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UMCES celebrates the Class of 2026 at Commencement Ceremony

May 29, 2026
UMCES officially awarded degrees to the Class of 2026 on Friday, May 29, 2026 at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET).

Dr. Kimberly Warner receives inaugural UMCES Distinguished Alumni Award

May 29, 2026
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science has named Dr. Kimberly Warner (’99) the recipient of its inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award at this year’s Commencement ceremony on May 29th at the Institute for Marine and Environmental Technology in Baltimore, MD. 

Dr. Emily Cohen receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for 2026-2027

May 20, 2026
Dr. Emily Cohen of the UMCES Appalachian Laboratory earned a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appoints Three New Members to Board of Visitors

April 30, 2026
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) welcomed three new members to its Board of Visitors during its meeting held yesterday at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory.

Recent Paper Outlines How the Creation of a Center Focused on Extreme Events Could Improve Predictions and Emergency Preparedness

April 30, 2026
A recent paper co-authored by UMCES Research Associate Professor Dr. Hali Kilbourne considers what it might look like to create a Center for Paleoenvironmental Records of Extreme Events, where researchers would collaborate with stakeholders to improve resilience to rare events by utilizing knowledge of past extreme events from the geologic record.