Faculty Honors & Awards
We proudly recognize faculty members in the Department of Biology who recently garnered major honors and awards.
- Hilary Bierman, Provost’s Excellence Award for Professional Track Faculty
- Karen Carleton, Alexa Bely and Sara Lombardi, 2022 UMD Teaching and Learning Grant to introduce global change biology into the biological sciences major
- Sean Carroll, Best Documentary Film Oscar Nominee for “All That Breathes”
- Michael Cummings, UMD Grand Challenges Individual PI Grant
- Abba Gumel, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- William Jeffery, named Distinguished University Professor
- Philip Johnson, promoted to associate professor with tenure; contributed to the research of Svante Pääbo, 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine winner
- Chan Lin, Caitlin Fox and Hilary Bierman, 2022 UMD Teaching and Learning Grant to redesign BSCI452
- Kimberly Paczolt, Philip Johnson and Nicholas Fletcher, 2022 UMD Teaching and Learning Grant to apply biological data to examine human diversity in a lab setting
- Joshua Weitz, named Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics
