Biodiversity Blog
History of UT Botany, Part 3: Curator Mary Sophie Young
This piece was originally published in January 2017 in the Dept. of Integrative Biology History Project. The third blog in our UT botany history series focuses on Marie Sophie Young. In 1912, Young became the first official curator of the relatively new herbarium at UT, when the university was only 29 years old. She was an early Texas STEM educator...
History of UT Botany, Part 2: the Herbaria
This is an updated post that originally ran on March 13, 2017 in the Integrative Biology History Project Lundell Herbarium 1964 specimen of Hibiscus lasiocarpus Cav. Few landmarks on the UT campus are as iconic as the Tower, visible to thousands daily as part of the Austin skyscape. Yet, not many people realize that eight diffe...
History of UT Botany, Part 1: The Beginnings
Front and back of 1904 photo by HB Buck. (From Dolph Briscoe Center for American History). "Department of Botany U of T, Cooperia drummondii, Rain 'lilly', Campus U of T, April 20, '04. From HB Buck, 400 W. 38th St. Austin, TX." This blog starts off the new series for our Biodiversity Collections, with the focus on botany and what is now c...
Entomology Collection Outreach Events
The Entomology Collection at the WFC by Abby Jones (she/her), BS Biology: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Minor in Spanish, College of Natural Sciences '25 The UT Entomology Collection was invited to table at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center this past weekend during the science hour before Dr. Jen Lau’s talk “Human Threats t...
