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We live in a world of unprecedented advances in the biological sciences. Biologists now have the molecular tools and the theoretical models required to answer long-standing questions in genetics, neuroscience, evolution, cell biology, and many other disciplines.

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Chair's Welcome

Welcome to the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland! We aim to be one of the best integrative biology departments in the country. Our faculty, students, and postdoctoral scholars are engaged in research and teaching at the crest of modern biology using a diversity of organisms and modern approaches to gain the widest possible perspectives on biological organization and function. Evolution provides a unifying theme for the department, with research foci in biophysics, sensory neuroscience, developmental biology, evolutionary genetics, behavioral ecology, conservation biology, and ecology.

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Featured Faculty

Dr. Catherine CarrCatherine Carr

Professor

Dr. Carr studies brain evolution and neural processing in the auditory system, using barn owls and reptiles as model systems. She is a contributing faculty member of the University of Maryland Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (C-CEBH), which is organized around the principle that insights gained from studying different species can help in understanding human hearing, finding new cures for deafness and hearing disorders, designing robotic devices, and assessing the effects of noise on communication.

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