Author Archives: Catherine Crawley

New Roster of Summer Undergrads Announced

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS is pleased to announce the 17 participants selected for its highly competitive 2017 Summer Research Experience (SRE) program. The participants, which this year include one middle school math teacher, were selected from a pool of more than 100 applicants. The program runs for eight weeks, … Continue reading →

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New Ideas Incubating at NIMBioS

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS hosted its first ever Synthesis Incubator on the theme of “Emerging Risks, Measured Responses” last week, which brought together researchers and various local, state and federal stakeholders to discuss topics and generate ideas for collaboration. Through roundtable discussions and … Continue reading →

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Blackwell-Tapia Conference Makes the Grade

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

The final report of the ninth annual Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Award Ceremony, held Oct. 28-29, is out and feedback from the participant feedback shows that by all measures the conference was a success. NIMBioS was the lead organizing institute, along with … Continue reading →

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Science Pub for Postdoc Martin

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

Research on adaptation and climate change by Ryan Martin while a postdoc at NIMBioS appears this month in Science. “Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection” quantifies how climate variation influences selection. With plant and animal data from multiple terrestrial biomes, temperature explained … Continue reading →

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Discover Birds En Español

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

The popular Discover Birds Activity Book for kids in which NIMBioS contributed some math content has now been translated into Spanish and has even reached Cuban shores. In the book, Campeones de Aves, “Bird Champions,” is a simple math puzzle … Continue reading →

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Congrats to Professor Lenhart!

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

Congratulations to Suzanne Lenhart, NIMBioS Associate Director for Education and Outreach and UT professor of mathematics, who has been nominated for the Southeastern Conference Professor of the Year award. The prestigious, university-level award recognizes those with outstanding records in both … Continue reading →

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Optimal Control Paper Highly Sought

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

The NIMBioS Working Group Optimal Control for Agent-based Models has been busy blazing a trail: its perspective paper  on agent-based models in biology published last fall in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology has been downloaded 500 times. “Optimization and Control … Continue reading →

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Now Showing: Program Evaluation 101

Posted on February 15, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

As a part of the NIMBioS-NISER partnership, we are pleased to present Program Evaluation 101, a previously recorded webinar on the basic concepts of multi-scale program evaluation for STEM education. The goal of the webinar is to introduce the key concepts … Continue reading →

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Gross Joins National Committee to Take On Data Science

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS Director Emeritus Louis Gross has been invited to join a select group of scientists and engineers from around the country to serve on a National Academies of Sciences committee to set a vision for the emerging discipline of data science … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Postdocs: Where Are They Now?

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Catherine Crawley

Where do NIMBioS postdoctoral fellows go upon completion of their fellowship? More than 85% of NIMBioS postdoctoral fellows accept faculty positions at the world’s top institutions (Top 500, Shanghai Rankings), a far higher success rate than most postdoctoral programs. Postdocs … Continue reading →

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