Najib El-Sayed knows what it means to adapt to change, and he’s excited to guide students through a successful transition to college.

Danielle Adams, Ricardo Araneda and Emily Bruns will work to transition their face-to-face courses to online or blended-learning courses. 

The title of Distinguished University Professor is the highest academic honor bestowed by the university.

Bill Fagan, James Farquhar, Dinesh Manocha and Aravind Srinivasan received the university's highest academic honor.

UMD cell biology and molecular genetics researchers join forces to develop new drugs for treating coronavirus.

The evaluation committee had the following comments on Gammerdinger's (advisor: Thomas Kocher) top-ranked article: "A very impressive analysis of next-generation genome sequencing to describe sex chromosome systems (XY and ZW) in Lake Tanganyika cichlids. The work reveals surprisingly rapid sex chromosome evolution, AND a novel color polymorphism locus. Based on an EECG award."

A major goal of the project is to accelerate the analyses of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data needed by scientists and public health officials battling the virus.

Awardees included Assistant Professor Quentin Gaudry, Professor Bill Fagan and Associate Research Scientist 
Katrina MacLeod.

Faculty members, staff members and students received this year's annual awards.

Two of the 50 things in the article involve Biology faculty members David Inouye's work with pollinators and James Dietz's work on Golden Lion Tamarins in Brazil.