Portrait of Michael Lenardo
NIH NIAID Special Volunteer
Portrait of Jinyi "Cornelia" Zhu
Ph.D. Student
Honors & Awards in 2025 for Biology, Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, and Entomology Faculty, Staff and Students

We proudly recognize faculty members and graduate and undergraduate students in the University of Maryland’s biological sciences community who recently received honors, awards and/or new positions.

A Gutsy Approach to Human Hormones

Gabriela Arp, a Ph.D. candidate in UMD’s Biological Sciences Graduate Program, says our gut microbiomes house hormone transformers with the power to change our bodies and brains.

Portrait of Kari-Ann Takano
Ph.D. Student
Portrait of Liz Hunter
Ph.D. Student
Portrait of Aisha Abdulkarimu
Ph.D. Student
Portrait of Zhuoyue Yang
Ph.D. Student
Portrait of Yuxi Wang
Ph.D. Student
Portrait of Connor Young
Ph.D. Student