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Vishal Kennedy, the 2025 National Wildlife Federation Graduate Student EcoLeader Community Research Fellow, is a doctoral student researcher in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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The College of Arts and Sciences hosted its annual awards ceremony on Monday, March 31, 2025, at the UT Conference Center in downtown Knoxville. The annual ceremony honors faculty members in all areas of the college’s mission, selected by their colleagues as representatives of the high standards of the college’s faculty as a whole. Awards were given for excellence in teaching, advising, and mentoring; academic outreach; research and creative activity; and more.
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The MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship is a two-year position that includes a generous salary and research stipend. Fellows are fully participating members of EEB with cutting-edge research programs and innovative community engagement initiatives, mentored by two or more EEB faculty members.
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Four faculty members at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have been elected 2024 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS Fellows are elected to a lifetime appointment annually by their peers on the AAAS Council in recognition of their extraordinary achievements.
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The Richard and Minnie Windler award recognizes the best papers in ecology and systematics published in the journal Castanea in 2024. The paper acknowledges support from the Hesler Fund, as well as extensive use of UT Herbarium resources. Two of the co-authors (Jordan Reed and Cory Hale) participated in the project when they were EEB undergraduates. One outcome of the research was to help TDEC with conservation stewardship of the White Fringeless Orchid (Platanthera integrilabia), a Federally-Listed endangered species.
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The Volunteer of Distinction awards celebrate academic excellence among undergraduate and graduate students. Students are selected to be honored as Volunteers of Distinction in recognition of their extraordinary academic achievement, professional promise, teaching (graduate students), or research.
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Humans can have a lot to consider when working out the best choices for their needs: buying a car, choosing a home, or just shopping for groceries. An overwhelming number of options can give a person pause. Animals experience this same phenomenon in their decision making: choice overload.
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Paul Armsworth, Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has received a 2025 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award for excellence in teaching, research and service.
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Biologist Charles Darwin would be 216 years-old this month, and museum educators and UT scientists at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture are celebrating with Darwin Day on February 23.
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Seven faculty members from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville — five from the Tickle College of Engineering and two from the College of Arts and Sciences — have been named to Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list for 2024. The honor is bestowed on only one in 1,000 of the world’s scientists and social scientists.