The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) has awarded Dr. Michael P. Sheetz the Pearse Prize for his “long and illustrious career in mechanobiological research”.

The UTMB Police Department won the honor of UT System Pacesetter Police Department of the Year for 2022.

The University of Texas System Board of Regents named Dr. Jacquelyn Svoboda as one of its 2022 Outstanding Teachers.

The Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) has selected Dr. David Brown for a 2022 Fellowship. Brown, Senior Vice President and Dean of the UTMB School of Health Professions, began working with the organization about four years ago and serves as Chair of the Research, Development, and Innovation Committee.

Researchers from the Center for Violence Prevention at the University of Texas Medical Branch received a rare perfect score, also known as the “unicorn score,” on their renewal of a nearly $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The funding will continue testing the violence prevention program implemented by UTMB researchers.

The American Academy of Nursing (AAN) has selected Dr. Deborah Jones, Senior Vice President and Dean of UTMB School of Nursing, as one of its Class of 2022 Fellows. Dr. Jones is one of 250 nursing leaders from across the globe recognized for their significant contributions to health and health care.

American Public Health Association members have elected Dr. Shannon Guillot-Wright to serve as a governing councilor representing the Community Health Planning and Policy Development section.

Efforts spearheaded by the UTMB Health Community Engagement and Marketing and Communications teams have earned awards from two industry organizations.

Pew Charitable Trusts announced that Noe Baruch Torres, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, was selected as a 2022 Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences.

Dr. Samuel E. Mathis, associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, has been elected to the Texas Medical Association (TMA) Board of Trustees to represent the Young Physician Section. TMA’s House of Delegates policymaking body elected Mathis during the association’s annual conference TexMed, in Houston on April 30.