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.

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

Congratulations to the college's 2,400+ Spring 2023 Dean's List awardees.

His proposal titled "Reconstructing the evolution of novel developmental regulators” received three years of funding.