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Governor Visits Clark School Facility

Pictured: (top row, left to right: Herbert Rabin, acting dean, A. James Clark School of Engineering; Scott Laughlin, former director of Mtech's VentureAccelerator Program; Governor Martin O'Malley; Zymetis President and CEO Steve Hutcheson; Steve Davey, Chief Operating Officer of Zymetis. Bottom row, in lab coats (all recent UM alumni) Dan Forrest; Elizabeth Santos; Kristen Goff.

On March 10, the University of Maryland and Governor Martin O'Malley unveiled an innovative system developed by university professors that breaks down almost any source of biomass, or plant life, and converts it into ethanol.

The technology was developed by university spin-off company, Zymetis Inc., which worked on the system in the Clark School's Technology Advancement Program incubator.

For more information on the technology, please see this related news item.

March 11, 2008