The University of Maryland will create a research center to study how people become terrorists, what motivates them to strike and how communities cope with their threat, using a $12 million grant to be announced today by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. The university, which emerged from a field of 27 applicants, will lead the fourth Homeland Security Center of Excellence, making the College Park institution part of a growing network of university-based programs devoted to aspects of the homeland security mission.Full Story