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Through extensive consultation with our Board of Visitors, faculty, staff and students, we
have developed a wide range of new programs to expand the Clark School's research,
education and entrepreneurship capabilities and create exciting new opportunities for
innovation. (Listed below are four primary examples.) Some of these programs are
already in progress with some degree of support; some need start-up funding; some are in
the planning stages.
With the creation of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and the Robert
E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices, through the $31 million gift of Robert E.
Fischell and his family, we have added a complete undergraduate bioengineering
curriculum to the existing graduate program and established bioengineering as a major
area of interest and expertise on campus. We encourage those with a strong commitment
to health and health care to offer their ideas for further advancing this important new
capability, which holds such promise for students, the school and society.
More Information on the Fischell Department of Bioengineering
The Clark School provides students excellent advising, academic support, internship, co-op, international studies and recruitment services, plus specialized support for minority
students and women. Yet we do so under conditions that ultimately limit our
effectiveness, providing services in a variety of locations that are not easy to find and
utilize, do not encourage cross-program communication and do not welcome corporate
visitors. With funding from the Great Expectations campaign, we will create a new
Engineering Student Services Center, a physical space that will unify and facilitate
interaction among all existing programs, provide new programs to foster improved
writing and speaking skills, and deliver a higher level of assistance to students and
employers.
More Information on the Student Services Center
Brian Hinman's gift to establish Hinman Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities
(Hinman CEOs) has created one of the nation's top entrepreneurship education and
support programs for undergraduates, with new companies founded every year. We seek
to build and enlarge upon our success by creating a new Center for Technology
Entrepreneurship that will not only provide additional resources for Hinman CEOs
students, but also extend the program to graduate students. Support for the center will
enable more entrepreneurial students to stay in Maryland and build their companies here,
creating new jobs and opportunities for years to come.
More Information on the Center for Technology Entrepreneurship
The Clark School has established research programs in a wide range of energy topics,
from solar cells and hydrogen fuel cells to nuclear power. We are now building the cross
disciplinary University of Maryland Energy Research Center, supported in part by gifts
from the Great Expectations campaign, to focus and carry forward exciting energy
research and education programs. A gift to the Energy Center through the Great
Expectations campaign will help us devise cost-effective alternative energy solutions for
Maryland, the United States and the world.
More Information on the Energy Research Center
To learn more about opportunities to advance the work of the Clark School, and to discuss your own ideas and plans, please contact Stu Stabley at 301-405-8289 or support-clarkschool@umd.edu.
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