The National Science Foundation awarded a $3.45 million grant to the University of Maryland to expand research as part of the NSF's innovation program, said university Associate Vice President for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Dean Chang.
The grant, part of the NSF's I-Corps Nodes program, is intended to promote the growth of research and entrepreneurship so that it may be applied on a larger scale, said Chang, the grant's recipient. The grant is slated to go into effect in the beginning of 2017, Chang said.