Susan Kalisz joined EEB as professor and head of department on August 1. She comes to UT from the University of Pittsburgh where she was professor of biological sciences for nineteen years and served as director of graduate studies and chair of the graduate program oversight committee.
Kalisz’s research interests are two-pronged: the mating system and the evolutionary process, and biotic interactions, population fitness, and community invasion.
We keep track of where our PhD students go after they graduate, and we’re proud of what we see! After five years post-graduation, 57% are tenure-track faculty, and 17% are in government jobs (EPA, etc.). Others are in non-tenure-track teaching positions, private industry (Wolfram, SAS, etc.), and more. See the poster for more information.
Graduate student Zach Marion (Fitzpatrick lab) has a new paper out in American Naturalist with Jim Fordyce and Ben Fitzpatrick called “Extending the concept of diversity partitioning to characterize phenotypic complexity.” Congratulations!
Brian Looney (Matheny Lab) has been awarded a US Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Award for his project “From saprotrophy to symbiosis: comparative genomics and functional diversity of a diverse ectomycorrhizal lineage in the Populus mycorrhizome (Russulaceae, Basidiomycota).” The SCGSR program provides supplemental funds for graduate awardees to conduct part of their thesis research at a host DOE laboratory in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist. The award period for the proposed research project at DOE laboratories may range from 3 to 12 consecutive months.
Congratulations, Brian!
The College of Arts & Sciences presented staff awards this year, and Marva Anderson received an award for Outstanding Academic Support at the Staff Appreciation party on May 19. Congratulations! It is a well-deserved honor; EEB could not run without Marva!
