Biological sciences major Danielle Arons honored Principal Lecturer Reid Compton.

Jake Schlenoff, a senior biological sciences major who works with Professor Kennedy Paynter, joined a crew aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster in the Gulf of Maine.

He was honored for his contributions to the College Park Scholars Life Sciences program.

Compton stepped down after serving as director for nearly 10 years. Parent most recently served as director of the biological sciences program at the Universities at Shady Grove.

He is the first Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator to take a faculty position at UMD.

Biological sciences majors Ilan Goldstein and Lydia Mazze will work in Biology labs this summer.

Global-scale analysis of losses due to chytrid fungus paints a grim picture: 500 species declines, 90 of which have already been lost. The study, conducted by a team including Professor Karen Lips, concluded that chytridiomycosis is singlehandedly responsible for the greatest loss of biodiversity due to a disease. The team published its findings in the March 29, 2019, issue of the journal Science.

In his new role, Wilkinson will oversee the college’s appointment, promotion and tenure (APT) process and the mentoring of tenured/tenure-track faculty members; the promotion process for professional-track faculty members in CMNS; and the review process for periodic faculty members in the college.

New global study of 57 mammal species finds human modifications to natural landscapes prevent normal movement. The study, which included researchers from Biology, was published in the January 26, 2018 issue of the journal Science.

Study led by Professor Eric Haag finds that a species of self-fertilizing worm lost one-fourth of its genome, including genes that make sperm competitive. The study was published in the journal Science on January 5, 2018.