TO: All Full-time, Tenure-Track Faculty FROM: Philip Rous, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs I am delighted to announce a new joint UMBC-UMB Research and Innovation Partnership Seed Grant Program. This research initiative has been developed in close collaboration with our UMB colleagues with the goal of establishing, enhancing and promoting long-term research partnerships between faculty at UMBC and UMB. The UMBC-UMB Research and Innovation Partnership Seed Grant Program provides research funding of up to $75,000 to be expended over a period of twelve months. All proposals submitted to this program must include at least one PI from UMBC …