Losert's new position will be in addition to his current role as the college's associate dean for research.
UMD researchers on six of 22 teams awarded Department of Defense MURI grants; CMNS represented on five of these awards.
Ten faculty members were promoted to professor or associate professor with tenure effective July 1, 2015.
The NSF received more than 16,500 applications and made 2,000 fellowship award offers.
Biology Professor Arthur Popper reflects on the career of his colleague, friend and mentor.
Common genes remain intact after 450 million years of evolution.
Cao plans to use the scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in medical anthropology at the University of Oxford in England.
This research will help identify the precise interactions between millions of nerve cells and alterations in these interactions that may be responsible for brain disorders.
Most cross-species mating is merely unsuccessful in producing offspring. However, when researchers mated worms of different species, they saw devastating consequences for the female worms.
Kan Cao, Jonathan Simon, Kevin McIver and Yoann LeBreton receive awards.