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Welcome to the Department of Biology at Texas State University
- San Marcos. The Biology
Department is a large, multidisciplinary department with many strong
research programs that are well funded. We serve about 11,000 students
each year in modern facilities with up to date instrumentation
emphasizing inquiry-based hands-on instruction. This year Biology has
about 1,200 undergraduate majors and 135 graduate (masters and Ph.D.)
students.
Our goal is to attain national and international prominence through
integrating undergraduate and graduate education with multidisciplinary
research programs. Through our educational, scholarship, and outreach
activities, the department will enhance the image of Texas State by
using the life sciences to help meet the current and future needs of
society in Texas, the United States, and the world.
601 University Drive • San Marcos, TX 78666 • (512)245-2178 (office) • (512)245-8713 (fax)
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- Four Texas State Biology graduate students won 2012 Howard McCarley Student Research Awards from the Southwestern Association of Naturalists. Chelsea Blake (PhD student with Dr. Gabor), Melissa Jones (PhD student with Dr. Forstner), Lily Swanbrow Becker (MS student with Dr. Gabor) and Desirae Weyland (MS student with Dr. Nice) each won awards up to $1000 to support their thesis and dissertation research.
- Lauren Lucas (PhD student with Dr. Nice) is a recipient of the Rosemary Grant Graduate Student Research Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution. These competitive awards support students in the first two years of the PhD studies.
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The Texas branch of the American Society for Microbiology held its Spring 2012 meeting in New Braunfels at the T-Bar M conference center. This meeting had over 65 student abstract submissions (undergraduate and graduate). Three students in the Department of Biology were recognized for their presentations. Jimmy Golihar (undergraduate working jointly with Dr. Bob McLean and Dr. Stacie Brown) won the Orville Wyss Award for best undergraduate oral presentation. Suvidha S. (Suvi) Samant (PhD student with Dr. Dittmar Hahn) won the Charlie Gauntt Award for best graduate student poster (environmental microbiology category). Lindsey Coulter (MS student with Dr. Gary Aron) was the second place recipient for the Charlie Gauntt Award for graduate student poster in medical microbiology.
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Dr. Ivan Castro-Arellano was recently selected as a Fellow for the 2012 E. Kika De La Garza Fellowship Program. The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) E. Kika De La Garza Fellowship Program offers faculty and staff from Hispanic Serving Institutions the opportunity to work collaboratively with USDA to gain insight and understanding of the federal government.
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