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About Bio Sci Calendar Directory Facilities Maps Organizations Research Units Support Services Online Store Contact Us	In the News 09/15/09 Aldrich Elected President-Elect of the Biophysical Society... 09/01/09 Thank You! to the Supporters of the 2009 Bio Sci Staff Appreciation Luncheon... 06/22/09 Shelley Payne (MGM), Stan Roux (MCDB), and Ruth Buskirk (SBS) were awarded the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. 05/15/09 Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Doctoral Student, Christian Rabeling, Wins $10,000 Michael H. Granof Outstanding Graduate Student Award...Barrett Klein, Wins $3,000 for the George H. Mitchell Award... 04/29/09 Quest - Learning and Assessment Named Gold Award Winner at IITAP 2009 Showcase 04/29/09 William H. Press (Computer Sciences, Integrative Biology) was among 20 scientists and engineers named to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology by President Obama in a speech at the National Academies 04/16/09 Two Natural Sciences Students Named Goldwater Scholars -- Lynne Chantranupong and Sean Simmons... 03/26/09 Bolnick, Wallingford Become HHMI Early Career Scientists 02/23/09 Troubled Waters...A rare desert spring ecosystem considered one of Mexico's... 01/26/09 Biologists Receive Sloan Fellowships, Sara Sawyer and Ila Fiete 02/09/09 Dudley Elected Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology 02/02/09 Historicizing HIV - Biologist Sara Sawyer delved tens of millions of years into the evolutionary past of primates... 01/29/09 Next-Generation Gene Sequencing Technology Enables Advanced Genomic Research 01/26/09 The Lamprey Factor - Biologist Jennifer Morgan uses the giant neurons of lampreys to investigate spinal cord injury and the potential for recovery. 01/08/09 Sibling Rivalry ...collaborating with biologist Shelley Payne and several others, recently found... 12/03/08 Lorene Morrow Kelley Distinguished Lecture Series - Presented by Don Ganem, MD 11/24/08 Why Hybrids Grow Bigger 11/20/08 Giant Roaming Protist Provides New Perspective on Animal Evolution 10/21/08 Leanne Field, PHD & THE FLU SHOT 10/01/08 Dee U. Silverthorn - 2009 winner of the Society for College Science Teachers (SCST) Outstanding Undergraduate Science Teacher Award (OUSTA) 09/01/08 BioSci Staff Appreciation Luncheon 08/01/08 Gilbert Endowment Established by Worthingtons 07/28/08 An international team of conservation scientists from Australia, the United Kingdom and United States, including University of Texas at Austin Professor Camille Parmesan... 07/24/08 Genetic evolution is strongly shaped by genes’ efforts to prevent or tolerate errors in the production of proteins... 07/23/08 Scientists Find New Clues to Explain Amazonian Biodiversity 07/17/08 Call for Assisted Migration 07/14/08 Giant Cane and the Little Wasp That Could 07/14/08 Into the Field - Dr. Ulrich Mueller, recipient of the E.O. Wilson Award 06/26/08 MSI Gets Funds for New Building 06/13/08 Microbiologist Receives Support for Studying Bacterial Communication and Disease 06/02/08 Biologist Tanya Paull has become the first faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin to be named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator and at Howard Hughes Medical Institute 04/30/08 Aldrich and Hillis, receive top honors...elected to the National Academy of Sciences. 04/29/08 The National Academy of Sciences today announced new members. 04/24/08 New Source for Biofuels Discovered... by R. Malcolm Brown, Jr. and Dr. David Nobles, Jr. 03/03/08 Scientists map the evolutionary relationships for all life on the planet 02/03/08 Dr. Clark Hubbs, Professor Emeritus in the Section of Integrative Biology, passes away on February 3, 2008 02/04/08 Lasses in Kayaks A wee yarn. Article written by Stephanie Schnorr. Stephanie and Molly Cummings teaming together with Lasses in Kayaks! 01/29/08 Meet the Crutchfields...keeping Brackenridge Field Lab running for researchers and students. 12/13/07 Research Makes Discover's Top 100 12/10/07 When She's Turned On, Some Of Her Genes Turn Off 12/03/07 A Battle on Many Fronts - Against Infectious Diseases 11/26/07 Tree of Life Revealed for Flowering Plants 11/19/07 Invasive Plants Are Moving Targets 11/01/07 Biologist Parmesan Honored For Conservation Leadership 10/15/07 Bio Sci Staff Appreciation Luncheon 09/19/07 Firing at Whisker Barrels 09/04/07 Nobel Prize-winning biologist offers life advice at UT lecture 07/10/07 UT Professor Emeritus James Larimer passes away 05/31/07 UT Professor Emeritus Verne Grant passes away 05/18/07 Rasika Harshey elected to the American Academy of Microbiology 05/15/07 Faculty receive Teaching Awards 05/14/07 Francisco Valladares and Charlie Arnone receive Staff Excellence awards 05/09/07 Special Feature: Brackenridge Field Lab 04/13/07 Evolution under the microscope 04/02/07 Ecology & Evolution Graduate Progam Ranks Among Nation's Best 03/27/07 Common Fungicide Causes Long-term Changes in Mating Behavior 03/22/07 Helmut Koester receives Sloan Research Fellowship 01/30/07 A dab of green for UT 11/30/06 Artificial reef on Town Lake to model coral environments 11/06/06 Dee Silverthorn garners Burnt Orange Apple Award for outstanding teaching 11/14/06 Global Warming Increases Species Extinctions Worldwide 10/03/06 Study recommends strategies for distributing flu vaccine during shortage 09/27/06 Fire ant-attacking fly spreading rapidly in Texas 09/20/06 Fire ant lab celebrates 20 years of research 08/25/06 Neurobiologist Nace Golding awarded Presidential Early Career Award 08/22/06 Biologist receives $450,000 grant to contribute to asthma research 07/17/06 Neuroscientist Richard Aldrich joins faculty; becomes Chair of the Section of Neurobiology 07/17/06 Dragonflies take flight through entomologist's field study 06/27/06 Fungus does not depend on fungus-farming ants for reproduction, researchers say 06/19/06 Eavesdropping fringe-lipped bats spread culture through sound 06/07/06 Student News: Nathan Hood receives 2006 ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship 05/03/06 Evolution of complex calls and unusual male vocal cords in túngara frogs 04/05/06 Eric Pianka named 2006 Distinguished Scientist by Texas Academy of Science 02/06/06 UT lab studies gender-bending lizard mating 03/08/06 Poison dart frog mimics gain when birds learn to stay away 02/06/06 Dr. Dee Silverthorn awarded distinguished lectureship 12/15/05 New antibody shows promise as cure from anthrax 03/15/05 More than half of Earth's wild species affected by climate change 08/08/03 UT's algae famous the world over 06/01/03 Turtles back home in upgraded ponds Have some good news you'd like to share? 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