Bowie State University, Morgan State University, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore are endowing new professorships with help from a state government program.
The funds are provided 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.
Bowie State University received $500,000 from Commerce to continue support for an endowed chair of Cybersecurity and director of the Center of Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies. Morgan State University received an award of $767,004 from Commerce to support the Google Endowed Chair of Computer Science in Artificial Intelligence. The University of Maryland, Baltimore received $1,000,000 from Commerce to establish the Edward and Jennifer St. John Endowed Professorship in Translational Biomedical Engineering and Innovation at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Each grant was matched by qualified funds provided by the universities.
