Training the Brain

Melissa Caras is searching for ways to help maintain or improve perceptual skills in the face of aging or disease.

Bio-Nose Technology: Conferring a Sense of Smell

Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of $2 million, a team of UMD researchers aims to create a portable device capable of identifying odors in the environment.

Biology’s Hilary Bierman Receives Provost’s Excellence Award for Professional Track Faculty

Bierman helped create UMD’s neuroscience major from scratch—and launched it during a global pandemic.

Postdoctoral Associate
BioFIRE Welcomes Class of 2027

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

Ph.D Student
Meet Victoria Fitzgerald: Thelma M. Williams Advisor of the Year Award Winner

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. 

UMD Offers Undergraduate Courses on the Grand Challenge of ‘Global Change’

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

From Scuba Diver to Auditory Neurocircuitry Researcher

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

Professor and Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics
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