Lou Gross Named 2022 Macebearer
Lou Gross receives the 2022 Macebearer Award, UT’s highest faculty honor.
Student Combines Math and Nutrition to Improve Race Performance
A PhD student’s passion for marathon running inspired a model that accurately accounts for in-race nutrition when developing a runner’s optimal finishing time.
Manderscheid to Direct NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences
Mathematics Professor David Manderscheid will direct the National Science Foundation’s Division of Mathematical Sciences beginning January 31.
Army Grant Supports Machine Learning Research
A mathematics professor is developing a method that employs artificial intelligence to clearly understand the electrical brain activity data conveyed through electroencephalogram monitoring.
Mathematician Develops Model to Control Spread of Aquatic Invasive Species
An applied mathematician at UT has developed a partial differential equation model to find the desired flow rate to reduce invasive populations.
UT Already has Tenure Assessment System, Says Plaut in KNS Op-Ed
In a recent letter to the editor of the News Sentinel, UT math professor Conrad Plaut explains that the faculty previously interviewed by the News Sentinel concerning the enhanced post-tenure performance review proposed by the Board of Trustees, don’t speak for all UT faculty.
Gross Receives 2018 SEC Faculty Achievement Award
Louis Gross has been honored with the 2018 SEC Faculty Achievement Award. His research focuses on using computational and mathematical tools to address environmental problems.
Curbing Climate Change: A Study Led by Louis Gross
Earther featured a study lead by researchers from UT and the University of Vermont about the climate model that factors in how humans react to climate change.
NIMBioS Study: Curbing Climate Change
Humans may be the dominant cause of global temperature rise, but they may also be a crucial factor in helping to reduce it.
Gross Named Fellow of Society for Mathematical Biology
Louis J. Gross has been named a Fellow in the inaugural class of Fellows of the Society for Mathematical Biology. A distinguished UT professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics, Gross is also the founding and current director of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) and director of UT’s Institute for
Huffington Post, Medical Daily Feature Gavrilets Extremist Behavior Study
Sergey Gavrilets, distinguished professor of ecology, evolutionary biology and mathematics at UT recently published a study explaining what may motivate individuals to take part in extremist behaviors.
NIMBioS Researchers Study the Power of Social Norms
A new study from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, based at UT, sheds light on the origins of human cooperation.