News: Accolades

Adjunct professor Harry Greene received the W. Frank Blair Eminent Naturalist Award at the 2026 annual meeting of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists.

Norma Fowler received the George B. Fell Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 Natural Areas Association national meeting.

Using autonomous sensors, he and collaborators will track how biodiversity changes in Ecuador across space and time.

Outstanding undergraduates, graduate students and faculty were honored for achievements in research, teaching and mentoring.

John Chisholm, Jonathan Perry and Ann Thijs were recognized for their commitment to curricular reform and educational innovation.

As a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, the professor of integrative biology is leading cutting-edge exploration alongside collaborators in Brazil.

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.

Arbel Harpak, recently named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, researches how genetic makeup can have dramatically different impacts on health and evolution in males and females.