BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT AWARD WINNERS 2013 - Awards Committee: Reagan Lake, Esther Fleischmann, Steve Caruso, Hua Lu and Kevin Omland (chair) AWARDS TO SENIORS: Faculty Award for Excellence in Biological Sciences: superior in classroom and research. David Stonko, Sonia Dalal Faculty Award for Excellence in Bioinformatics: Laura Anzaldi Outstanding Graduating Seniors Biological Sciences: ALL EARNED 4.0! Nour Al Ghriwati, Maithri Kondapaka, Shelly Lai, Hiba Malik, Irfan Manzoor, Adam Mayer, Daniel Slack, Kohl Strauss, Monica Tong, Kathryn Cronise. SANDOZ: UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING AWARD: Alison Jacques, Jinal Sheth SCHOLARSHIPS TO JUNIORS (or first semester seniors): DAVIS AWARD: Roger Michael Davis Scholarship Award: Outstanding undergrad TA. Kwadwo Owusu-Boaty MARSHO AWARD: The Thomas V. Marsho and Martin Schwartz Scholarship Award: William Angel DIETRICH AWARD: Preference is given to students who an Eagle Scout award or a Gold Award Nicholas Boyd DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE AWARD: Shahida Khatoon DEPARTMENTAL HONORS RESEARCH: Jinal Sheth (Starz-Gaiano), Kevin Herold (Robinson), Michael Nguyen (Mendelson), Danielle Adekunle (Bieberich) OUTSTANDING GRADUATE TA AWARD: Tracy Smith

Please join us February 25, 2013 at noon in UC 312, for more information on our two-semester Master's Program in Applied Molecular Biology.   See the Flyer with more information at
http://www.umbc.edu/biosci/AMB-Open-House.pdf

The Biological Sciences department congratulates Dr. Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg for being recognized by the American Association of Immunologists with the Excellence in Mentoring Award "In recognition of exemplary career contributions to a future generation of scientists." For more information, please visit http://www.aai.org/Alerts/Awards/CareerAwardRecipients-2013.html.

The 15th Annual Undergraduate Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences was held on Saturday, October 20, 2012 at UMBC. Sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the NIH, the juried event featured over 200 posters presented by over 220 undergraduate presenters from 45 universities in 10 states. The event was hosted by the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, along with the Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Biological Sciences.  http://www.umbcsymposium.org