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ZOOMING in Biosciences

Victor Muñoz and Sarah Tishkoff, faculty members in the College of Life Sciences, are recipients of the prestigious Packard Faculty Fellowships.

Only the top 50 universities nationally are invited to submit a maximum of two nominations for these fellowships. A total of 24 fellows are selected, and Maryland is one of only two universities to have more than one winner this year. Muñoz and Tishkoff will each receive $625,000 over five years to pursue their research, which the Packard Foundation awards to the country's most promising young science and engineering faculty, enabling them to "pursue lines of inquiry that might be too risky for standard funding mechanisms."

ZOOM, Victor and Sarah!