The Texas Journal of Science Volume 77 (2025) includes 6 research articles and 1 invited article from 2025 Texas Distinguished Scientist Jingbo Liu. Read it at tjs.kglmeridian.com

UTSA researchers lead global tree census www.texasscientist.cns.utexas.edu/articles/glo...

Global Tree Census — The Texas Scientist

Brian Sedio, assistant professor of integrative biology, is conducting a census of trees at sites across the Texas Field Station Network, including the newest addition, the Hill Country Field Station...

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The UT San Antonio robotics team behind RoboRowdy wins global competition sanantonioreport.org/utsa-san-ant...

UT San Antonio robotics team wins global engineering competition

The all-freshman, multidisciplinary team from UTSA, had been named the sole finalist to represent the U.S. in the engineering competition.

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Mourning the loss but celebrating the career of TAS Fellow Dr. Robert Charles Ivey www.reporternews.com/obituaries/p...

Dr. Robert Charles Ivey Obituary - Abilene Reporter News

Dr. Robert Charles Ivey, 82, of Abilene, passed away on July 11, 2026, in Abilene, Texas. Private family burial service will be held at Elmwood...

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Congratulations to Dominic Pruss of Baylor University, whose poster "Differential gene expression in human bronchial cells after exposure to 3D-printer emitted aerosols" tied for first place in the Cell & Molecular Biology Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Heaven Eskandar of Southwestern University, who won first place for their presentation "Bobbing for apple snails: detecting Pomacea maculata in San Antonio waterways using environmental DNA" in the Freshwater Science Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Gustavo Zamora of Texas Lutheran University, whose poster "Dimethyl terephthalate effects on adipogenesis in an OP9 cell model" tied for first place in the Cell & Molecular Biology Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Jordan Ruppert of @sfasu.edu whose poster "Shifting geometries: octahedral geometry and electron count affect electronic communication" tied for third place in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Do I have any Gulf of Mexico phycologists in my network? Please let me know!

Congratulations to Hadley Watts of @sfasu.edu, who won second place for their presentation "Redox cooperativity analysis with computational chemistry: role of 3d versus 4d/5d metals" in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Perla Tovar of @sfasu.edu, who won second place for their presentation "Protective effects of mint extracts against oxidative stress in human serum albumin protein" in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Ryan Trevino of Texas Lutheran University, who won third place for their poster "Mouse stem cell differentiation when treated with two specific types of PFHxS (PFAS)" in the Cell & Molecular Biology Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Annie Trinh of University of Houston - Downtown, who tied for first place for their poster in the Neuroscience Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Kiera Griffin of @baylor.bsky.social, who won first place for their presentation "Cytotoxicity of freebase nicotine and its analogs using cellular and statistical methods" in the Biomedical Sciences Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

From SU to WashU: TAS Member Amanda Mejia doing great science across the country! www.southwestern.edu/live/news/17...

From SU to WashU: How Southwestern Sparked Amanda Mejia’s Passion for Aerospace Engineering

As part of Southwestern’s dual degree engineering program partnership with Washington University in St. Louis, Amanda Mejia ’27 will be heading to Was...

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Congratulations to Michaela Stelzer of Temple College, who won first place for their poster "Under the soil: effects of Diquat herbicide on tomato root complexity and AM fungi symbiosis" in the Plant Biology Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Mary Robles of University of Houston - Downtown, who won second place for their poster in the Plant Biology Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Kylie Allemeier of Southwestern University, who won first place for their presentation "Wanted dead, not alive: using eRNA:eDNA ratios to assess viability of invasive apple snail (Pomacea maculata)" in the Conservation Ecology Section at our 2026 Meeting!

Congratulations to Jiva Desai of University of Houston - Downtown, who won second place for their poster "Screening compounds for their potential to inhibit growth of leukemia cells (Molt-4)" in the Biomedical Sciences Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Robert Albin of McMurry University, who won first place for their poster "Using grass shrimp to evaluate mercury concentrations of Texas lake systems" in the Freshwater Science Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Jaalah Shand of @utaustin.bsky.social, who won second place for their poster "Thermal sensitivity patterns in urban and rural Austin streams" in the Freshwater Science Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Tyler Miller of Temple College and Jacob Wooten of McMurry University, whose posters tied for first place in the Terrestrial Ecology & Management Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Gloria Dominguez of McLennan Community College, who won first place for their poster "A longitudinal study: the abundance and disease status of starlet corals in Roatán, Honduras" in the Marine Sciences Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Kimble Gould of Southwestern University, who won second place for their poster "Staging the embryogenesis of male-pregnant Gulf pipefish (Syngnathus scovelli) using optic development" in the Marine Sciences Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Yuliana Santos Ventura of University of Houston - Downtown, who won second place for their poster in the Systematics & Evolutionary Biology Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Lila O'Donnell of Temple College, who won first place for their poster "Bringing biochemistry into organic chemistry through an LLPS-based CURE module" in the Science Education Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Gisela Guerrero of @acuedu.bsky.social, who won first place for their oral presentation in the Plant Biology Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

Congratulations to Yamilex Hernandez of Temple College, who won second place for their oral presentation "Diquat herbicide-induced effects on cherry tomatoes" in the Plant Biology Section at the 2026 Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science!

New TAS-Supported Publication Alert! Lead author Erin M. Keenan Early of @utaustin.bsky.social won a TAS research award in 2019! www.nature.com/articles/s41...