MPower Maryland

University of Maryland Strategic
Partnership: MPowering the State

MPower Announces New
Health Computing Institute

University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing to open in Montgomery County in 2023.

The Power in Placebo

MPower Professor Dr. Luana Colloca Discusses How Placebo Helps the Brain Heal the Body

University of Maryland Ranks in
Top 10 for Research

New Layer

Founder of UM Center for Human Trafficking
Survivors Named "Local Hero"

Susan Esserman Receives Honor During Human Trafficking Awareness Month

University of Maryland Strategic
Partnership: MPowering the State

The partnership’s most recent achievements can be found in this annual update.

University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State

The University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower) is a collaboration between the state of Maryland’s two most powerful 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 from across both institutions that are growing Maryland’s innovation economy, advancing interdisciplinary research, increasing educational benefits, and addressing the state’s most critical issues.

The partnership is delivering on a vision of collaboration, innovation, and transformative impact across Maryland. Working together, UMB and UMCP achieve INNOVATION and IMPACT through COLLABORATION.

145

Startups Launched
Since 2011

Inventions Licensed
to Companies (FY22)

#10

Among All Public U.S. Research Universities for Research and Development Spending (FY21)

$1.3B

In Research and
Development Awards (FY22)

Implementation of the Strategic Partnership Act of 2016

The University of Maryland Strategic Partnership Act of 2016 strengthened and formalized the structured relationship between UMB and UMCP, which began in 2012. The law deepens the alliance and energizes UMB and UMCP to pursue even greater transformative change and impact, far surpassing what each institution could do independent of each other.

In addition to formalizing the structure, the law led to more alignment and coordination, and created two new centers based at UMB and UMCP: the Center for Maryland Advanced Ventures and the University of Maryland Center for Economic and Entrepreneurship Development.

Download FY2022 Annual Reports here.

Our Initiatives

MPower invests in signature initiatives to drive research, academics, economic development, and public service. View All

Seed Grants

MPower Professorship

The University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing

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UM Ventures

UM Scholars

Agriculture Law Education Initiative (ALEI)

Center for Maryland Advanced Ventures (CMAV)

Quantum Chip, Joint Quantum Institute, Kollar Group.

The UM Center for Economic and Entrepreneurship Development (UMCEED)

Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR)

MLAW: Undergraduate Programs in Law

Support, Advocacy, Freedom and Empowerment (SAFE) Center for Human Trafficking Survivors

Opioid Use Disorders Research Collaboration

Leidos Innovation Lab Student Competition in A. James Clark Hall.

Bioengineering Academic Programs

Policing Partnership: Master of Professional Studies in Public Safety Leadership and Administration

Maryland Blended Reality Center

Master of Science in Law Program

Center for Health-Related Informatics and Bioimaging (CHIB)

Maryland Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (M-CERSI)

Health Informatics and Data Science Specialty for Undergraduates

School of Social Work at Shady Grove

Maryland Cochlear Implant Center for Excellence

Center for Brain Health and Human Performance

Leadership

The University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State promotes innovation and impact through collaboration between the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). The two campuses leverage their considerable strengths to attract exceptional faculty, to better serve students, and to position the state in a new economy. The task of achieving these actions as well as realizing the full potential of the partnership is the responsibility of the Joint Steering Council, whose members have been appointed by the two presidents.

The Joint Steering Council reports to the presidents, who have dual authority for resource allocation and oversight over the partnership’s projects and programs. The Presidents report progress and activity to the Chancellor of the University System of Maryland (USM) and to the USM Board of Regents.