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October 2-8 is Mental Illness Awareness Week. MIAW is a time to learn about serious mental illnesses such as major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

“It’s time to make a difference through dialogue about mental illness throughout our community.”

One in four adults experiences a mental disorder in any given year. One in 17 adults lives with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, major depression or bipolar disorder. And in America, more people die by suicide (50% more) each year than by homicide.

Treatment works—and saves lives.

Learn more about mental illness and support, education and advocacy to improve the lives of individuals affected by serious mental illnesses at www.nami.org.

In addition, the UMBC Counseling Center will be hosting National Depression Screening Day on Wednesday, October 2nd from 11am-2pm.  Stop by the UHS Retriever Wellness Expo on Commons Main Street (http://my.umbc.edu/groups/healthed/events/18296)!

UMBC cyber incubator expansion attracts regional entrepreneurs

Executive director Ellen Hemmerly leading the cyber charge at Baltimore County tech park

Joanna Sullivan

Editor-in-Chief- Baltimore Business Journal

How can you tell Maryland is becoming a hotbed for cyber security business?

Ellen J. Hemmerly said it’s obvious from the companies looking into University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s technology incubator.

“We’re attracting not only local and regional entrepreneurs,” Hemmerly said. “We’re getting more and more inquiries and tenants from out of state.”

Hemmerly, executive director of bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park, is busy overseeing a 3,500-square-foot expansion of the CyberHive incubator. The $300,000 addition gets christened on Sept. 27, the same day the incubator celebrates three graduates of its Cync program, AccelerEyes, Five Directions and Oculis Labs. The Cync program is a partnership between UMBC and Northrop Grumman Corp.

The 10,000-square-foot CyberHive currently has 26 companies that lease dedicated space. The addition will enable another five companies that can lease space and about 20 more affiliate companies that can use shared space, Hemmerly said. The new space includes conference rooms, a coffee lounge, a public co-working space and five dedicated incubator lab spaces.

She said many incubator companies wanted space to meet and greet UMBC students and professors.

“We wanted to have a place where it was conducive to those kinds of introductions so they can do more active collaboration,” Hemmerly said.

Tenants pay about $750 a month for dedicated space. Affiliates pay about $325 a month. Included in the price — free coffee, water and maybe some snacks.

“We’re going to bring more to the table for affiliates,” she said.