UMD Senior Veeraj Shah Named a 2021 Rhodes Scholarship Finalist

Shah was also a finalist for the Marshall and Truman Scholarships. He is pursuing dual degrees in biological sciences and individual studies.

Global-scale Animal Ecology Reveals Behavioral Changes in Response to Climate Change

International collaboration including the University of Maryland uses Arctic-wide data archive of animal movement to ask big-picture questions about effects of a changing world.

How Random ‘Fortunate Events’ Led to Us All

Professor Sean Carroll's new book examines unlikely chain of chance.

UMD Biologist Awarded $1.5 Million to Develop Brain Mapping Techniques

NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program will fund a project that could transform efforts to understand how neurons are wired.

Tested by the Pandemic

University of Maryland alumna and her laboratory team take on the challenges of COVID-19.

Riva Riley Named Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow

The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is interested in scholars with the potential to bring to their research and teaching the critical perspective that comes from their educational background or understanding of the experiences of groups historically underrepresented in higher education.

Three from Biology to Serve on College's Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Council

Graduate student John Ficklin, Senior Lecturer Sara Lombardi and Professor Gerald Wilkinson will serve on the Council.

New Algorithms for Estimating Latent Dynamics Underlying Biological Processes

In "Dynamic estimation of auditory temporal response functions via state-space models with Gaussian mixture process noise," published August 19, 2020 in PLOS Computational Biology, researchers including Professor Jonathan Simon develop efficient algorithms for inferring the parameters of a general class of Gaussian mixture process noise models from noisy and limited observations, and utilize them in extracting the neural dynamics that underlie auditory processing from magnetoencephalography (MEG) data in a cocktail party setting.

Faculty Promotions Announced by UMD College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences

Twelve tenured/tenure-track faculty members, seven instructional faculty members and 16 research faculty members were promoted.

Four Biology Faculty Members Promoted

We congratulate Quentin Gaudry, who was promoted to associate professor with tenure; Beth Parent, who was promoted to principal lecturer; and Bill Fagan, who was named Distinguished University Professor. 

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