CMNS is a college where pioneers, scholars and innovators learn, collaborate and innovate to build a better future.

Inside UMD's Plant Diagnostics Lab, botanical medical mysteries meet scientific detective work

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.

Since 2014, 174 current students and recent alums from CMNS have been awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. 

The space is an “otherworldly gift,” providing researchers with expertise and instrumentation to study biologically relevant molecules.

UMD researchers find evidence that deep pockets of primordial material remained undisturbed within Earth’s mantle for billions of years.

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. 

Projects developed by staff members and graduate students in the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences received funding to create positive social change.