CMNS is a college where pioneers, scholars and innovators learn, collaborate and innovate to build a better future.
We proudly recognize faculty members and graduate and undergraduate students in the University of Maryland’s biological sciences community who recently received honors, awards and/or new positions.
He directs the Laboratory for Biological Ultrastructure, an imaging facility that contains transmission, scanning, light and confocal microscopes.
An international research team, including Biology’s Joshua Weitz, reveals how viral lysis of blue-green algae in the Sargasso Sea enhances ecosystem-scale productivity.
As 2025 comes to a close, take some time to revisit our most-read stories of the year and discover some that you may have missed.
Over 200 students from our college graduated in August 2025.
Biology Assistant Professor Nikolas Francis explores the sounds of neuroscience.
A University of Maryland-led study that followed over 1,200 animals across six continents challenges longstanding assumptions about animal movement, with implications for conservation and management of at-risk mammalian carnivores globally.
Biology Senior Lecturer Maira Goytia revamped her “Anatomy and Physiology I” class to develop in-class application-based activities on how the human body regulates multiple physiological variables after different physical tasks. Mathematics Lecturer Matt Griffin used the grant to enhance digital accessibility of his online resources and to help make the content relevant to his students’ varied interests for his “Elementary Statistics and Probability” class.
