MAES Accomplishments

Recent MAES accomplishments include:

MAES supported scientists have played a major role in the study of phosphorus enriched soils as a possible source of high phosphorus concentrations in tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. Significant progress has been made in the reduction of phosphorus added to and contained in soils of Maryland. The technologies currently under development may one day lead to effective methods for reducing nutrient concentrations in tributaries and the Chesapeake Bay
Over the past several years, MAES successfully has captured $10 million in special Congressionally appropriated funds for construction of a state-of-the-art research greenhouse complex at UM and for a cooperative transgenic animal research facility at USDA-Beltsville, as well as $4 million to support targeted aquaculture research by scientists throughout the University System of Maryland.
The Maryland Center for Agro-Ecology, Inc., a new private non-profit corporation affiliated with the University of Maryland, was founded and continues to be supported by MAES. The Center is led by a 16 member Board of Directors with Harry Hughes as president.
The College ranks among the top three colleges at the University in licensing technologies resulting from MAES-supported faculty. For fiscal year 2005, the income MAES-supported faculty generated from licenses and patents represents 28 percent of the university's total licensing income.
MAES and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources continue to strengthen linkages and collaborations with other state and federal agencies. One such partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration led to the establishment of The Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, a University-FDA initiative that recently issued its first RFP to support food safety research.

For more information, contact Theresa Simmons

Last updated: 03/10/2009