Category Archives: Leadership

Lenhart Awarded UT’s Highest Faculty Honor

NIMBioS Associate Director for Education, Outreach & Diversity Suzanne Lenhart has been named a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of Tennessee (UT), where she is professor of mathematics. This is the highest lifetime honor that can be awarded to UT … Continue reading

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Lenhart Named SIAM Fellow

Dr. Suzanne Lenhart, professor of mathematics at the Univ. of Tennessee and NIMBioS Associate Director for Education, Outreach and Diversity, has been selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The fellowship honors SIAM members … Continue reading

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Visit from UT Interim President

UT Interim President Jan Simek stopped by the other day during our bi-annual Board of Advisors Meeting. Board member Ellis McKenzie (NIH) and Simek were roommates as freshman at UC Santa Cruz back in the day.

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Riechert Appointed by Governor to ‘Race to the Top’ Advisory Council

Susan Riechert, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the Univ. of Tennessee and senior NIMBioS collaborator, was recently appointed by Gov. Phil Bredesen to the Tennessee Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Advisory Council to help direct Tennessee’s strategic … Continue reading

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Congratulations Dr. Hickling, Scholar of the Week

Graham J. Hickling, director of the University of Tennessee’s Center for Wildlife Health and associate director of NIMBioS, was named the University of Tennessee Quest’s Scholar of the Week for July 30, 2010. Hickling recently received a National Science Foundation … Continue reading

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