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Department of Biology faculty members advise students in many interdisciplinary graduate programs, including:

  • Biological Sciences
  • Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
  • Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences
  • Biophysics
  • Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation

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The Department of Biology offers three interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science programs:

  • Biological Sciences
  • Neuroscience
  • Environmental Science and Policy

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Ask a Fish: How Well Can Cichlids See Color?
Ask a Fish: How Well Can Cichlids See Color?
UMD biologists have trained African cichlids, originally from Lake Malawi, to perform behavioral experiments to find the answer to this and other questions.

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