Biological Sciences
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CMNS awardees include eight current undergraduates, three recent alumni, and six current graduate students (one of whom is also a recent graduate).
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Over the last decade, UMD’s nominations yielded 33 scholarships—the most in the nation.
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University of Maryland biologist Karen Lips helps find a significant drop in snake diversity following amphibian declines from chytrid fungus.
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In the largest-ever caribou study a University of Maryland-led team disputes long-held assumptions about migration timing and suggests warming summers may negatively affect calving.
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Biological sciences major Maïgane Diop and Nipun Kottage (B.S. ’19, biochemistry; B.S. ’19, anthropology) were among the finalists for the world’s most prestigious award for international study.
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Manuella Djomaleu, Jillian Kunze and Nicholas Poniatowski honored as three of the university’s most successful seniors.
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Global study confirms caribou as longest migrator and reveals even greater distances traveled by animals without regular migratory pattern.
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Sean Carroll, Ming Lin and Richard Walker received the university's highest academic honor.
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The UMD student experiment will test how well bacteria can grow on different surfaces in microgravity aboard the International Space Station.
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New research suggests that global trends in farming practices are undermining the pollinators crops depend on and putting agricultural productivity and stability at risk, particularly in some Asian and South American nations.
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The awards will enable four students to study or conduct research in Scotland, at Columbia University and at the University of Maryland.
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After returning to the U.S., Trang plans to apply for a bioethics fellowship before pursuing a medical degree.
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