5523 Research Park Drive
Suite 310
Baltimore, MD 21228
(410) 455-8400
Ellen Hemmerly, Executive Director
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Bwtech@UMBC is a 41-acre research and technology community at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Bwtech@UMBC has a total development capacity of up to 330,000 square feet of office and laboratory space. The first two buildings totaling 122,000 square-feet are fully leased. Tenants include:
- The NASA Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center
- BD Metrics (software)
- Physicians Practice (healthcare communications and technology)
- The Erickson School of Aging Studies at UMBC
- Edwards & Kelcey (engineering / design)
- UMBC’s Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship
- U.S. Geological Survey MD-DE-DC Water Science Center (USGS)
Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) completed the 23,500 SF USGS Water Science Center in July, 2007. USGS employs over 60 scientists and support staff who will collaborate with UMBC and U.S. Forest Service scientists who monitor the ecosystems of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and the health of the region's water supply, rivers and streams.
COPT completed a four-story 110,000 SF multi-tenant building in 2008. The building is being marketed to research entities and technology companies which have the potential to collaborate with UMBC.
UMBC is a selective public research university with a focus on academic excellence and a campus-wide spirit of entrepreneurship. UMBC is home to more than 25 research centers across many disciplines, including the Center for the Advanced Study of Photonics Research, Joint Center for Astrophysics, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UMBC, Imaging Research Center, and the Center for Women and Information Technology.
- UMBC is ranked in the top tier of U.S. research universities by the Carnegie Foundation.
- UMBC currently enrolls nearly 3,000 information technology related majors and produces almost 40 percent of Maryland’s bachelor’s degrees. It is consistently ranked among the top five research universities nationally in the production of bachelor’s degrees in information technology.
- The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ranks UMBC fifth nationally in the number of undergraduate degrees awarded in chemistry and biochemistry.
