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Announcing the annual Focus on Biology science imaging contest

Focust 2019 banner    The Biodiversity Center and the Department of Integrative Biology is pleased to announce the annual Focus on Biology science imaging contest! Focus on Biology celebrates visual explorations of our research in the form of photographs, micrographs, figures, and illustrations. Contest winners and honorable mentions will be printed ...

Sprinting for Dung Beetles

i bTQbJc4 4KPhoto by Alex Wild. February 2nd was an unusually warm Saturday for winter, even in Central Texas. Many took the opportunity to work in the yard, exercise, lounge in the sun, but in Welsh Hall on campus, about 20 UT undergraduates were instead hovering over 3000 dung beetles. This was for an event called “Science Sprints,” one-day intensives tha...
A Mile-Long Classroom

A Mile-Long Classroom

   Marie Lorenz captured the work of freshman design Paige Giordano by Kristin Phillips, Communications & Events Coordinator in the Office of Sustainability A physics professor looks for elusive wood ducks on daily walks to the gym; an engineering class collects vials of water to determine alkalinity; a theater group—barefoot and...
Fire Ants and their Phorid Fly Foes: Brackenridge Field Lab and Biodiversity Collections Engage Visitors at UT Explore 2018

Fire Ants and their Phorid Fly Foes: Brackenridge Field Lab and Biodiversity Collections Engage Visitors at UT Explore 2018

UT Explore was held on Saturday March 3rd, drawing a large crowd of families, students, and teachers. The annual event seeks to encourage community interest in research and higher education, and the important impact UT has on Austin and the world at large.

Students of Texas Lutheran University visit the Plant Resources Center

Students of Texas Lutheran University visit the Plant Resources Center

  We at the Plant Resources Center had the pleasure of receiving Dr. Alan Lievens' class from Texas Lutheran University to talk to them about The Plant Resources Center and the importance of Natural History collections. Students were very enthusiastic and learned about historical and ecological importance of specimens, and the history of the P...
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