Division and Alumni News
8/26/20
Eight ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ student-athletes have been honored by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education as recipients of the 2020 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar award. Three of the eight recipients are biology majors: (senior, basketball), (junior, gymnastics) and (junior, volleyball).
Pioneers@Work are testing for COVID-19
8/20/20
²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ alumni at the American Institute of Toxicology (AIT) Laboratories, a division of HealthTrackRx, are at the forefront of the battle against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). AIT employees, including 23 graduates of ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ STEM programs, have been working around the clock to conduct, aid and enhance COVID-19 detection within 24-48 hours of sample receipt.
²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ launches new biotechnology master’s degree
6/15/20
To support one of the state’s top six industry sectors with greatest economic growth potential — biotechnology and life sciences — Texas Woman’s University will launch a new program this fall that combines biology and business with an industry internship.
Butterfly garden wins Business Yard of the Month award
5/19/20
The ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ Bettye Myers Butterfly Garden has received the May Business Yard of the Month award from Keep Denton Beautiful. Designated as a Monarch Waystation, the butterfly garden boasts a lovely variety of flowers, including coneflowers (bachelor buttons), poppies, evening primrose, larkspur, phlox, gerbera daisy, and cornflowers. Find Phase II of this garden by the Little Chapel in-the-Woods and enjoy the Carroll Abbott Wildlife Sanctuary. The sanctuary is a section of the garden dedicated to the memory of Carroll Abbott.
5/11/20
"Give the humble potato (Solanum tuberosum) a place in your vegetable garden," writes Nat Mills, Ph.D., a professor in the ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ Department of Biology and guest contributor for the Denton County Master Gardner Association.