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bwtech@UMBC
Smiling dignitaries wielding shovels. That was the scene at the groundbreaking ceremony for UMBC's new research and technology park, bwtech@UMBC, last fall. Maryland Governor Parris N. Glendening and Baltimore County Executive C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger joined President Freeman Hrabowski and representatives from campus and industry in digging the first foundation holes for the tech park's first building. (more...)

T.Rowe Price Scholars at UMBC
The Baltimore-based financial management company T. Rowe Price & Associates is building a multifaceted partnership with UMBC, one that ultimately will serve to help build Maryland's technology-related workforce. The company has hired a number of UMBC alumni and became one of the corporate sponsors of UMBC's new Visionaries in Information Technology series. (more...)

Computer Certification Center Opens
To help meet the Baltimore-Washington region's exploding need for qualified IT employees, UMBC embarked on a bold new venture this year with the opening of the Computer Certification Training Center (CCTC), a for-profit initiative that taps private investment and corporate partners to bring UMBC's proven ability in computer training to the marketplace. (more...)

Harnessing NASA Technology to Improve Health Care
In what has been hailed as an "unprecedented" agreement, NASA and StelSys, a UMBC Tech Center start-up company, are defying gravity in hopes of developing life-saving treatments. NASA agreed to license the patents for a microgravity bioreactor, a space-agency invention that simulates the zero-gravity environment of space, for commercial development by StelSys. (more...)

Digimo CEO
Like many UMBC students, Andy Lufburrow has a job that earns him money and keeps him busy between classes. But Lufburrow's work is not your usual off-campus employment. He's the founder and CEO of his own company, Digimo, a web-development firm with a client base of major corporations and headquarters in the UMBC Technology Center. At least it's an easy commute from work to class. (more...)

Ideas in Focus: Visionaries in Information Technology
Bagels and IT proved to be a most stimulating breakfast menu when UMBC inaugurated the first Visionaries in Information Technology breakfast series. (more...)