Canty has been leading the program since late 2019.
Harris hired new faculty members, strengthened research ties with NASA and improved research facilities during his first term as chair.
Singer served as interim chair for the past two years.
Kevin McIver Named Chair of UMD’s Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics for Five-year Term
McIver has served as interim department chair since March 2021.
He will continue to lead 76 UMIACS faculty members and almost 200 graduate students from eight departments across the UMD campus.
Chembo joined the university in 2019 from the Georgia Tech–CNRS Joint Research Laboratory.
The team will study a previously unexplored region that may hold clues to how the moon and other similar celestial bodies formed over time.
UMD students work across disciplines and majors on four-year research project.
UMD-led study maps the forests of the American Midwest to monitor carbon storage over millennia.
He will hold a joint appointment in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center.