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UMBC works side by side with corporations and foundations
to help them reach their business goals. These partnerships also provide
important resources and opportunities for our students and faculty. Here
are just a few examples of our recent success stories:
- Connecting IBM, Legg
Mason, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, T.
Rowe Price and hundreds of other local, regional
and national employers with well-prepared, highly qualified
recent UMBC graduates;
- Creating innovative research agreements that lower barriers
for companies like Rohm and Haas to
enter into collaborative research agreements with UMBC faculty;
- Designing and delivering custom courses to help T.
Rowe Price train business analysts in requirements management
and project management;
- Developing major new research centers with support
from NASA (UMBC ranks 16th nationally among universities
in NASA funding) and such companies as Northrop Grumman;
- Improving and validating new technologies and
supporting economic growth in Maryland by partnering with emerging
technology companies like Real User, Agnik and Scientific
Products & Systems, to pursue grants through programs
such as the Maryland Technology Transfer Fund and the Maryland Industrial
Partnership Program;
- Providing summer internships for such companies
and organizations as AFLAC, Ameritrade, Amulet
Pharmaceuticals, Black and Decker, Clear
Channel, Inc., Coca-Cola Enterprises, Comcast, Constellation
Energy, Erickson Retirement Communities, General
Electric, IBM Global Financing, Infinity
Radio, Legg Mason, Lockheed Martin, Maryland
Department of Transportation, Morgan Stanley, Northrop
Grumman, Office of Senator Joseph Lieberman, RWD
Technologies, SAIC, T. Rowe Price, United
States Department of the Treasury, Walter Reed Army
Institute of Research, Washington Sports and Entertainment,
and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals;
- Supporting Maryland’s biotechnology community
by conducting collaborative research with companies including Advancis.
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