Representing over a quarter of this year’s university-wide honorees, these exceptional faculty members are recognized for their excellence in teaching, research and mentoring at Texas A&M.
The award reinforces the university’s significant role in shaping the next generation of STEM leaders and its partnership with the Beckman Foundation to encourage outstanding undergraduate researchers and promising new avenues in the sciences.
Texas A&M biologist Dr. Chris Butler encourages his students to see the world in a new light through the study of birds, expanding their potential and his own horizons while proving that a professor’s passion can inspire generations to soar.
Dr. Dulin, an associate professor in the Department of Biology at Texas A&M, will present the 2024-25 Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Lecture, set for 12:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, in Room 025 of the Biological Sciences Building West.
For the second consecutive year, three faculty members in the Department of Biology have received National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Awards (MIRA) recognizing their sustained research potential in bacterial and applied phage biology, neurobiology, and behavioral and evolutionary biology.
Abbi Evans '26 overcame a serious spinal cord injury suffered as a junior in high school and is now conducting research on that very topic in the lab of Texas A&M biologist and former TIRR Foundation Fellow Dr. Jennifer Dulin '05.
Ever since he was nine years old, Texas A&M biology graduate and current medical student Patrick Monday knew he wanted to reach the summit of Mount Everest. In May, he stood on top of the world and achieved his lifelong dream.
Texas A&M zoology graduates Jim ’68 and Jon Chancellor ’71, together with their wives, have created scholarships to support first-generation students in the Arts and Sciences Leadership Scholars Program.
