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

Shalene Jha has been interested in pollinators her entire life. Now, as an assistant professor, she studies the interactions of native bees and plant communities for a living.

As part of an ongoing tradition, this past spring we invited faculty, staff and students in the College of Natural Sciences community to send us images that celebrated the wondrous beauty of science and the scientific process. We were searching for those moments where science and art meld and become one.

Scientists borrowed tricks from evolution to develop the world's first treatment for late stage inhalation anthrax.

The Nobel Prize-Winning Geneticist Hermann J. Muller did his research on the UT campus.

New study suggests that evolution plays a larger role than previously known in people's intestinal-microbe makeup.

An extremely rare eyeless catfish species previously known to exist only in Mexico has been discovered in a National Recreation Area in Texas.

Researchers at UT Austin find the secret to increasing cotton production.

Microbiologists led by Brett Baker have discovered potential in bacteria that helped to clean up the BP oil spill.

“James Bull’s election to the National Academy honors the significant research he has done in evolutionary and population biology and experimental evolution.”