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Undergrads Goldman and Chen Selected as NCMR Scholars
August 22, 2006

Marc Goldman

Two ECE undergraduate students have been selected as National Consortium for MASINT Research (NCMR) Scholars, a Defense Intelligence Agency program that encourages future scientists to consider technical careers in intelligence.

Marc Goldman, a senior who works in the Computational Sensorimotor Systems Laboratory with Associate Professor Timothy Horiuchi  (ECE/ISR), received a $10,000 scholarship, while Eric Ying-Che Chen, a senior who has conducted research in Assistant Professor Pamela Abshire's (ECE/ISR) Integrated Biomorphic Information Systems Laboratory, received $5,000. Chen, who is also majoring in computer science in addition to electrical engineering, and Goldman both recently participated in the MERIT Summer Research program. Chen shared first prize for his research at

Eric Chen

the MERIT Summer Research Fair on August 11.

The NCMR program provides cutting-edge research to the intelligence community. (MASINT is an acronym for measurement and signals intelligence). The NCMR scholarship funds assist promising undergraduate juniors and seniors with tuition, textbooks, room and board. The awards are for full-time students who are U.S. citizens, and are based on academic merit in selected disciplines.

Dr. Abshire, who is the principal investigator for a current NCMR research project titled "Integrated Transduction, Actuation, and Control for Cell-Based Sensing," managed the University of Maryland area of the program this year. She and Dr. Horiuchi nominated the two students.


For more information, contact Director of Public Relations Ted Knight at 301-405-3596, or teknight@umd.edu.


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