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The strategic partnership has fostered hundreds of collaborations that are growing Maryland’s innovation economy, advancing interdisciplinary research, and addressing the most critical issues.
The University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower) combines the extraordinary resources of the state’s largest public research engines — the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) — to strengthen and serve the state of Maryland and its citizens.
Since its creation in 2012, MPower has fostered hundreds of collaborations that are growing Maryland’s innovation economy, advancing interdisciplinary research, increasing educational benefits, and addressing the state’s most critical issues.
You can find the 2021 brochure summarizing MPower’s achievements here.
The brochure is being released just a few weeks after the University of Maryland achieved its highest ranking ever in the National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development survey, placing 14th overall nationally and eighth among all public universities in research and development spending for Fiscal Year 2019. For the first time, UMB and UMCP were linked together as one research enterprise in the ranking, with combined research expenditures of $1.1 billion.
The strategic partnership between UMB and UMCP paved the way for this recognition, which reflects the University of Maryland’s national standing as a powerful and flourishing research engine.