Promotions included 12 instructional faculty members and 54 research faculty members.
Created by alumni to honor their educator and mentor, this is the first endowed professorship in biology.
Professor Elizabeth Quinlan is building on more than a decade of research in rodents to see if visual deprivation—spending extended periods of time in total darkness—can help restore normal vision in adults with lazy eye.
Anna Lowien and Emma Thrift receive scholarships from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Blumberg plans to volunteer to teach yoga and meditation in addition to English.
Over 2,000 students were named to the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Dean's List for Spring 2017.
Biology faculty are involved in five of the funded projects.
The University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) hosted its annual academic festival on Friday, May 5 to honor the college’s 2017 employee award recipients.
The ceremony will be held on May 22, 2017, at 4 p.m. at the Xfinity Center on campus.
Six students receive funding.