{"id":3083,"date":"2018-03-28T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=3083"},"modified":"2018-03-29T09:39:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:39:36","slug":"congrats-to-director-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/28\/congrats-to-director-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Director Gross!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Louis J. Gross
NIMBioS Director<\/p><\/div>\n

Congratulations to NIMBioS Director Louis Gross<\/a>, who has received a top award from the Southeastern Conference. Gross was honored with the 2018\u00a0SEC Faculty Achievement Award, the SEC announced today.<\/p>\n

The prestigious, university-level award recognizes professors from the 14 SEC universities who have outstanding records in both teaching and scholarship.\u00a0Honorees from each university receive a $5,000 honorarium and become their university\u2019s nominee for SEC Professor of the Year, to be awarded this spring. The Professor of the Year receives an additional $15,000 honorarium and is recognized at an SEC awards dinner in Destin, Florida.<\/p>\n

The award was established in 2010 by the SEC Presidents and Chancellors. \u00a0There is one winner\/nominee per campus and one overall winner for the SEC.<\/p>\n

To qualify for the award, an individual\u2019s scholarly contribution or discoveries must be such that the faculty member has been acknowledged by colleagues within the discipline nationally or internationally.<\/p>\n

In addition to NIMBioS, Gross also directs UT’s Institute for Environmental Modeling.\u00a0He is an\u00a0an Alvin and Sally Beaman Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics.<\/p>\n

Gross has developed quantitative methods to address problems in disease ecology, landscape ecology, plant ecology, conservation biology, and natural resource management. He is a leader in educational initiatives in quantitative methods for life science students.<\/p>\n

He recently co-led a study<\/a> examining how humans react to climate change. He and colleagues paired a standard climate model with a mathematical formulation of the social psychological theory of planned behavior to explore how people would hypothetically respond to their changing environment and how this impacts future global temperatures.<\/p>\n

Since 1990, Gross has been a principal investigator on more than 35 externally funded research and education projects with combined funding of more than $51 million. He has had continuous support since 1992 from the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n

Gross is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Society for Mathematical Biology.<\/p>\n

Last year, Suzanne Lenhart, NIMBioS Associate Director for Education and Outreach, was a recipient<\/a> of the SEC Faculty Achievement Award.<\/p>\n

More information about the announcement from the SEC can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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