Maryland Department of Commerce Awards $500,000 Grant to Bowie State University

Agency Awards Almost $18 Million to Institutions Across the State

MEDIA CONTACT: David Thompson, [email protected], 301-860-4311

(BOWIE, Md.) - Bowie State University has been awarded a $500,000 grant through the Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Fund (MEIF) to continue support for an endowed chair of Cyber Entrepreneurship and director of the Center of Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies in the Computer Science department. The university matched the $500,000 award in qualified funding.

"Securing critical IT infrastructure is vital to our national security," said Bowie State University Provost Guy-Alain Amoussou. "The endowed chair in Cyber Entrepreneurship and director will advance and promote entrepreneurship and discovery in the cyber space, as well as the creation of a new multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary ecosystem. Combining Bowie State's strengths in cybersecurity and entrepreneurship will solidify the university's leadership role in both emerging areas while paving the way for new business ventures."

The chair and director will support development of an ecosystem for cyber and technology innovators at Bowie State, as well as a growing pipeline of students from traditionally underrepresented communities preparing for leadership roles in the cybersecurity industry.

Maryland's Department of Commerce united with Bowie State University, John Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, the University of Maryland, College Park and Washington College in endowing almost $17.9 million to fund new research professorships. The schools raised $9.1 million in private funding for the positions, and Commerce approved matching grants totaling $8.75 million to support the endowments.

The MEIF is a state program that was created in 2014 to spur basic and applied research in scientific and technical fields at colleges and universities.

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