Author Archives: Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS Team Receives Best Publication Award

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

A paper on epidemic disease dynamics by a group of NIMBioS-associated researchers has won the prestigious Lord Robert May Best Paper Prize from the Journal of Biological Dynamics. “The impact of spatial arrangements on epidemic disease dynamics and intervention strategies” … Continue reading →

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Gross Named Fellow of Society for Mathematical Biology

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

Congrats to NIMBioS Director Louis J. Gross on being named a Fellow in the inaugural class of Fellows of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB). A distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville … Continue reading →

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A Predator-Prey Model of Poverty Traps, New Paper from Ngonghala

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

Former NIMBioS postdoc Calistus Ngonghala has published a new paper that draws on economic, ecological and epidemiological models to examine the underlying drivers of rural poverty. “General ecological models for human subsistence, heath and poverty,” published this month in Nature … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Welcomes Dr. Gross

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

KNOXVILLE—Louis J. Gross has been named the new NIMBioS director, effective July 1, 2017. Gross is a distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the founding director of NIMBioS and director of … Continue reading →

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Synthesis Centers Provide the ‘Special Sauce’

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

Synthesis centers like NIMBioS provide the special sauce that make the research magic happen. But you already knew that, didn’t you, dear reader? A new paper published this week in BioScience argues that synthesis centers provide the critical research infrastructure … Continue reading →

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Grizzlies Feel the Heat

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

A short term visit to NIMBioS two years ago has resulted in a study showing the effect of climate change on the diets of grizzly bears in Yellowstone. Lead author Jack Hopkins, an assistant professor of wildlife biology at Unity … Continue reading →

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2017 Summer Research Program Begins

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

Sixteen undergraduates and a middle school math teacher began their summer research with NIMBioS on Monday. The Summer Research Experience (SRE) program runs for eight weeks, from June 5-July 28. Participants come from across the United States to work in … Continue reading →

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Major Accomplishments: The 9th Annual Report, NIMBioS Edition

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS’ 9th annual reporting period to the National Science Foundation, which largely funds the institute, recently concluded, and the 220-page report has been submitted to NSF.  NSF requires its funded institutes to dig into the details as to the number of … Continue reading →

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Gavrilets Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

Congratulations are in order for NIMBioS’ own Sergey Gavrilets who has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is one of 228 national and international scholars, artists, philanthropists, and business leaders in the class … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS-UT Partner to Help Students With Disabilities

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS and UT have partnered to create a new organization on campus — the STEM Alliance — which aims to improve the success of students with disabilities in the STEM disciplines. The STEM Alliance is part of the South East … Continue reading →

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