BioFIRE’s living-learning program hosted welcome activities to kick off the fall semester.

Nominated by students, the Thelma M. Williams Advisor of the Year Award honors a faculty or staff member who performs the service of advising undergraduate students in the college. 

A new initiative gets students thinking about planetary threats like climate change—and their power to make an impact.

With an NIH graduate fellowship, Rose Ying continues to look for interesting ways to explore the unknown.

We proudly recognize undergraduate and graduate students in UMD’s biological sciences community who recently garnered major honors and awards.

We proudly recognize faculty members in the Department of  Biology who recently garnered major honors and awards.

Twenty tenured/tenure-track faculty members and 10 instructional faculty members were promoted, effective summer 2023. An additional faculty member was named Distinguished University Professor—the highest academic honor bestowed by the university.

Since becoming dean in 2018, he has fostered excellence in the teaching, scholarship and service activities in the college.

Six faculty members share their favorite books—both old and new.

Weitz will continue to explore how viruses impact human and environmental health.