News: Accolades

Vagheesh Narasimhan had an extraordinary achievement in original research, providing clues to human evolution.

The Biodiversity Center director penned “Armadillos to Ziziphus,” a celebration of life in the Texas Hill Country.

The awards from the National Science Foundation support innovative work by earlier-career faculty.

Nancy Moran receives the Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences.

Caroline Farrior has been awarded for her research on forest ecosystem dynamics through mathematical modeling.

Mathew Leibold, a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin, was elected a fellow by the Ecological Society of America (ESA).