$27.5M Fed Award Launches National Center to Synthesize Shared Environmental Solutions

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The University of Maryland is launching a cutting edge research center to develop novel policy solutions for today’s most pressing environmental challenges. Principally funded by a newly announced $27.5 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation, the multidisciplinary UMD center will bring together the expertise of environmental, social, and computational scientists, engineers, economists, public policy experts and others from around the world. The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, known as SeSynC, will be home for collaborative