***Please note that as of June 2010, this website will not be actively updated. Please visit BISI-BEES for information.

Announcements
The Fifth Annual Organismal Biology Day seminar was delivered by National Academy of Sciences member
Barbara Schaal on Wednesday, April 7, 2010. More information: click here. Photos: click here. OBD history: click here.

The University of Maryland and the Smithsonian Institution have formally agreed to pursue research collaborations. A memorandum between the SI National Museum of Natural History and the UM BEES Graduate Program was also signed to establish the Consortium for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology. Read more here.

The BEES program and the Smithsonian Institution now offer joint training with fellowship opportunities for qualified candidates in the area of Paleobiolgy within BEES. Please see the faculty lists for participating faculty.

The University of Maryland is a member of the Organization for Tropical Studies. For more information, click here.

Admissions
The University of Maryland recently reorganized its graduate programs in the biological sciences. To learn about the BEES concentration area within the new Biological Sciences (BISI) graduate program, please visit the website here.

Seminars and Discussion Groups
BEES seminars are held Mondays at noon in room 1103 of the Bioscience Research Building.

Join faculty members, graduate students and post-docs in a discussion of evolutionary genetics.

Check out the College of Chemical and Life Sciences calendar of events.

Graduate student accolades
-Recent graduate Christina Kennedy received the Biology Department's Outstanding Research Award. Christina recently obtained a postdoctoral appointment in Statistical Ecology with the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.

-Alex Forde received a Graudate Student Summer Grant from the Latin American Studies Center! Way to go!

-Congratulations to Kelly O'Quin and MaLinda Henry who received Wylie Dissertation Fellowships from the Graduate School! These awards are for students who are near graduation.

-Mercedes Burns and Nathan Jud will have summer funding through the Graduate School's Summer Research Fellowships! These fellowships help mid-career graduate students reach important milestones.

-First year student Alex Forde received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congrats, Alex!

-At this year's Organismal Biology Day Awards Ceremony, Jason Keagy received the Research Award, and
Mercedes Burns received the Service Award. To see previous award winners, please click here.

-Alex Forde took first place in the student oral paper competition and Mercedes Burns placed first in the poster competition at the 81st Annual Meeting of Entomological Society of America's Eastern Branch.

-Megan Paustian received an Encyclopedia of Life fellowship on global terrestrial slug faunas. Congrats, Megan!

-A CLFS Hockmeyer Fellowship was awarded to Kelly O'Quin for Spring 2010.

-Congratulations to Mercedes Burns, Nathan Jud and Jason Keagy who all won poster presentation awards at this year's Bioscience Research and Technology Review Day.