Born in a small town near what is today the Serbian/Hungarian border, Gantt was the first in her family to attend college. She won numerous awards and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996.

28 undergraduate and graduate students win poster session awards.

UMD scientist contributes to analysis of an enigmatic species of algae, helping to bridge the evolutionary gap between land and marine organisms.

Niyongabo, who is from Burundi, a country in East Africa, highlights one of the country's many cultural heritage: Ingoma z’i Burundi or the Royal Drummers of Burundi.

Joldersma grew up in Hillsdale, Michigan and worked as a teenager in the cornfields for seed company DeKalb manually extracting the tassle from the top of the stalk. He says the first two or three hundred are pretty easy, but after that, lifting your hands above your head for a couple more hours gets pretty hard. 

Liu came to the U.S. in 1983 from the then little-known city Wuhan, China. She has taken some of her Ph.D. students and postdoc fellows to Wuhan to visit since then.

Moctezuma, who lived in Los Angeles and Cuernavaca, Mexico, as a child, has a passion for plants as well as art. 

Alum Iowis Zhu now has patents pending for his work designing immunotherapy ‘toolkits’ that may help patients fight cancer.

The award honors faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in both teaching and research.

The research could allow agriculturists to optimize productivity and explore the viability of ‘virgin fruits’.