Gilchrist Chair of Dean’s Advisory Council
Mike Gilchrist is the new chair of the Dean’s Faculty Advisory Council. Congratulations, Mike!
Archives for September 2015
NSF Grant for Schussler
Beth Schussler has been awarded an NSF grant worth almost $500,000:
RCN-UBE: Biology Teaching Assistant Project (BioTAP 2.0): Advancing Research, Synthesizing Evidence
This is a national research coordination network designed to support GTA professional development for teaching by enhancing assessment and evaluation of training programs, and supporting faculty and staff in their delivery and assessment of these programs.
Congratulations!
Gavrilets on NPR
Sergey Gavrilets is co-organizing a workshop on warfare this week at NIMBioS, called “Evolutionary approaches to the understanding of decentralized warfare.“He was recently interviewed on NPR because of the workshop. Gavrilets’s research on warfare has attracted other media attention in the past, including Huffington Post, Popular Mechanics, and Nature.
His interview was featured in Tennessee Today.