The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) has added service between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore in an effort to handle increased ridership demand in the area as well as expand cooperative efforts between the University of Maryland campuses in Baltimore and College Park.

University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) President Jay A. Perman, MD, and UM Ventures Director James L. Hughes, MBA, greeted other Maryland leaders in higher education, transportation, and state government Monday as they arrived at Camden Station at the conclusion of the inaugural run.

Additional service will be especially helpful, Perman said, in supporting University of Maryland:  MPowering the State , the education and research collaboration linking UMB to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP).  Easing travel between both campuses brings a significant boost to the strategic partnership that, at just three years old, already involves 300 faculty and research collaborators and students.

“What’s exciting to me is that with efforts like these, it’s clear that MPowering the State is about more than UMB and College Park,” Perman said. “It’s about all of us joining together to move Maryland forward, to give students the very best education possible, without being constrained by where that education happens; to take our place on the frontiers of research that will change the way we live; and to harness the state’s amazing intellectual assets — in academia and industry — and build an economy powered by innovation.”

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