The University of Maryland, Baltimore County is endowing a new professorship in applied mathematics with help from a state government program.
More than $2 million is being endowed through the Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative (MEI), administered by the Maryland Department of Commerce, which helps spur basic and applied research in scientific and technical fields at the colleges and universities.
UMBC raised $1.06 million in private funding for the Dr. Thomas I. Seidman Endowed Chair in Applied Mathematics, named for a former professor at the university, and Maryland Commerce approved a matching grant of $1 million to support the endowment.
