MPower Professorship
Mission: To recognize, enable, and foster strong collaborations between faculty who work together on the most pressing issues of our time.
2023 MPower Professors Named November 2023.
About
The MPower Professorship recognizes, incentivizes, and fosters collaborations between faculty who are working together on the most pressing issues of our time. To be considered for the MPower Professorship, faculty must demonstrate collaboration on strategic research that would be unattainable or difficult to achieve by UMB or UMCP acting independent of one another and must embrace the mission of MPower — to collaboratively strengthen and serve the state of Maryland and its citizens.
Each professor receives $150,000, allocated over three years, to apply to their salary or to support supplemental research activities. These funds recognize, enable, and support strong collaborations between faculty in the joint research enterprise between UMCP and UMB.
To date, 20 faculty have been recognized for their significant collaborations in the fields of arts and humanities, computer science, dentistry, engineering, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health.
The third, most recent cohort of MPower Professors was awarded on Thursday, November 17, 2023. To learn more about this co-hort and others, click on corresponding link below.
Co-horts
MPower Professor’s In the News:
- MPower Professor Reviews Book on Community Violence Intervention
- MPower Professors Honored in Ceremony
- MPower Professor Studies Influenza through Hotel Experiment
- Researcher of the Year: MPower Professor Dr. Luana Colloca
- NIH to Fund ‘Big Picture’ Look at Substance Use Treatment
- Professor, and Director, Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics at UMSOM David Weber Named Distinguished University Professor
- MPower Professor Recognized as Researcher of the Year by UMB
- Two UMSOP Faculty and Staff Members Receive National Recognition from AACP
- UMCP Chair of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering John Fisher Named 2024 Distinguished University Professor
- N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows
- Professor Chris Jewell Accepts New Position within Fischell Institute
- MPower Professor Named Inaugural Chair of New Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health
- The Neuroscientist Harnessing the Placebo Effect to Help Soothe Pain
