September 2008 Featured News

Note from Dean Allewell

As the fall semester begins, I hope that you had the opportunity to enjoy the additional degrees of freedom that summer provides and that your semester is off to a great start. The College is poised for an exciting and action-packed semester. Please join me in welcoming several new faculty members.  It is a particular pleasure to welcome Dr. Norma Andrews, a cell biologist and molecular parasitologist with a distinguished record of accomplishment, to serve as the new chair of the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics. Dr. Andrews will provide leadership that will enable this critically important department to rise to a new level of excellence. Dr. Andrews is currently Professor of Cell Biology and the Section of Microbial Pathogenesis in the School of Medicine at Yale University.   Continue reading Dean Allewell's highlights >>

New Faculty Members Bring Diverse Expertise to the College

We are welcoming several new faculty members to the College this fall, including Kwaku Dayie, an NMR spectroscopist, and Yuhuang Wang , a nanoscientist, both in Chemistry and Biochemistry; Carlos Machado, an evolutionary genomicist, in Biology; Cerruti Hooks, an agroecologist, in Entomology; Nancy Noben-Trauth, Assistant Director of the Biological Sciences Program at Shady Grove; and Yan Wang, Director of the newly opened Proteomics Core Facility and an assistant research professor.

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New Graduate Fellowships Announced for Advanced Doctoral Students

The College is pleased to announced that we will have five fellowships, funded by generous donors, available for advanced doctoral students for Spring 2009. These are one semester awards for students who have advanced to candidacy. The description of the awards can be found in the attached application.

Reception honors Paul Mazzochi, first dean of the College of Life Sciences

Faculty and staff gathered on September 4 to honor Paul Mazzocchi, the first dean of the College of Life Sciences. Dean Norma Allewell hosted a reception in the “Dean’s Conference Room” of the Bioscience Research Building (room 3101) where a portrait of Mazzocchi will hang, and where portraits of the current and future deans will eventually be hung. Mazzocchi first came to Maryland as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in 1967. He has been in leadership positions throughout his career. Read more >>