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Welcome to the Department of Biology at Texas State University - San Marcos. The Biology Department is a large, multidisciplinary department with many strong research programs that are well funded. We serve about 11,000 students each year in modern facilities with up to date instrumentation emphasizing inquiry-based hands-on instruction. This year Biology has about 1,200 undergraduate majors and 135 graduate (masters and Ph.D.) students.
Our goal is to attain national and international prominence through integrating undergraduate and graduate education with multidisciplinary research programs. Through our educational, scholarship, and outreach activities, the department will enhance the image of Texas State by using the life sciences to help meet the current and future needs of society in Texas, the United States, and the world.
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- Graduate student Tommy Erwin recently won the OB Williams Award for best student presentation in general microbiology at the annual meeting of the Texas Branch of the American Society for Microbiology. For more info, please click here.
- Professor of Biology Bob McLean was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Award for contributions to the advancement of microbiology in Texas at the annual meeting of the Texas Branch of the American Society for Microbiology. For more info, please click here.
- Congratulations to Sunni Taylor, a biology doctoral student whose paper describing the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation in Irises was recently
featured on the cover of the journal “Evolution”.
- Dr. Jana Johnson , has been nominated to receive the Indianapolis Prize, the world's leading award for animal conservation. Dr Johnson received her M.S in Wildlife Ecology from Texas State University in 1996 and went on to become founder of The Butterfly Project dedicated to endangered butterfly propagation and research. For more info, click here
- Dr. Michael Huston, Professor of Biology, recently published a paper in Ecological Monographs along with his co-author Steve Wolverton entitled “The global distribution of net primary production: resolving the paradox”. This paper was recently selected by Faculty of 1000 Biology as one of the best and most interesting papers published in the biological sciences. For more info,
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- Dr. Nihal Dharmasiri, was awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Development CAREER grant for support of his project entitled "CAREER: Characterization of new Arabidopsis mutants with altered response to auxin."click here
- Dana Garcia, Professor of Biology, was involved in hosting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) professional development day for area middle and high school teachers. For more info, please click here. . click here
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