LaMaster named Executive Director of University of Maryland: MPowering the State

BALTIMORE, Md., March 7, 2014 — The Steering Committee of The University of Maryland, MPowering the State has named Teresa LaMaster, JD, MA, executive director, MPowering the State.  In this newly created position, LaMaster will work to advance the  growing educational and research collaboration between MPower’s two partner universities, The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), and The University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP).

Teresa LaMaster, JD, MALaunched in March 2012, MPower has developed many fruitful collaborations, providing enhanced educational opportunities, strengthening research programs, accelerating commercialization of scientific advances, and creating new jobs.  Just a few of these include:

“In less than two years we have shown how productive our partnership can be,” says UMCP President Wallace D. Loh, PhD. “As MPower continues to expand, the need for greater leadership to coordinate our efforts becomes even more critical.”

“Teresa’s long list of accomplishments over eleven years in leadership positions at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law speaks volumes about her ability to forge relationships and lead teams to achieve mutual goals,” says UMB President Jay A. Perman, MD. “Under her guidance, I expect our MPower initiative to yield even greater success.”

Prior to joining UMB in 2003, LaMaster worked as a business and intellectual property litigator in private practice with the firms Miles & Stockbridge, P.A., and Bowie & Jensen, LLC. At Carey Law, she has served as the managing director of its nationally recognized clinical law program, associate dean for institutional advancement, and associate dean for planning and external affairs. She worked with two law school deans to lead the highly successful $50M Making an Impact Campaign and secure the law school’s $30M naming gift from the W. P. Carey Foundation.  Most recently, she helped develop MPower’s program for legal education in College Park, the nascent Agriculture Law Education Initiative, and plans to institute a master of science in law program. In addition to her new role with MPowering the State, LaMaster has been appointed as advisor for institutional effectiveness to the chief operating and chief research and academic officers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

 

MPowering the State is already producing important educational and economic impact in Maryland,” says LaMaster. “I am thrilled by the opportunity to help MPower produce even more and deeply honored by the trust placed in me by these two great universities.”

About MPowering the State 

The University of Maryland: MPowering the State brings together two universities of distinction to form a new collaborative partnership.  Harnessing the resources of each, the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore will focus the collective expertise on critical statewide issues of public health, biomedical informatics, and bioengineering. This collaboration will drive an even greater impact on the state, its economy, the job market, and the next generation of innovators.  The joint initiatives will have a profound effect on productivity, the economy, and the very fabric of higher education.

 

Contact:

Crystal Brown (UMD)                              Alex Likowski (UMB)

301-405-4621 crystalb@umd.edu            410-706-3801 alikowski@umaryland.edu