In the News
- 08/20/13 Dr. Arturo De Lozanne (MCDB) and Dr. Sata Sathasivan (SBS) are two of the 26 faculty at UT who will receive a Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award for 2013.
- 08/07/13 Thank you to our staff and lecturers and to the supporters of the 2013 School of Biological Sciences Staff Appreciation and Farewell Luncheon.
- 07/26/13 Vivian Esparza (biology major) has won a scholarship for her role in organizing a blood drive by the Hispanic Health Professions Organization.
- 07/15/13 $2.7 million from the Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation will help establish the Texas Invasive Species Program at UT.
- 05/23/13 The Austin American-Statesman does a profile on Dr. Camille Parmesan (IB), who was recently named the 2013 Distinguished Texas Scientist.
- 05/22/13 We would like to congratulate our 2013 School of Biological Sciences Staff Service Award recipients.
- 05/14/13 Ten teaching assistants in the School of Biological Sciences were given awards for their outstanding service.
- 05/07/13 Dr. Greg Clark (SBS) awarded the 2013 College of Natural Sciences Outreach Excellence Award for his work with the Freshman Research Initiative.
- 05/07/13 Dr. Ila Fiete (NB), Dr. Christine Hawkes (IB), Dr. Sara Sawyer (MGM), Dr. Richard Taylor (SBS),and Dr. Steven Vokes (MCDB) were awarded CNS Teaching Excellence Awards for 2013.
- 05/06/13 The 2013 Lorene Morrow Kelley Distinguished Lecture entitled "From Peppers to Pit Vipers: Natural Products As Probes of the Pain Pathway" by Dr. David Julius.
- 04/19/13 Dr. Theresa O'Halloran (MCDB) was named to UT's Academy of Distinguished Teachers for 2013.
- 04/15/13 Bonnie Cole, a Dean's Scholars Honors biology major, was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for her research work with Dr. Alan Lloyd (MCDB).
- 04/02/13 Andrew Tilker (EEB) was awarded a conservation grant for a new technique using DNA analysis of leeches to count the population of a rare bovine.
- 03/25/13 The John Ring LaMontagne Chair in Infectious Diseases and Global Health endowment has reached its $1 Million Goal.
- 03/15/13 Dr. Bridget Nugent (IB postdoc) is the first recipient of the WC Young Recent Graduate Award from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology.
- 03/06/13 Dr. Ruth Buskirk (SBS) was given the President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award for 2013, which recognizes excellence in undergraduate teaching.
- 03/01/13 Dr. Ruth Buskirk, a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in SBS, was named one of the Texas Exes's Texas 10 for 2013.
- 02/28/13 Dr. Camille Parmesan (IB) has been named the 2013 Distinguished Texas Scientist by the Texas Academy of Science.
- 12/06/12 UT Austin formally launched its Health Information Exchange (HIE) laboratory which will be part of our pioneering Health IT program.
- 11/29/12 Dr. Bob Krug (MGM Chair) has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- 11/16/12 Da'Marcus Baymon, a neurobiology senior, was one of two UT Austin students to receive this year's Texas Parents Outstanding Student Award.
- 10/18/12 Two of our Senior Lecturers, Dr. John Abbott and Dr. Ray Neubauer, were runners-up for this year's Hamilton Book Awards.
- 10/16/12 Several grad students have founded an outreach program where they present their Ph.D. Thesis in a manner accessible to students in K-12.
- 10/03/12 The University of Texas at Austin is in the top 25 of the world's elite universities in the 2012-13 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
- 09/24/12 Dr. Shalene Jha (IB) has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.
- 09/14/12 John Crutchfield, resident manager of Brackenridge Field Laboratory, retires after 50 years of service.
- 09/05/12 Results from the first year of the Course Transformation Project show positive trends for the success of students.
- 09/02/12 John Crutchfield, resident manager of Brackenridge Field Laboratory, retires after 50 years of service.
- 08/28/12 Dianne Lou of the Sawyer Lab (MGM) has been awarded a prestigious MD-PhD training fellowship from the National Cancer Institute.
- 08/22/12 Dr. Jennifer Morgan (MCDB) and Dr. Terry O'Halloran (MCDB) were both given 2012 Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards.
- 08/14/12 Dr. Reba Howard (NB) was given a national award at the Research Society on Alcoholism's annual meeting.
- 08/08/12 The Health Information Technology Certificate program graduated 63 more qualified professionals this past July.
- 08/02/12 Dr. Shelley Payne (MGM) will be joining the dean's office as the new associate dean for faculty affairs.
- 08/02/12 Dr Tom Juenger (IB) has received $1.5 million from the Department of Energy to study native prairie grasses as potential sources of biofuel.
- 08/01/12 The new Biology Photo Calendar is now out, featuring great shots by our students, faculty, and staff.
- 07/25/12 Thank you to our staff and to the supporters of the 2012 School of Biological Sciences Staff Appreciation Luncheon.
- 06/22/12 Drs. Rebecca "Reba" Howard and Andrés Vidal-Gadea are the inaugural recipients of a new award for postdocs.
- 05/24/12 The Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research receives a $3.3 million grant to develop medication to treat alcoholism and drug addiction.
- 05/24/12 Dr. Russell Poldrack (NB) discusses "Risk Taking: The good, the bad, and the brain" on Game Changers.
- 05/16/12 We would like to congratulate SBS staff members who have won awards this year.
- 05/15/12 Dr. Chris Sullivan (MGM) has been named a 2012 Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
- 05/10/12 Ten teaching assistants in the School of Biological Sciences were given awards for their outstanding service.
- 04/25/12 The 15th annual College of Natural Sciences Honors and Awards banquet honored many of our staff and faculty.
- 04/24/12 Dr. Linda Hicke of Northwestern University has been named the new dean of the College of Natural Sciences.
- 04/20/12 Dr. Chris Thomas, a biology alumnus, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the world's top scientific honors.
- 04/10/12 Dr. David Crews (IB) and Dr. Andrea Gore (Pharmacy) discuss 'Living in a Contaminated World' on Game Changers.
- 03/05/12 Dr. Larry Gilbert (IB) was named as the 2012 Distinguished Texas Scientist.
- 03/01/12 Dr. William Press (IB) has been named President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- 02/23/12 Dr. Laura Colgin (NB) is one of five scientists at UT to be awarded a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship.
- 02/03/12 Science Under The Stars (IB) has been awarded grant funding from BEACON, the NSF Center for the Study of Evolution in Action.
- 01/26/12 Dr. Lauren Meyers (IB) was featured on the Longorn Network's show Game Changers.
- 01/23/12 Dr. Nicola Davies, SBS Lecturer, was chosen to receive one of the 2012 Texas Exes Teaching Awards.
- 12/20/11 Dr. Jeff Chen (MCDB) and Dr. Mike Ryan (IB) have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
- 12/15/11 Our most recent issue of In Vivo is now available as a PDF online, featuring stories on epigenetics and the Course Transformation Project.
- 12/12/11 The School has a new shirt available for purchase for only $10.
- 12/02/11 Drs. George Georgiou (MGM), Vishy Iyer (MGM), Philip Tucker (MGM), Jason Upton (MGM - starting January 2012), and Steven Vokes (MCDB) are bringing in almost $5 million in CPRIT funds for cancer research.
- 10/25/11 Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers (IB) has been named the new Director of the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation.
- 10/17/11 Dr. George Georgiou (MGM) has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
- 09/30/11 Dr. Sara Sawyer (MGM) has received a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
- 09/14/11 Dr. Jiwoon Lee (MCDB) receives a Career-Starter Research Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation.
- 08/25/11 Dr. Jeff Gross (MCDB), Dr. Marty Shankland (MCDB), and Dr. Dee Silverthorn (SBS) have each been awarded Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards for 2011.
- 08/23/11 Thank you to the supporters of the 2011 School of Biological Sciences Staff Appreciation Luncheon.
- 08/17/11 Two new SBS Faculty members, Dr. Jonghwan Kim (MCDB) and Dr. Kyle Miller (MGM), were each awarded $2 million recruitment grants from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas.
- 07/28/11 Jae Seo Pi, one of our undergraduate biology majors (neurobiology option), was named an outstanding citizen in the 24th Congressional District of Texas.
- 06/24/11 Dr. Jeff Gross (MCDB), Dr. Marty Shankland (MCDB), and Dr. Dee Silverthorn (SBS) have all been awarded Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards for 2011.
- 05/24/11 Dr. David A. Laude, senior associate dean for academic affairs, has been appointed interim dean of the College of Natural Sciences.
- 05/11/11 Dr. Dee Silverthorn (SBS) has received an Outstanding Alumna Award from her alma mater, Tulane University.
- 05/03/11 "Damselflies of Texas" is a new guide by John Abbott (SBS) which covers the 77 species of damselflies in Texas and is illustrated by Barrett Klein, a doctoral graduate of our EEB program.
- 04/28/11 Dr. Richard Aldrich (NB) has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
- 04/23/11 We would like to congratulate our faculty and staff who have won 2011 Excellence awards for teaching and for service.
- 04/22/11 Dean Mary Ann Rankin will be leaving UT to lead the National Math and Science Initiative.
- 04/07/11 Tanya Paull (MGM) has been awarded a CPRIT grant of $1 million to study how double-stranded DNA is repaired after it breaks and how pathways to DNA repair affect the development of tumors.
- 04/05/11 Genevieve Allen, a Dean's Scholars Honors Biology major, has been selected as a 2011 Truman Scholar.
- 04/01/11 Misha Matz (IB) has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award of almost $700,000 from the National Science Foundation.
- 03/16/11 Alexander Huk (NB) has been chosen as the 2011 winner of the Elsevier/Vision Sciences Society Young Investigator Award.
- 03/14/11 Jordan Lewandowski, a student in the lab of Steven Vokes (MCDB), worked with students from the School of Businessto win top prize last month at the Wake Forest University Biotechnology Conference and Case Competition.
- 03/09/11 John Goutier, Manager of Electronic Services for SBS, has been awarded a well-deserved University Staff Excellence Award for 2011.
- 03/03/2011 Jonathan Pillow (NB) has been named a recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship for 2011.
- 02/17/11 The Health Information Technology program will have new classroom space in NHB starting in June.
- 02/10/11 Sata Sathasivan (SBS) is lead faculty on a proposal to improve the introductory biology course through the use of technology as an inaugural recipient of the provost's Course Transformation Program (CTP).
- 02/10/11 You are invited to attend the Spring 2011 Lorene Morrow Kelley Distinguished Lecture, given by Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in ACES 2.302.
- 02/07/11 Christian Rabeling, a graduate of our EEB program and a former student of Ulrich Mueller (IB) has been awarded a 3-year Harvard Society Fellowship.
- 01/04/11 James Skipper, a Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in SBS for many years, passed away on December 31, 2010.
- 11/09/10 Jeff Chen (MCDB) has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to work at the University of Cambridge beginning January 2011.
- 09/21/10 Thank You to the Supporters of the 2010 School of Biological Sciences Staff Appreciation Luncheon.
- 09/07/10 Beryl Simpson (IB) has been selected as the recipient of the 2010 Jose Cuatrecasas Medal of Excellence in Tropical Botany from the Smithsonian Institution. The medal is awarded annually to a botanist and scholar of international stature who has made significant contributions to the field of tropical botany.
- 08/26/10 UT’s new Health Information Technology program, led by Program Director Leanne Field (SBS), receives $2.7 million in federal funding.
- 07/07/10 Paul Szaniszlo (Molecular Genetics & Microbiology) was awarded the 2010 Rhoda Benham Award by the Medical Mycological Society of the Americas for his contributions to medical mycology. More on Szaniszlo can be found on his website...
- 07/01/10 Tanya Paull (Molecular Genetics & Microbiology) receives $527,974 from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to work on a protein in human cells that she and her colleagues discovered can sense oxidative stress.
- 05/25/10 Mike Ryan (Integrative Biology) is honored this month by the American Society of Naturalists with the E.O. Wilson Naturalist Award for his work in animal behavior.
- 04/25/10 Sahotra Sarkar (Integrative Biology) urges that locals be consulted and their needs taken into account in creating preserves, parks.
- 04/13/10 David Hillis (Integrative Biology) has received an Einstein Professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences...
- 04/07/10 The Imaging Research Center, run by Russell Poldrack (Neurobiology) receives $3.8 million in American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funds...
- 02/03/10 You are invited to attend the Spring 2010 Lorene Morrow Kelley Distinguished Lecturer Series on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in ACES 2.302
- 01/19/10 Scientists Identify Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park As One of Most Biodiverse Places on Earth
- 12/11/09 The Writing Teacher...Ruth Franks has been helping natural sciences students learn how to write better as a means of better understanding science
- 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
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