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Mtech Press Releases

02/09/12 — University of Maryland Expands Lineup of Spring Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competitions
02/08/12 — $4.1M in Technology Projects Approved by Mtech Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program
01/12/12 — UMD Hillman Entrepreneurs Program Named Finalist for National Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Awards
12/08/11 — ACC $100K Clean Energy Challenge Open for Business (Ideas)
11/30/11 — UMD Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program Students Join White House 'I Am an Entrepreneur' Event
11/25/11 — UMD's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program Named Finalist for National Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Awards
11/04/11 — White House Recognizes Mtech's David Barbe as Champion of Change
11/02/11 — Mtech's David Barbe Receives 2011 Innovator of the Year Award from The Daily Record
09/28/11 — DoE Selects UMD as One of Six Lead Universities For National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition
09/21/11 — Mtech's Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program Wins Excellence in Economic Development Award from the International Economic Development Council
08/10/11 — 15 Technology Product Development Grants, Worth $4.2M, Approved by Mtech Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program
06/16/11 — UM EIP Student Wins Prestigious Fulbright Summer Institute Scholarship at Roehampton University in the U.K.
06/10/11 — Mtech's Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) Program Wins Maryland Economic Development Association 50th Anniversary Economic Impact Award
06/06/11 — Mtech TAP Company CosmosID™ Wins Best Life Sciences Company in the Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Awards
05/09/11 — Mtech Announces Winners of the 2011 University of Maryland $75K Business Plan Competition
04/29/11 — FounderCorps Members Coach University of Maryland $75K Business Plan Competition Finalists
04/05/11 — Mtech Announces Finalists for University of Maryland $75K Business Plan Competition
04/05/11 — Hinman CEOs Company MyFridgeRental.com Wins University of Maryland Cupid's Cup Business Competition
03/08/11 — Mtech Announces Semifinalists for the University of Maryland $75K Business Plan Competition
02/17/11 — 16 Technology Product Development Grants, Worth $3.7M, Approved by Mtech Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program
01/19/11 — Mtech's Dr. James V. Green Wins 3E Learning Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Competition
10/07/10 — AccuStrata Inc. Receives $432K Phase II NSF Grant
10/05/10 — Craig Dye Named Director of Mtech VentureAccelerator
09/28/10 — New Mtech Manufacturing Consulting Director to Companies: Succeed by Creating High-Value Products and Services Worth the Cost
09/08/10 — Mtech/UM Startup OmniSpeech LLC Wins $50K SAIC-VentureAccelerator Competition
08/26/10 — Two Mtech Hinman CEOs Companies, Squarespace and Lurn, Named to Inc. 500 List for Second Straight Year
08/25/10 — Mtech Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility to Double in Staff and Size, Expand to Shady Grove, Create Pilot Plant for Biofuels in College Park
08/12/10 — Mtech's Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program Awards 16 Tech Product Development Projects Worth $3.3M Teaming Companies, Faculty
08/03/10 — Mtech TAP Incubator Graduate Paice LLC, Toyota Reach Settlement on Patent Disputes
07/28/10 — Hinman CEOs Student Greg Waldstreicher Named One of the Top Five College Entrepreneurs of the Year by Entrepreneur Magazine
07/22/10 — Mtech/UM Company OmniSpeech LLC Wins StartRight! Women’s Business Plan Competition
07/14/10 — Jay Smith Named Inaugural Director of the University of Maryland's New Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program
06/17/10 — Mtech/University of Maryland Company FlexEl LLC Wins Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Award
06/03/10 — Four Mtech/University of Maryland Companies Named Finalists in the 2010 Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Awards
05/27/10 — Energy Dense Power Systems Enters into Strategic Partnership with Stanton Park Group
05/10/10 — University of Maryland $75K Business Plan Competition Winners Announced
05/06/10 — Mtech Announces New Warren Citrin Graduate Fellowships in Sustainability
04/27/10 — Maryland Biotechnology Center Supports $270,000 in MIPS Projects
04/19/10 — Two Hinman CEOs Students Earn Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
04/06/10 — Mtech Announces Finalists for the University of Maryland $75K Business Plan Competition
03/26/10 — Martha Connolly Receives President’s Award at the Greater Baltimore Committee’s Fifth Annual Bioscience Awards Ceremony
03/25/10 — Tseai Energy Unlimited Named Semifinalist in Dell Social Innovation Competition, Wake Forest Elevator Competition
03/23/10 — AccuStrata Inc. Receives $70,000 EPA Grant
03/23/10 — University of Maryland Manufacturing Assistance Program Helps TIPCO Technologies Enter New Markets, Grab Big New Customers, Reduce Production Errors
03/08/10 — Mtech Announces Semifinalists for the University of Maryland $75K Business Plan Competition
02/23/10 — Tseai Energy Unlimited Solidifies Plans for Pilot Biofuel Plant in Sierra Leone
02/05/10 — Renova Life Inc. Joins Mtech Technology Advancement Program Incubator
02/03/10 — Mtech’s Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program Announces 17 Research Projects Teaming Companies and Faculty to Develop Commercial Products
01/27/10 — Energy Dense Power Systems Joins Mtech Technology Advancement Program Incubator
01/25/10 — Prognosys LLC Joins Mtech Technology Advancement Program Incubator
12/15/09 — AccuStrata Inc. Receives Third Set of Stimulus Funding
11/25/09 — Remedium Technologies Wins Most Promising Security Idea at Global Security Challenge 2009 with Blood-Clotting Foam
10/21/09 — Carolyn Karlson Named Director of Hillman Entrepreneurs
10/15/09 — Venture Capitalists Like the Sound of Cell Phone Technologies Invented at the University of Maryland
09/24/09 — Mtech to Establish Living-Learning Entrepreneurship Program for Academically Talented Freshman and Sophomore Students
09/18/09 — Mtech and RMI Launch Maryland Manufacturing Partnerships Program to Make State Tops in Manufacturing
09/01/09 — Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center Moves to UM
08/27/09 — University of Maryland, Mtech Graduate Lurn Makes Inc. 500 List
07/22/09 — Mtech’s Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program Announces 17 Collaborative Research Projects Between Maryland Companies and Faculty to Develop High-Tech Products
07/07/09 — Coil LLC’s Electric Guitars Leave No Tone Unturned
06/25/09 — University of Maryland Company Trauma Solutions Named Finalist in $250K Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Cisco Systems Global Business Plan Competition
06/17/09 — Mtech Technology Advancement Program Graduate Lurn Inc. Wins Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Award
05/19/09 — Mtech Offers New Summer Online Course in Entrepreneurship
05/18/09 — Mtech Announces New Startup Lab for Entrepreneurs
05/11/09 — Mtech Announces Winners of the University of Maryland $75K Business Plan Competition
04/28/09 — Mtech to Offer Two Summer Entrepreneurship Courses for High School Students
04/07/09 — Mtech Announces Finalists for University of Maryland $75K Business Plan Competition
03/03/09 — Zymetis Inc. Named Top 50 “Cleantech/Greentech” Company
02/04/09 — University of Maryland Announces 17 Research Projects Involving Faculty, Maryland Companies to Develop New Commercial Products
01/12/09 — University of Maryland Startups Resensys, FlexEl Receive $25K Grants from SAIC
11/20/08 — Governor Martin O'Malley Announces Annual $250K Chesapeake Bay Seed Capital Fund Through Mtech
11/17/08 — TAP Graduate Company TRX Systems Wins Global Security Challenge
11/13/08 — Nano-Velcro Sticks with Venture Capitalists: New Biomaterial that Stops Bleeding Wins Professor Venture Fair at U-Md. Bioscience Day
10/09/08 — Providing Power When There is None: Instant Access Networks, Frostburg Faculty Developing Renewable-Energy-Fueled Power Grids Safe From Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks
09/22/08 — TAP Company TRX Systems Named Finalist in Global Security Challenge
09/10/08 — Technology Advancement Program CEO Named One of BusinessWeek.com’s Best U.S. Entrepreneurs 25 and Under
07/09/08 — MIPS Program Announces 22 Research Projects, Worth $3.6 Million, Teaming Maryland Companies with University Faculty to Develop Commercial Products
06/11/08 — Mtech Technology Advancement Program Companies AccuStrata, TRX Systems, Zymetis Win Incubator Company of the Year Awards
05/09/08 — Mtech Announces Winners of University of Maryland $50K Business Plan Competition
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 — University of Maryland Manufacturing Assistance Program 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 ummap/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 — UMMAP 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?"

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