Texas Science alumni and friends were named among the winners of university alumni awards this year. Colonel (Ret.) Leon L. Holland, Alma Solis, and Michael Young will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards from the Texas Exes, the alumni association of the University of Texas at Austin.
Alma Solis is a research scientist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., who received her bachelor's and master's degrees from UT Austin in biology. She is internationally recognized as an authority on snout moths (Pyraloidea) and has published more than 100 research papers and book chapters on their classification and biology.
Michael Young received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of molecular mechanisms that control circadian rhythms. He received his bachelor's degree in biology and his master's and Ph.D. in zoology from UT Austin. Young is currently the Fisher Professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics at Rockefeller University, where he also serves as the university's vice president for Academic Affairs.
Below: Watch Young's acceptance speech during the 2018 College of Natural Sciences Hall of Honor.
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