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Department of Biology Assistant Professor Wins NSF Career Award
Dr. Yongjian Qiu will use the $1 million award to aid in discovering gene expression mechanisms in plant thermomorphogenesis. The National Science Foundation Career Awards are highly prestigious and only offered to faculty members who demonstrate the potential to serve as teacher-scholar
Read MoreBuilding Consensus Around the Assessment and Interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae Diversity
Dr. Tammy Goulet coauthored the manuscript that will be published in the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ. Below is the abstract and the international team of co-authors. Abstract Within microeukaryotes, genetic variation and functional variation sometimes accumulate more quickly than
Read MoreCan Trees Communicate Underground? Maybe Not
M biology professor debunks popular theory about soil fungal networks February 13, 2023 by Erin Garrett FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailCopy LinkSMSPrintFriendly Share Biology professor Jason Hoeksema (right) has published a paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution that debunks a theory that
Read MoreTEDx University of Mississippi Speakers Look to Face Forward
Eight speakers set for Feb. 23 event JANUARY 23, 2023 BY STAFF REPORT FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailCopy LinkSMSPrintFriendlyShare UM student Jakob Anseman shares his experiences of living with Asperger’s syndrome and discusses the social and economic challenges faced by people with autism
Read MoreGrowing High School STEM Outreach Program Led by Graduate Student
Inspiring passion for science-related fields in the next generation of scholars DECEMBER 12, 2022 BY ABIGAIL MARTIN Savannah Draud, a doctoral student in biology at the University of Mississippi, is spending time at local high schools to help increase science literacy in an effort to
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