The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) has been named a winner in the first round of the Change and Emissions Management Corporation's (CCEMC)’$35 million international Grand Challenge: Innovative Carbon Uses for its work in using algae to capture carbon dioxide.

Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) graduate assistant Ryan Powell was one of the Final Four competing for a $100,000 grand prize at the $100K ACC Clean Energy Challenge Finals, held at the University of Maryland on March 26, 2014.

The University System of Maryland (USM) Board of Regents has selected two faculty members from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science—Dr. Keith Eshleman and Dr. Andrew Elmore­—to receive the 2014 USM Regents’ Faculty Award, the highest honor that the Board bestows to recognize exemplary faculty achievement. This is the first time that two of the Center’s faculty members have been honored in the same year.

Evamaria Koch, who joined the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory in 1995 as an Assistant Professor, passed away.