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Name Contact  Title Phone E-mail
Academy for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (AETL) Denny Gulick

Chair, 2007-08

301-405-5157 dgulick@umd.edu
Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center for Education and Research (AGRC) Inderjit Chopra Director 301-405-1122 chopra@umd.edu
Anthropology of Pfiesteria Project, The Michael Paolisso Principal Investigator 301-405-1432 mpaolisso@anth.umd.edu
Arabidopsis thaliana Research Initiative at the University of Maryland (ATRIUM) Caren Chang Director 301-405-1643

carenc@umd.edu
Archaeology in Annapolis Mark Leone Director 301-405-8767 mleone@anth.umd.edu
Auditory Neuroethology Lab ("Batlab") Cynthia Moss Auditory Neuroethology Lab 301-405-0353 cmoss@psyc.umd.edu   
Bridge Engineering Software Center (BEST) Chung C. Fu Director 301-405-2011 ccfu@umd.edu
Campaign Assesment and Candidate Outreach Project, The Paul Herrnson Director 301-405-4123 pherrnson@capc.umd.edu
Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families Patrice Pascual Director 301-699-9336 ppascual@umd.edu
Center for Addictions, Personality and Emotion Research Carl Lejuez Director 301-405-5932 clejuez@psyc.umd.edu
Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) Michael Pecht Director 301-405-5323 pecht@umd.edu
Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL) Richard Brecht Executive Director 301-226-8801 rbrecht@umd.edu
Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT) Philip Tarnoff Director 301-403-4619 tarnoff@umd.edu
Center for Agricultural and Natural Resource Policy Loretta Lynch Director 301-405-1290

llynch@arec.umd.edu
Center for American Politics and Citizenship (CAPC) Paul Herrnson Director 301-405-4123 pherrnson@capc.umd.edu
Center for Applied Policy Studies Brian Darmody Director 301-405-1990 bdarmody@umd.edu
Center for Assessment Validity & Education (C-SAVE) Rebecca Kopriva Director 301-405-3624
Center for Astronomy and Space Physics (CASP) Lee Mundy Director 301-405-1529 lgm@umd.edu
Center for Auditory and Acoustic Research (CAAR) Shihab Shamma Director 301-405-6842 sas@umd.edu
Center for Automation Research (CfAR) Rama Chellappa Director 301-405-3656 chella@umd.edu
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB) Steven Salzburg Director 301-405-9611 salzberg@umaics.umd.edu
Center for Biomolecular Structure and Organization George Lorimer Director 301-405-2416 glorimer@umd.edu
Center for Children, Relationships, and Culture (CCRC) Melanie Killen Associate Director 301-405-3176 mkillen@umd.edu
Center for Communicating Networked Control Systems (CNC) P.S. Krishnaprasad Director 301-405-6843 pkrishna@umd.edu
Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (CCEBH)

Robert Dooling

Arthur Popper

Co-Director

Co-Director

301-405-5925

301-405-1940

dooling@psyc.umd.edu

apopper@umd.edu
Center for Complexity in Business Chris Dellarocas Director 301-405-6705 cdell@umd.edu
Center for Digital International Government (CDIG) V.S. Subrahmanian Director 301-405-2711 vs@cs.umd.edu
Center for Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures (CDCSS) P.S. Krishnaprasad Co-Director 301-405-6843 pkrishna@umd.edu
Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) S. Robert Ramsey Director 301-405-4256 ramsey@umd.edu

Center for Educational Policy and Leadership (CEPAL)

 Robert Croninger Director 301-405-1818 croninge@umd.edu

Center for Electronic Markets and Enterprises (CEME)

 Joseph Bailey Director 301-405-2174 jbailey@rhsmith.umd.edu
Center for Energetic Concepts Development (CECD) David K. Anand Director 301-405-5294 dkanand@umd.edu
Center for Engineered Learning Systems (CELS) Gary W. Rubloff
301-405-2949 rubloff@umd.edu

Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE)

 Reinhard Radermacher Director 301-405-5286 raderm@umd.edu
Center for Excellence in Service (CES) Roland Rust Executive Director 301-405-2190 rrust@umd.edu
Center for Firefighter Safety Research and Development April Walker
240-417-0263 awalker@mfri.org
Center for Food Systems Security and Safety (CFS3) Robert Buchanan
Director

Center for Geotechnology Centrifuge Modeling Deborah Goodings
301-405-1960 goodings@eng.umd.edu
Center for Global Business Education Lisa Barnard Associate Director 301-405-9575 lbarnard@rhsmith.umd.edu
Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) Ritu Agarwal Director 301-405-3121 ragar@umd.edu
Center for Heritage Resource Studies (CHRS) Paul Shackel Director 301-405-1422 pshackel@anth.umd.edu
Center for High Energy Astrophysics Lee Mundy Director 301-405-1529 lgm@umd.edu
Center for Historical Studies (CHS) Sonya Michel Director 301-405-4297 smichel@umd.edu
Center for Human Capital, Technology and Innovation (HCIT) Susan Taylor Director 301-405-2240 smtaylor@umd.edu
Center for Hypersonics and Research (CHR) Nicole Roop Assistant Director 301-405-8959 nroop@umd.edu
Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) Willliam Galston Director 301-405-6347 bgalston@umd.edu
Center for Information Policy and Electronic Government (CIPEG) Paul Jaeger Director 301-405-1741 pjaeger@umd.edu
Center for Information Policy and Electronic Government (CIPEG) Paul T. Jaeger Director 301-405-1741 pjaeger@umd.edu
Center for Innovation Jerald Hage Director 301-405-9746 hage@socy.umd.edu
Center for Integrated Latent Variable Research (CILVR) Gregory Hancock Director 301-405-3621 ghancock@umd.edu
Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER) Kim Ross Executive Director 301-405-3988 kross@umd.edu
Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) John Steinbruner Director 301-405-4578 jsteinbr@umd.edu
Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) Jonathan Wilkenfeld Director 301-314-7703 jwilkenf@gvpt.umd.edu
Center for International Economics (CIE) Guillermo Calvo Director 301-405-3553 calvo@umd.edu  
Center for Literacy, Language, and Culture (CLLC) Joseph McCaleb Director 301-405-3133 jlm@umd.edu
Center for Mathematics Education James Fey
301-405-3151 jimfey@umd.edu
Center for Micro Engineering Don DeVoe
301-405-8125 ddev@umd.edu

Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering (CMSE)

 Rosemary Parker Director 301-405-3880 rparker@umd.edu
Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics (CMPD) William Dorland Director 301-405-1608 bdorland@umd.edu
Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials (CNAM) Richard Greene Director 301-405-6128 rickg@umd.edu
Center for Networking of Infrastructure Sensors (CNIS) Stuart Milner Director 301-405-6556 milner@umd.edu
Center for Particle and String Theory (CPST) Sylvester James Gates Director 301-405-6025 gatess@umd.edu
Center for Persian Studies, The Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak Director 301-405-3147 karimi@umd.edu
Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership Shawn J. Parry-Giles Director 301-405-6527 spg@umd.edu
Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine (CPCVM) Bettye Walters Director 301-314-6821 bwalter1@umd.edu
Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise (CPPPE) Jacques Gansler Director 301-405-4794 jgansler@umd.edu
Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies Adele Seeff Director 301-405-6830 aseeff@umd.edu
Center for Research on Increasing Minorities in STEM Careers, The



Center for Research on Latino Educational Success



Center for Research on Military Organization David Segal Director 301-405-6439 dsegal@socy.umd.edu
Center for Risk and Reliability (CRR) Ali Mosleh Director 301-405-5214 mosleh@eng.umd.edu
Center for Risk Communication Research Monique Mitchell Turner Director 301-405-1650 mmturner@umd.edu
Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM)  Eitan Tadmor Director 301-405-0648 tadmor@umd.edu
Center for Software Quality and Security Bill Pugh Director 301 405 2705 pugh@umd.edu
Center for Studies in 19th Century Music H. Robert Cohen Director 301-405-7780 hrcohen@umd.edu
Center for Studies of Post-Communist Societies (CSPCS) Vladimir Tismaneanu Director 301-405-4164 vtisman@gvpt.umd.edu
Center for Substance Abuse Research Eric Wish Director 301-403-8333 selkin@umd.edu
Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Spencer Benson Director 301-405-5478 sbenson@umd.edu
Center for Technology and Systems Management (CTSM) Bilal M. Ayyub Director 301-405-1956 ba@umd.edu
Center for the Study of Advanced Professional Practice, The (CSAPP)



Center for Young Children (CYC) Francine Favretto
301-405-3168 ffavrett@umd.edu
Center on Aging Laura Wilson Director 301-405-2469 lwilson@umd.edu
Center on Optoelectronic Devices, Interconnects and Packaging (COEDIP) Aristos Christou Director 301-405-5208 christou@umd.edu
Central Maryland Research & Education Center (CMREC) Francis Allnutt Director 301-596-9330 fallnutt@umd.edu
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (CPSAC) Susan Farr Director 301-405-2993 sfarr@umd.edu
Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) Stuart Vogel Director 301-405-2134 svogel@umd.edu
Composites Research Laboratory Norman Werely Director 301-405-1927 wereley@umd.edu
Computer Vision Lab (CVL) John Aloimonos Director 301-405-4526 jyaloimo@umd.edu
Condensed Matter Theory Center (CMTC) Sankar Das Sarma Director 301-405-6145 dassarma@umd.edu
Connections Beyond Sight and Sound (CBSS) Diane Kelly Director 301-405-7915 dkellysi@umd.edu
Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (CRGE) Bonnie T. Dill Director 301-405-6878 btdill@umd.edu
Cooperative Archaeology Program Lab Paul Shackel Director 301-405-4123 pshackel@anth.umd.edu
Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (CICS) Philip Arkin Director 301-405-2147 parkin@essic.umd.edu 
Cultural Systems Analysis Group (CuSAG) Tony Whitehead Director 301-405-1419 twhitehe@anth.umd.edu
David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora Robert E. Steele Director 301-314-2621 rsteele@umd.edu
Democracy Collaborative Ted Howard Executive Director 301-405-9266 thoward1@umd.edu
Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, The Asher Epstein Director 301-405-9510 aepstein@rhsmith.umd.edu
Distributed Systems Software Lab (DSSL) Jeffrey Hollingsworth
301-405-2708 hollings@umd.edu
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) Anthony Busalacchi Director 301-405-5599 abusalec@umd.edu
East-West Space  Science Center   Roald Sagdeev Director 301-405-8051 rzs@umd.edu
Energy Research Center (UMERC) Gregory Jackson
301-405-2368 gsjackso@umd.edu
Family Service Center Carol Werlinich
301-405-4017 cwerlin@umd.edu
Fraunhofer Center Rance Cleaveland Director 301-403-2065 wcleavel@umd.edu
Genetics with Eukaryotic Model Systems (GEMS) Steve Mount Director 301-405-9904 smount@umd.edu
Gliner Center for Humor Communication and Health Sharon Simson Director 301-314-2582 ssimson@umd.edu
Global Land Cover Facility (GLFC) John Townshend Principal Investigator 301-405-4567 jtownshe@umd.edu

Graphics and Visual Informatics Lab (GVIL)

 Amitabh Varshney
301-405-6761 avarshne@umd.edu
Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda Ken Conca Director 301-405-4125 kconca@umd.edu
Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, Inc. Russell Brinsfield Executive Director 410-827-6202 russb2@umd.edu
Hearing and Speech Clinic       Elizabeth Coon Clinic Office Supervisor 301-405-4218 coon@hesp.umd.edu
Home and Garden Information Center (HGIC) Jon Traunfeld Regional Extension Specialist Coordinator 410-531-5556 jont@umd.edu
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) Allison Druin Director 301-405-2769 allisond@umiacs.umd.edu
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) V.S. Subrahmanian Director 301-405-2711 vs@cs.umd.edu
Institute for Child Study Charles Flatter
301-405-2818 cf9@umail.umd.edu
Institute for Governmental Service and Research (IGSR) Robin Cox Director 301-405-3053 rcox2@umd.edu
Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy (IPPP) Mark Sagoff Director 301-405-4762 msagoff@umd.edu
Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST) Rajarshi Roy Director 301-405-4878 rroy@umd.edu
Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP)  Daniel Lathrop Director 301-405-1594 lathrop@umd.edu
Institute for Systems Research (ISR) Eyad Abed Director 301-405-3631 abed@umd.edu
Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) Dennis Wood Director 301-405-3594 dennis@iris.econ.umd.edu
Interindustry Forecasting at the University of Maryland (InForUM) Clopper Almon Director 301-405-4604 calmon@umd.edu
International Center for Media & the Public Agenda (IMCPA) Susan Moeller Director 301 405 2419 smoeller@umd.edu
International Center for Transcultural Education Barbara Finkelstein Director 301-405-3588 bf@umd.edu
International Communication and Negotiation Simulations (ICONS) Andrew Blum Director 301-405-4511 ablum@cidcm.umd.edu
IPM (Integrated Pest Management) Maryland Sandra Sardanelli Coordinator
 301-405-7877 ssardane@umd.edu
Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory Richard Walker Director 301-405-4089 rjwalker@geol.umd.edu
James McGregor Burns Academy of Leadership Carol Pearson Director 301-405-8357 cpearson@umd.edu
Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN)  Jianghong Meng Acting Director 301-405-8382 jmeng@umd.edu
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism Jan Schaffer Executive Director 301-985-4020 jans@j-lab.org
Joint Global Change Research Institute Gerald Stokes Director 301-314-6704 stokes@pnl.gov
Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery (JIKD) James Hendler Director 301-405-2696 hendler@umd.edu
Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) Christopher Lobb UM Co-Director 301-405-6130 lobb@squid.umd.edu
Keck CHAOS Visualization Lab Brian Hunt Director  301-405-4885 bhunt@ipst.umd.edu
Keck Laboratory for the Analysis of Visual Motion Larry Davis Director 301-405-2662 lsd@umiacs.umd.edu
Knight Center for Specialized Journalism Carol Horner Director 301-985-7198 chorner@jmail.edu
Laboratory for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Science and Engineering Wendell Hill
301-405-4813 wth@umd.edu
Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes Kent Norman Director 301-405-5924 stangor@psyc.umd.edu
Laboratory for Biological Ultrastructure Tim Maugel Director 301-405-6898 tmaugel@umd.edu
Laboratory for Computation and Visualization (LCV) Anil Deane Director 301-405-4866 deane@umd.edu
Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics (LCCD) Dana Nau Director 301 405 2684 nau@umd.edu
Laboratory for Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP)

Bonnie Dorr

Louiqa Raschid

Amy Weinberg

Co-Director

Co-Director

Co-Director

301-405-6768

301-405-2228

301-405-4934

bdorr@umd.edu

lraschid@umd.edu

weinber@umd.edu
Laboratory for Crustal Petrology Michael Brown Director 301-405-4080 mbrown@geol.umd.edu
Laboratory for Millimeter-Wave Astronomy Stuart Vogel Director 301-405-2134 svogel@umd.edu
Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research Philip Candela
301-405-2783 candela@geol.umd.edu
Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Computing (LPDC)  Joseph Jaja
301-405-6722 josephj@umd.edu
Laboratory of Comparative & Functional Neuroanatomy Steven Brauth Director 301-405-5874 brauth@psyc.umd.edu
Language and Media Processing Laboratory  (LAMP)

Amy Weinberg

David Doermann

Co-Director

Co-Director

301-405-4934

301-405-1767

weinber@umd.edu

doermann@umd.edu
Language-Learning Early-Advantage Program (LEAP) Dianne Handy Director 301-405-4228 dhandy@hesp.umd.edu
Latin American Studies Center (LASC) Saul Sosnowski Director 301-405-4772 sosnowsk@umd.edu
Lower Eastern Shore Research and Education Center - Salisbury (LESREC) Francis Allnutt Director  410-742-1178 fallnutt@umd.edu
Maryland 4-H Center Kendra Wells State Program Leader 301-314-9070 rbyrne@umd.edu
Maryland Center for Anxiety Disorders Samuel Turner Director 301-405-0232 klwells@umd.edu
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station (MAES) Vacant Acting Associate Director 301-405-2462
Maryland Assessment Research Center for Education Success (MARCES) Robert Lissitz Director 301-405-3620 rlissitz@umd.edu
Maryland Center for Automotive Research and Testing (MCART) D.C. Holloway Director 301-405-5281 solarcar@umd.edu
Maryland Center for Undergraduate Research Lisa Kiely Director 301-405-0966 lkiely@umd.edu
Maryland Child and Family Development Laboratory (MCFDL) Jude Cassidy Director 301-405-0009 jcassidy@psyc.umd.edu
Maryland Collective Choice Center (UMCCC) Joe Oppenheimer Director 301-405-4113 joppenhe@umd.edu
Maryland Hybrid Networks Center John Baras Director 301-405-6606 baras@umd.edu
Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory (MIND) Ashok Agrawala Co-Director 301-405-2525 agrawala@umd.edu
Maryland Information System Security Laboratory (MISSL) William Arbaugh Director 301-405-2774 warbaugh@umd.edu
Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health (MIAEH) Betty Dabney Director (301) 405-6583 bdabney@umd.edu
Maryland Institute for Minority Achievement & Urban Education (MIMAUE) Martin Johnson Director 301-405-0246 mailto:mljohnso@umd.edu
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Neil Fraistat Director 301-405-8927 fraistat@umd.edu
Maryland Justice Analysis Center (MJAC) Charles Wellford Director 301-405-4701 cwellford@crim.umd.edu
Maryland Literacy Research Center John Guthrie Director 301-405-8036 jguthrie@umd.edu
Maryland Nanocenter Gary Rubloff Director 301-405-2949 rubloff@isr.umd.edu
Maryland Pathogen Research Institute (MPRI) Debra Weinstein Associate Director 301-405-2156 mpri@umd.edu
Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC) Seth Sanders Director 301-405-3497 sanders@econ.bsos.umd.edu
Maryland Small Business Development Center (MDSBDC) Renee Sprow Director 301-403-8300 rsprow@umd.edu
Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (MTECH) David Barbe Executive Director 301-405-3906 dbarbe@umd.edu
Maryland Transportation Technology Transfer Center Philip Tarnoff Director 301-403-4619 tarnoff@umd.edu
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Ellen Williams Director 301-405-6156 edw@umd.edu
Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies Hayim Lapin Director 301-405-4975 hlapin@umd.edu
Mid-Atlantic Regional Earth Science Applications Center Stephen Prince Director 301-405-4062 sprince@umd.edu
National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education Geritt Knaap
301-405-6083 gknaap@ursp.umd.edu
National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education Gerritt Knaap Director 301-405-6083 gknapp@umd.edu
National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR) Michael Ball Co-Director 301-405-2227 mball@umd.edu
National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice, The Peter Leone Director 301-405-6489 leonep@umd.edu
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (START)  Gary Lafree Director 301-405-6600 glafree@crim.umd.edu
National Foreign Language Center (NFLC)   Catherine Ingold Director 301-405-9828 cwingold@nflc.org
Netcentricity Laboratory Sandor Boyson
301-405-2205 sboyson@umd.edu
Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences Program Cynthia Moss Director 301-405-0353 cmoss@psyc.umd.edu
Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications John Benedetto Director 301-405-5161 jjb@umd.edu
Parallel Understanding Systems Lab (PLUS) James Hendler Director 301-405-2696 hendler@cs.umd.edu
Perceptual Interfaces and Reality Laboratory (PIRL) Ramani Duraiswami Director 301-405-6710 rduraisw@umd.edu
Plant Nematology Laboratory Sandra Sardanelli Director 301-405-7877 ssardane@umd.edu
Plasma Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, The William McDonough Director 301-405-5561 mcdonough@geol.umd.edu
Program on Global Security and Disarmament Natalie Goldring Executive Director 301-405-4969 ngoldring@gvpt.umd.edu
Psychology Clinic   M. Colleen Byrne Director 301-405-4808 PsycClinic@psyc.umd.edu
Public Safety Training and Technical Assistance Program Thomas Carr Director 301-489-1700 tcarr@wb.hidta.org
Rural Development Center (at UMES) Daniel Kuennen Director 410-651-6183 dkuennen@umd.edu
Sloan Biotechnology Industry Center (SBIC) Jacques Gansler Director 301-405-4794 jgansler@umd.edu
Smart Materials and Structures Research Center Amr Baz Director 301-405-5216 baz@umd.edu
Space Systems Laboratory (SSL) David Akin Director 301-405-1158 dakin@umd.edu
Space Vehicles Technology Institute Mark Lewis Director 301-405-1133 mjlewis@umd.edu
Stable Isotope Laboratory

James Farquhar

A.J. Kaufman

Co-Director

Co-Director

301-405-1116

301-405-0395

jfarquha@essic.umd.edu

kaufman@geol.umd.edu
Supply Chain Management Center (SCMC)

Sandor Boyson

Thomas Corsi

Co-Director

Co-Director

301-405-2205

301-405-2197

sboyson@umd.edu

tcorsi@umd.edu
Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) Gili Marbach-Ad Director 301-405-2075 gilim@umd.edu
University of Maryland Center on Aging (UMCA) Laura Wilson Director 301-405-2469 lwilson@umd.edu
Violence Research Group  Brian Wiersma Director 301-405-4735 bwiersema@crim.umd.edu
Western Maryland Research and Education Center - Keedysville (WMREC) Francis Allnutt Director 301-432-2767 fallnutt@umd.edu
Wye Research and Education Center - Queenstown Russell Brinsfield Director 410-827-6202 russb2@umd.edu

Last updated 6/30/08

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