24 July

Iconic Civil Rights Group Honors Esserman With Award

Published 7/23/18 in UMB News  As a young girl, Ambassador Susan G. Esserman, JD, founder and executive director of the University of Maryland Support, Advocacy, Freedom and Empowerment (SAFE) Center for Human Trafficking Survivors, was inspired by the work of the Southern Christian …

02 July

Cool Digs: Inside the redeveloped Lion Brothers Building

Published 7/2/18 in the Baltimore Business Journal The Lion Brothers Building, once home to an embroidery company, has now been transformed into a modern and flexible workspace for students, entrepreneurs and employees in Southwest Baltimore. Cross Street Partners redeveloped the historic …

14 June

People recall information better through virtual reality, says new UMD study

Published 6/13/18 on EurekAlert! University of Maryland researchers conducted one of the first in-depth analyses on whether people recall information better through virtual reality, as opposed to desktop computers UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND IMAGE: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND RESEARCHERS CONDUCTED ONE OF THE FIRST IN-DEPTH ANALYSES ON …

24 April

Perman, Hogan Laud Tech Transfer Efforts

Published 4/23/18 on UMB News President Jay A. Perman, MD, described a successful focus on technology transfer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) as he joined state officials and representatives of federal laboratories and private industry at the 2018 Maryland Technology Transfer …

10 April

UM Carey IP clinic partners with area law firms

Published 4/9/18 in the Daily Record Five area law firms are joining forces with the intellectual property clinic at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, the school announced Monday. The school’s Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic expanded …

20 March

How Augmented Reality Will Make Surgery Safer

Published 3/20/18 in the Harvard Business Review By Sarah Murthi, MD, Amitabh Varshney MARCH 20, 2018 Some of the biggest medical advances of the last few decades have been in diagnostic imaging—ultrasonogaphy, mammography, computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and so …