Marine and Freshwater Biology Student Mike Gil Honored

Mike Gil has been selected as a 2007-08 College of Natural Sciences Dean's Honored Graduate at The University of Texas at Austin. Dean's Honored Graduate is the highest honor awarded to graduating seniors and is restricted to fewer than 1% of the graduating class, typically about 17 students out of the more than 1700 students who will graduate in the College this academic year. Mike is being recognized not just for academic excellence, but more significantly, for demonstrated excellence beyond the classroom that includes scientific research and independent intellectual pursuit.

As a senior at UT, he conducted and completed a research project entitled "Spatial variation in test size of the pteropods Limacina inflara and Limacina trochiformis in relation to pH across the eastern equatorial Pacific." Mike's paper also received an honorable mention (2nd place) at the Undergraduate Research Forum in the Biological Sciences. Mike will be working at the Marine Science Institute this summer on a project with Dr. Ken Dunton.

Recognition of Dean's Honored Graduate status includes a book award and framed certificate and seating on stage at graduation. His name will also be placed on a plaque on the first floor of W.C. Hogg, the home of the College of Natural Sciences on the Austin campus.
 

Created: Tuesday May 06, 2008