a third straight year in the national Sports Turf Management Association Student Challenge.

• For a second consecutive year, a School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation student team won the Urban Land Institute’s Hines Urban Design Competition.

• UMD student teams won NASA’s 2015 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkage engineering design competition.

• UMD engineering students won a second consecutive gold medal at the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition.

• UMD students won the Environmental Protection Agency’s Campus RainWorks Challenge for their design of U.S. water infrastructure.

UMD students organized Technica, an “all-ladies” hackathon, which brought 400 girls and women to campus for a marathon session of computer programming. In addition, the second annual Terp-run Bitcamp drew 1,110 students for a 36-hour binge of software and technology creation.

Alumni Distinctions• Retired U.S. Army Capt. Florent Groberg ’06 (right) received the

Medal of Honor from President Obama for gallantry and self-sacrifice in Afghanistan.

• Beth Stevens Ph.D. ’03, a Harvard Medical School neurologist, was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.”

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MAJOR NATIONALAWARDS

9

BOREN SCHOLARSHIPS CRITICAL FOREIGN LANGUAGES

4

GOLDWATER AWARDS ADVANCED STUDY IN SCIENCE,

ENGINEERING AND MATH

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HOLLINGS SCHOLARSHIPS NATIONAL OCEANIC AND

ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

SCHOLARSHIP SUCCESS


ECONOMIC IMPACT

$3.16 BILLION

ANNUAL ECONOMIC IMPACT ON STATE

$33.9 BILLION

REVENUE: 30-YEAR IMPACT OF FIRMS

SUPPORTED BY UMD’S MTECH VENTURES

8,000 JOBS: 30-YEAR

IMPACT OF FIRMS SUPPORTED

BY UMD’S MTECH VENTURES

SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTER

FY15

2,692 SMALL BUSINESSES SERVED

$48MILLION

TOTAL LOANS SECURED

FOR SMALL BUSINESSES

175 NEW BUSINESSES LAUNCHED

843

JOBS CREATED

IMPACT

RESEARCH AWARDS TOTAL $550,384,756

RESEARCH EXPENDITURES $457,189,965

NON-FEDERAL AWARDS

$167,156,210

69.6%

30.4%

FY15

FEDERAL AWARDS

$383,228,546

BY THE NUMBERS


RoboticsComputer scientists Yiannis Aloimonos (right), Cornelia Fermüller and Don Perlis are developing “common-sense” robots that can learn by watching videos and process information more like humans.

Remote SensingUsing satellite imaging, UMD geographical sciences researchers Do-Hyung Kim, Joseph Sexton and John Townshend upended conventional wisdom and found that tropical forest loss is intensifying.

U.S. firefighters battling wildfires will get a clearer view of threats with a new satellite-based detection tool developed by geographical sciences researcher Wilfrid Schroeder.

Energy CellsChunsheng Wang, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have devised a groundbreaking aqueous lithium-ion battery that eliminates fire and pollution hazards while equaling the performance of regular lithium-ion cells.

Wang and fellow engineering researchers Eric Wachsman and Liangbing Hu are developing solid-state battery technology that beats lithium ion batteries for safety, performance and cost.

VIRTUAL/AUGMENTED REALITY SURGERYAmitabh Varshney, director of UMD’s Institute for Advanced Computing Studies, is working with doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center to revolutionize surgery with augmented and virtual reality. Students will get immersive 3-D views of rare surgeries, while surgeons will have virtual “windows” inside patients.

Medical DevicesW. Rance Cleaveland, a computer science professor, is part of a multi-institutional team developing a “CyberHeart”—a digital simulator to test the performance of implantable cardiac devices.

Digital HumanitiesAn interdisciplinary team is conducting research, education and training to apply the digital humanities to African-American historical and cultural studies, funded by a $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.


INNOVATION

FACULTY INNOVATIONS INCLUDE THESE 3 UMD INVENTION OF THE YEAR WINNERS:

Javier Atencia-Fernandez (bioengineering) for a groundbreaking bacteria detection method for testing complex food samples

Gary Rubloff (materials science and engineering, Maryland NanoCenter) and Sang Bok Lee (chemistry, biochemistry) for a revolutionary, high-energy density nanopore battery

Min Wu (electrical and computer engineering, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Institute for Systems Research) for technology to verify the source of video streams using Electric Network Frequency (ENF) signals

UMD TECH COMMERCIALIZATION

PRE-PATENT DISCLOSURES 167

U.S. PATENTS ISSUED 44

STARTUP LICENSES 5

AGREEMENTS 26(INCLUDING SOFTWARE EVALUATION)

INCOME $1,255,803(INCLUDING PATENT REIMBURSEMENT)

ACADEMY OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

STUDENT INVOLVEMENT 12,339 40% OF TOTAL UNDERGRADUATES IN 2014–15

MakerBot Innovation CenterUMD opened the Baltimore-Washington region’s first large-scale, 3-D printing innovation facility (above)—the first Big Ten Conference university to do so.

Startup ShellThe student-run incubator has generated more than 60 startups in three years, including firms focused on financial literacy, 3-D medical modeling and organic coffee.


Innovation DistrictUMD’s innovation ecosystem is growing along Baltimore Avenue, anchored by the Hotel at the University of Maryland. It will include conference space, makerspaces, flexible space for startups and mature businesses, and a “food hall” (above and left) offering international cuisines.

The four-star Hotel at the University of Maryland (above), which is being built with private funding, will open next year, stimulating real estate development and the arrival of new amenities in the city.

$750MILLION

IN NEW PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN

THE CITY OF COLLEGE PARK IN

THE PAST THREE YEARS

43,000SQUARE FEET

OF FLEXIBLE MEETING SPACE IN

THE HOTEL AT THE UNIVERSITY

OF MARYLAND

BY THE NUMBERS

GREATERCOLLEGE PARK

UMD incubator-graduate FlexEl, adding 60 jobs that would have gone to Virginia

Startup Shell graduate Immuta, a growing data management firm

TalkLocal, founded by alumni, which connects consumers with local service firms via a mobile app

New Companies Recruited to College Park

UMD, IN COLLABORATION WITH PRIVATE

INVESTORS AND LOCAL OFFICIALS, IS

TRANSFORMING COLLEGE PARK INTO

A TOP UNIVERSITY TOWN AND ECONOMIC

DEVELOPMENT CENTER.


STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

Advancing UAS Research UMD expanded activity at its Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) research facility in St. Mary’s County, partnering with: • Google to test its UAS;• the U.S. Navy and Patuxent

Partnership on research and STEM education; and

• the Department of Homeland Security on countering unmanned aerial vehicles.

Uber and UMD forged a partnership to foster, support and advance student-driven innovations and technology. The company is investing in the student-run Startup Shell, a co-working space and incubator. They will award grants to student-created companies and will engage students in business competitions.

With state funds, UMD and the Johns Hopkins University built the Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center, a joint facility to support advanced research and big data analysis.

In 2015, UMD forged a partnership with Washington, D.C's renowned Phillips Collection of impressionist, modern and contemporary art. The institutions will operate an arts study center together, provide joint courses, co-sponsor cultural events and jointly raise funds to build an open storage facility in College Park.


SERVICE TO THE STATE

• UMD’s National Center for Smart Growth helped create Baltimore’s first comprehensive regional plan for sustainable development.

• UMD’s Terrapin Teachers partnered with local schools to develop a pipeline of public school STEM teachers.

• The DeVos Institute of Arts Management launched a training and consultancy program to help 20 arts and culture organizations in Greater Baltimore.

• UMD transportation researchers are developing personalized, real-time travel information for commuters.

• U.S. Economic Development Administration University Center, a partnership with Morgan State University, analyzed economic development in Allegany County, Baltimore’s Carroll-Camden Industrial Area and Anne Arundel County’s National Business Park.

The Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS) connected hundreds of UMD students and faculty with officials in Salisbury, Frederick, College Park and, most recently, Howard County to address their environmental and economic challenges.

The Maryland Center for Health Equity’s Health Advocates In-Reach and Research (HAIR) program promoted colorectal cancer screenings through Prince George’s County barbershops and beauty parlors.

The Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute marked 85 years of training the state’s first responders.

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Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station

University of Maryland Extension

Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute

Maryland Small Business and Technology Development Center

STATEWIDE FOOTPRINTFROM VITICULTURE, AQUACULTURE AND CROPS TO

DRONES, SMALL BUSINESSES AND FIRST RESPONDERS,

UMD’S IMPACT REACHES EVERY COUNTY IN MARYLAND.

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