Author Archives: Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS Welcomes New Postdocs, Sabbatical Fellows

NIMBioS welcomes new postdoctoral and sabbatical fellows in the coming months to continue their research at the interface of mathematics and biology. The following postdocs arrive in August for their two-year long fellowship: Jeremy Beaulieu (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale) … Continue reading

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NIMBioS Website Wins International Award

NIMBioS is pleased to announce that our website has won an international award for excellence in technical communication from the Society for Technical Communication’s (STC) 2012 International Summit Awards. The Award of Excellence is given to an entry that “demonstrates an … Continue reading

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Lessons from Darwin: Hip-Hop Version

NIMBioS Songwriter-in-Residence Baba Brinkman brought his hip-hop exploration of modern biology to an enthusiastic audience at UT last week when he performed an hour-long excerpt from his critically acclaimed Off-Broadway show, “Rap Guide to Evolution.” He was accompanied by DJ … Continue reading

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NIMBioS in DC Today at USA Science & Engineering Festival

NIMBioS is excited to join representatives from UT’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology today at the country’s largest national science festival. The aim of the 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival is to increase the public’s awareness of the … Continue reading

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The Future Home of NIMBioS: Move Set for April

Renovations are nearly complete at the new NIMBioS facilities at 1122 Volunteer Boulevard, and NIMBioS is expected to open for business in the new space on Monday, April 16. The new office space on the first and second floors of … Continue reading

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NIMBioS Announces New Songwriter-in-Residence: Baba Brinkman

NIMBioS is pleased to announce that educational hip-hop artist Baba Brinkman will be joining NIMBioS as its new Songwriter-in-Residence in April and May. Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist, writer, actor and tree planter. He is best known for his … Continue reading

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The Story of a Scientific Collaboration: How One Nature Paper Came to Be

Having a few linear algebraists as co-workers can come in handy — especially near Halloween — when one is stuck on a knotty mathematical biology problem with no clear solution. This proved to be the case for NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow … Continue reading

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NIMBioS Responds to the Googleopoly

While the Google Empire rolls out controversial changes to its privacy rules today that track users across multiple services, NIMBioS also makes some changes of its own with regard to privacy and usage of our web site — changes that … Continue reading

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Lande Visits NIMBioS

Distinguished theoretical biologist Russell Lande visited NIMBioS yesterday and gave a seminar talk on the topic of phenotypic plasticity. Lande’s talk, “Adaptation to an extraordinary environment by evolution of phenotypic plasticity and genetic assimilation,” filled a packed classroom. Lande was … Continue reading

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The Noes Have It

Following a lively public debate on the role of warfare in early social evolution, a sea of hands waving blue cards with the words “anti-thesis” indicated that the majority of the audience believed the antithesis debaters had won the day: … Continue reading

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