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UT Southwestern’s newest Leaders in Clinical Excellence Awardees this year represent the best of the medical center’s care.

19 UTSW researchers make ‘most highly cited’ list; awards for Mendell, Schmid

Student Awards 2021

Learn about the history of the Department of Microbiology at UT Southwestern.

UT Southwestern has received the 2019 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. This is the second consecutive year the University has received the national honor.

Graduate student Heankel Lyons’ research on disordered regions of proteins led to her receipt of the Nominata Award, the highest honor from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

UT Southwestern celebrated a record achievement on April 27 when four faculty members – Drs. Sean Morrison, Kim Orth, Michael Rosen, and Sandra Schmid – were elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors for American scientists. The accomplishment marks the first time more than two UTSW scientists have been elected to NAS in a single year. UT Southwestern now has 25 NAS members, including seven women, and the highest overall total of any institution in Texas.

As COVID-19 spread from China across the globe and into Texas, UT Southwestern moved aggressively to protect its health care workers, faculty, students, and staff and to prepare for treating patients struck by the disease.

Student Awards 2020

Dr. Benjamin Tu, Professor of Biochemistry, has been selected to receive the 2021 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Science, presented by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST), for his research on how metabolites control cell growth and other important cell functions.