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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.

"This groundbreaking is the culmination of many years of persistence and patience," said UMBC Research and Technology Park Executive Director Ellen Wiggins.

It's appropriate that bwtech@UMBC's first building will house the Latitude360 Applied Technology Laboratory, whose president is David Yager, UMBC visual arts professor and former director of the UMBC Imaging Research Center. Latitude360 is a division of RWD Technologies, headed by Robert W. Deutsch, a member of the UMBC President's Board of Visitors.

"From the start, we've had a mission to bring together the best minds from the world of academia and research to address the needs of real-world companies," said Yager, who expects to tap the talents of UMBC student interns as well as faculty in creating visual-based information technologies.

Companies such as Latitude360 and RWD Technologies "understand the strategic value of locating at a business-friendly research university," Wiggins adds. To learn more about bwtech@UMBC, visit www.umbc.edu/bwtech/.

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