Press
Releases
 04/17/08--University of Maryland Hinman CEOs Alumnus Launches Seed Fund for Student Startups
04/07/08--UM, U.S. Senators Barbara Mikulski and Benjamin Cardin Announce Howard Community College Winner of U.S. Senate Productivity Award; Also Name Winners of Maryland Quality Awards
03/24/08--Mtech’s David Barbe Wins Olympus 2008 Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award
03/10/08--Latest Company to Join TAP May Hold Key to Making Low-Cost Ethanol
02/21/08--UM Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program Approves 18 Collaborative Research Projects, Worth $4.4 Million, Between University Faculty, State Technology Companies
01/10/08--Sensing a Bridge Collapse: Company Partners with University of Maryland to Develop Sensors that Monitor Concrete
11/14/07--Pure Plastics Pitch Proves Perfect: Revolutionary, Safe Plastics Technology Behind Best Inventor Pitch for U-Md. Bioscience Day
10/19/07--MIPS Wins National Excellence in Technology-Based Economic Development Award from State Science and Technology Institute
10/16/07--Potential Breakthrough Cancer Treatment Emerges from MIPS-Funded Clinical Trial Teaming CSA Medical Inc. and University of Maryland Researchers
10/11/07--University of Maryland Hillman Entrepreneurs Program Unveils New Center for Students
09/25/07--Donor to Student Entrepreneurs: Dream Big But Benefit Society
09/20/07--MTECH, Hinman CEOs Cited in Fortune Small Business Magazine’s Top Programs for Undergrad Entrepreneurs
09/19/07 -- University of Maryland Hosts Inaugural Angel Investing Event for Distinguished Alumni
09/12/07 -- Jim Chung Named Director of MTECH VentureAccelerator
08/13/07 -- MIPS Announces 23 Research Projects, Worth $3.6 Million, to Help Maryland Companies Develop Commercial Products
08/09/07 -- Maryland Technology Extension Service Offers State Companies Free Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Assessments
07/19/07 -- Paul Allenza Appointed Director of Biotechnology Research and Education Program
06/19/07 -- Found: The Perfect Strawberry Plant
06/14/07 -- Mobile Digital Systems Inc. Tests New Video Surveillance System with CALCE through MIPS Funding
06/12/07 -- Dean Chang Named Director of MTECH Ventures
04/30/07 -- MTECH Ventures Announces Winners of the University of Maryland $50K Business Plan Competition
03/28/07 -- From Dreams and Sweat: University of Maryland Announces Finalists for its $50K Business Plan Competition
03/15/07 -- MIPS Companies Sweep Greater Baltimore Committee’s 2007 Baltimore Region Bioscience Awards
03/12/07 -- U.S. Senators, Maryland Performance Excellence Awards Program Announce High-Performing Organizations in Maryland
03/05/07 -- MIPS Announces 28 Research Projects to Help Maryland Companies Develop Commercial Products
12/27/06 -- Astrox Corporation, Clark School Researchers Demonstrate Supersonic Combustion for a Hypersonic Space Plane Through MIPS
12/12/06 -- MTECH Ventures Announces Executive Education Program
11/13/06 -- University of Maryland, Pharad Developing System to Detect Weapons in Open Spaces
10/24/06 -- MTECH Ventures Hosts University of Maryland Technology Start-Up Boot Camp
09/26/06 -- Searching for an Unfriendly Face: UM, ACAGI Inc. Developing First Portable Video System to Recognize Terrorists
09/19/06 -- Joint MTES/MDE Program Wins National Pollution Prevention Award
09/18/06 -- Hillman Gift Creates Unique MTECH Ventures – Prince George’s Community College Partnership in Entrepreneurship Education
09/12/06 -- Look Out Fire...You're on Camera: axonX, University of Maryland to Validate Advanced Video Fire Detection System
08/17/06 -- Trufina, an MTECH Ventures Company, to be Featured on CBS Early Morning Show
08/15/06 -- Macronetics Inc. Joins MTECH Ventures Portfolio
08/14/06 -- Curing What Can’t Be Cured, Seeing What Can’t Be Seen: 23 MIPS-Supported Research Projects, Worth $4.5 Million, Explore Realms of Possibility
08/09/06 -- UM to Manufacturers: Innovation’s Not Just for the Big Guys
07/27/06 -- MEDIA ADVISORY -- Teens Unveil Dream Products at University of Maryland
05/18/06 -- MIPS Program Gets $1 Million State Boost
04/07/06 -- University of Maryland $50K Business Plan Competition Winners Announced
03/28/06 -- Health Care Organization, Microwave Filter Producer, Nursing Home, School District Named Top Performers in Maryland
02/27/06 -- Micro Helicopters, Targeted Cancer Therapies and New Cell-Phone-Based Shopping Offered by Semifinalists in UM $50K Business Plan Competition
02/08/06 -- University of Maryland Bio Facility to Assist BioFactura in Developing Smallpox Therapy
01/31/06 -- New Cancer Test, Arthritis Treatment, Digital Forensic Tool Among 14 New University of Maryland MIPS Research Projects
12/21/05 -- MIPS, Maritime Applied Physics Corp. to Enable Passenger Ferries to Sail From Baltimore to Eastern Shore Again
10/20/05 -- UM Technology Start-Up Boot Camp to Help Faculty and Students Bridge Gap Between Ideas, Commercial Ventures
8/22/05 -- UM, Atlantic Biomass to Make Fuel from Agricultural Byproducts
7/28/05 -- MIPS Announces 15 Research Projects Teaming
Maryland Companies and University Faculty
7/18/05 -- Groundbreaking Legislative Impact Analysis Tool
Featured in New Potomac Publishing Service
6/30/05 -- MTECH Announces New Program to Help Faculty and Students Launch Companies
6/30/05 -- MTES Helps Tanglewood Conservatories Transition From Builder to Global Manufacturer
6/20/05 -- Connolly Highlights MIPS as a Novel Model for Linking Business and Academia at World’s Largest Biotechnology Event
6/10/05 -- TAP Director Testifies Before Congressional Committee on How to Bridge the Gap Between Inventors and Commercial Enterprises
5/25/05 -- MTECH Celebrates 20 Years of Pioneering Technology Entrepreneurship and Research Programs
5/11/05 -- Omnia Biologics and University of Maryland Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility Team to Offer Start-Ups Biopharmaceutical Processing and Manufacturing
5/09/05 -- Test2do, ARTKIA Take First Place in University of Maryland $35,000 New Venture Challenge
3/09/05 -- Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program Wins National SBA “Best Practice” Award
2/21/05 -- MIPS, Maryland Companies Award Faculty $3.2 Million To Develop 18 Technology-Based Products
10/22/04 -- Fourth Annual Technology Startup Boot Camp to Teach Faculty, Students How to Launch Their Own Companies
10/01/04 -- UM Bio Lab Unveils Upgrades to Serve Next Generation of Biotechnology Companies
8/12/04 -- Next Generation in Bread Making Will Thin Dieters' Waistlines and Broaden Maryland's Economy
8/09/04 -- MIPS Jointly Awards $7.3 Million for 17 Research Projects to Develop Commercial Products in Maryland
6/2/04 -- Innovative Biosensors Joins University of Maryland's
Technology Advancement Program
5/10/04 -- University of Maryland Business Plan Competition Awards Promising Start-Ups $51,000
3/24/04 -- Knowledge Broadcasting Company Launched by Bell's Great-Grandson Joins UM Incubator
3/08/04 -- Next Generation of Blogging/Internet Publishing Launched by University of Maryland Student
2/19/04 -- MIPS Announces $2.7 Million for Commercially Driven Research Projects Between Maryland Companies, Faculty
1/26/04 -- Successful High Tech Executive Joins UM Incubator Company
12/12/03 -- TAP Graduate AnthroTronix Inc. Named Technology Pioneer for 2004 by World Economic Forum
12/5/03 -- Two Teams with Hinman CEOs Students, One Fostered in Tech Ventures Course Capture Top Slots in Undergraduate Business Plan Competition
12/1/03 -- Former Washington Post Company Vice President and Publisher Joins UM Incubator Company
10/24/04 -- 20 Venture Capitalists, IP Lawyers, Marketing Experts, Entrepreneurs to Teach Faculty and Students How to Start their Own Companies
7/31/03 -- Martha Connolly Named Director of the University of Maryland's Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program
7/24/03 -- International Business Incubation Conference Coming to Maryland
7/23/03 -- MIPS Awards $1 Million for Research with Maryland Companies
6/26/03 -- University of Maryland Entrepreneurship Pioneer Named Educator of the Year
6/17/03 -- Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility Receives $775,000 Grant from State of Maryland to Upgrade Purification Capabilities, Make Other Enhancements (State of Maryland release)
6/17/03 -- Incubator Company of the Year Award Marks $3 Million, Pivotal Year for DataStream
6/09/03 -- Garrett County Manufacturer Pioneer Conveyor Poised to Capture Fortune 500 Market with Improved Mining Roller
5/12/03 -- Six Technology Start-Ups Awarded $50,000 in University Business Plan Competition
11/06/02 -- A Distaste for Noise: How the Inventor of Pulse Doppler Radar and the University of Maryland Could Revolutionize Communications
10/29/02 -- Hinman Program Lands Award, Recognized as National Leader in Entrepreneurship Education
10/14/02 -- The Engineering Research Center's Programs Outpace its Name: the ERC is now the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (MTECH)
10/05/02 -- MEDIA ADVISORY -- University of Maryland Hosts "Boot Camp" to Teach Faculty and Students How to Start Their Own Companies
6/19/02 -- Incubator Companies Get Expert Business Assistance from MBA Students in New Internship Program at Maryland
6/17/02 -- Two University Start-Ups Receive Maryland Incubator Companies of the Year Awards
3/07/02 -- Young Innovators Win $50,000 In Second Annual University of Maryland Business Plan Competition
3/01/02 -- MEDIA ADVISORY -- University of Maryland Entrepreneurs Compete In $75,000 Contest
11/01/01 -- New Hybrid Engine, Antibiotic Substitute for Chickens, Ground-Breaking Drug for Pulmonary Diseases Highlight New University/Industry Projects
8/02/01 -- Top Industry Analyst and Consultant for IBM, Microsoft Comes to Maryland for Two-Day Workshop
2/22/01 -- Maryland Asks its Students: "Got an Idea for a Company?" |
