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A&S in the News

This section of Dialogue features external media coverage faculty, staff, and students in our college received. Links are sourced from UT System News Roundup. If you have a news item, please email Amanda Womac.

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Department News & Noteworthy Achievements

This section of Dialogue features internal news and noteworthy achievements by faculty, staff, and students in our college. If you have a news item, please email Amanda Womac.

jake alexander

Jake Alexander, a graduate student in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, received the Warren L. and Florence W. Calvert Memorial Scholarship from the Houston Geological Society. Read More

annette engel

Annette Engel, a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, coauthored a study published in the American Society for Microbiology’s journal mSystems. Read More

Susan Kalisz

Susan Kalisz, professor and head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and former post-doctoral fellow Mason Heberling, now assistant curator of botany at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, received the Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) George Mercer Award for a paper published in February 2019. Read More

mary mcalpin

Mary McAplin, professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, was appointed to the PMLA Editorial Board.

kenneth mcfarland

Kenneth McFarland, emeritus greenhouse manager and lecturer in the UT Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, recently co-authored a paper in Frontiers in Plant Science titled “Population Genomics and Phylogeography of a Clonal Bryophyte With Spatially Separated Sexes and Extreme Sex Ratios.” Read More

Casey Morean

Physics Graduate Student Casey Morean is among 62 graduate students nationwide recently selected for the US Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program. Read More

This spring, three undergraduate students in the math honors program graduated and were accepted into prestigious graduate programs for fall 2020. Read More