As the keynote speaker for the 2026 CMNS Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony, Andy Balo (B.S. ’70, microbiology) will share how a passion for science, innovation and impact shaped his 53-year career in healthcare technology.

UMD Biology Professor Emeritus Arthur N. Popper calls for studies of non-mammalian marine species affected by the sounds of deep-sea mining.

This year's awardees were selected from a pool of hundreds of nominations from the Science Terp community.

Over 4,200 students from our college are set to graduate in May 2026.

Jinyi “Cornelia” Zhu came to Maryland for the weather. She leaves with a B.S. in public health science, a Ph.D. in biological sciences, and gratitude for the freshman science program that started it all.

As an investigator at the American Museum of Natural History, UMD alum Jessica Goodheart (Ph.D. ’17, biological sciences) seeks to solve how sea slugs steal to survive.

Biological sciences doctoral student Stephanie Chia uses informatics to determine why some animal forms fail to arise.

UMD biological sciences Ph.D. student Gayatri Anand develops mathematical models to understand how hundreds of giant honey bees ‘shimmer’ in perfect synchrony to protect their hive. 

Walter will propose an official species name and prepare the genome for international databases and a genome announcement publication.

Paleobotanist Nathan Jud (Ph.D. ’14, biological sciences) digs up, compares and identifies fossils that fill holes in the story of plant evolution.