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MARYLAND IS #1 SOLAR DECATHLON TEAM IN AMERICA
The team also won the BP Solar People's Choice Award on Saturday. The Terps amassed the most votes as the favorite of visitors to the Decathlon site over nine days. The Terps also captured the title of People's Choice two years ago in the previous Decathlon. In other contests at the event, the UM team took first place in the National Association of Home Builders' Marketing Curb Appeal contest and also was recognized by the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers for "Integration for Renewables for Sustainable Living." At a separate event, the Potomac Valley chapter of the American Institute of Architects gave the team its Advancement of the Art and Science of Architecture Award. For more information, visit: http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/undergradexp/release.cfm?ArticleID= AMERICA'S BEST COLLEGES FOR ENTREPRENEURSFortune Small Business magazine names UM to a Top 25 ranking for budding entrepreneurs. "If you are looking to immerse yourself in entrepreneurship, this school [University of Maryland College Park] is among the best. It has fostered the discipline with weekly pitch meetings and a roster of entrepreneurs-in-residence who get to know the students in informal settings. The University of Maryland knows that mentoring is most meaningful when it's private and low key". The magazine also named College Park a top 25 university for undergraduates stating "students get schooled in fundamental economic and finance in its fellows program, run by the Smith School of Business, and its boot camp, run by the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Clark School). Free to all students, the Start-Up Boot Camp is an intensive, one-day workshop and networking event that focuses on launching new ventures. The university's Hinman Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities (CEO) program brings students from across the campus to live and work together in the eDorm, which provides the communications technologies they'll need to build their own businesses. Student CEOs have access to desktop videoconferencing and multimedia messaging—not to mention the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in residence". For more information, visit: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fsb/0708/gallery.bestcolleges_ http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fsb/0708/gallery.bestcolleges_ http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/bestcolleges/2007/mbas/index.html UM GEOGRAPHY PROFESSOR AND CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENTIST DEFRIES WINS 'GENIUS AWARD'The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today named Ruth DeFries, a University of Maryland professor who studies how humans are transforming the Earth's surface, as one of its 24 MacArthur Fellows for 2007. DeFries will receive $500,000 in "no strings attached" support over the next five years. DeFries, who has a joint appointment in the Department of Geography and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, and the other new fellows "were selected for their creativity, originality and potential to make important contributions in the future," according to a foundation news release. DeFries is an environmental geographer who explores the relationship between the Earth's vegetative cover, human modifications of the landscape, and the biochemical processes that regulate the Earth's habitability, using both satellite data and field work. For more information, visit: http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=1505 MARYLAND SCIENTISTS AIM AT THE MOONAmerica is headed for the moon again, and Maryland scientists will be in the vanguard of the effort. NASA has chosen research teams from the University of Maryland, College Park and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt to work on ideas for upgrading instruments that Apollo crews left behind in the lunar dust. Two other scientific proposals from area institutions—a small radio telescope array from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, and a Goddard instrument to measure X-rays were also selected. The four were picked from among 75 ideas submitted for funds to begin concept development. ... Teams based at UM College Park and Goddard each have different ideas for improving the way lasers are used to measure the distance from Earth to the moon. Either would provide new insights into the moon's structure and natural history, and the fundamental nature of gravity itself. But it will be up to NASA to choose between them or combine the best ideas of both. For more information, visit: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/ideas/bal-id.te.moon07 DRISKELL CENTER OPENS DOORS TO NEW SPACE
The David C. Driskell Center celebrates the legacy of David C. Driskell—Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Art, Artist, Art Historian, Collector, and Curator—by preserving the rich heritage of African American visual art and culture. Established in 2001, the Center provides an intellectual home for artists, museum professionals, art administrators, and scholars of color, broadening the field of African diasporic studies. The Driskell Center is committed to collecting, documenting, and presenting African American art as well as replenishing and expanding the field. | ||||||
University of Maryland architecture and engineering students received high honors Friday October, 19th on the National Mall, capturing second place in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon—an international competition encouraging students to build and design innovative homes that fully utilize solar power. 
Expansive
in Scope and ambition, the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the
Visual Arts and Culture of African American and the African Diaspora at
the University of Maryland opened its doors in a new space last month
prepared to fulfill its mission of education and exploration.