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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Archives.com, an innovative family history website that makes family history research simple and affordable, has joined in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to provide the public with free digital access to the 1940 Federal Population Census on April 2, 2012. The entire 1940 census is available online today exclusively at 1940census.archives.gov, the official U.S. government website for the...

COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Maryland today announces 28 faculty, student and alumni semifinalist teams for the twelfth annual UMD $75K Business Plan Competition. The competition, fostering university startups for over a decade, has spurred companies such as Squarespace, Lurn, AnthroTronix, Alertus Technologies, RioRey (then MacroPhage), Remedium Technologies, FlexEl, Resensys and Traffax. A record 91 entries poured in this year....

Jose Andres and Zina Kramer are newest members of the board WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Foundation for the National Archives is pleased to announce the election of two new members to its Board of Directors. Jose Andres and Zina Kramer will join the various other civic leaders, acclaimed historians, prominent executives, and community advocates on the board in leading the Foundation in its many educational and development-related initiatives. Their...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Archives.com, the website that makes discovering your family history simple and affordable, has joined in partnership with the National Archives of the United States to provide the public with free digital access to the 1940 Federal Population Census beginning on April 2, 2012. In close collaboration with the National Archives, Archives.com will build a website for researchers to browse, view, and download images from the 1940 Census, the...

Clark School and Savenia Labs Team Up to Empower Consumers COLLEGE PARK, Md., Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering has helped local startup Savenia Labs bring unique energy ratings to consumers of small appliances. Savenia Labs partnered with CALCE to test coffee makers, toaster ovens and microwave ovens, at the CALCE facilities on the College Park campus. CALCE...

With an audience of nearly 1,000 well-wishers looking on, Dr. Nariman Farvardin was inaugurated today as the seventh president of Stevens Institute of Technology. Numerous dignitaries joined the faculty, staff, students, and alumni assembled for Dr. Farvardin’s installation, including Dr. Steven Chu, the U.S. energy secretary, Dr. Jeong Kim, the executive vice president of Alcatel-Lucent and president of Bell Labs, Kim Guadagno, the lieutenant governor of New Jersey, and Dawn...

Advance deepens its presence in Montgomery County as the Terps’ official document solutions provider. Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) October 10, 2011 Advance and the Maryland Terrapins have formed a new partnership that makes the Baltimore firm the Terps’ official document solutions provider for the next three years. “We are excited to welcome Advance to the University of Maryland Athletics family. For nearly 50 years, Advance has been a pillar in the Baltimore community, and...

UMD & ACC Partners Get Three-Year, $360,000 Grant to Spur New Generation of Clean Energy Ventures in Southeast COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Maryland and its Atlantic Coast Conference partners will launch a new, conference-wide Clean Energy Business Challenge in fall 2011, encouraging students throughout the southeastern United States to develop successful business plans and create new clean energy companies. As part of the Obama...

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While the U.S. jobs picture may be bleak, the proliferation of Facebook and mobile technology applications has spawned an entirely new industry - dubbed the "App Economy" -- that has added at least 182,000 new jobs and contributed more than $12.19 billion in wages and benefits to the U.S. economy this year, according to new research from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Using more aggressive...

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- In a continued strategic effort to enrich the experiences of the university's domestic and international constituents and expand the university's global reach, the University of Maryland now offers eduroam, or education roaming, a federated wireless access network. Eduroam is a secure, worldwide roaming Internet access service developed for the international research and education community. Eduroam allows campus community members at...