UT Dallas 2020 Undergraduate Catalog

School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics offers both graduate and undergraduate programs in Biology and Molecular Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Geosciences, Mathematics, and Physics, and a graduate program in Science Education. Certain options may exceed minimum requirements for a degree. Undergraduate and post-baccalaureate programs in teacher certification are administratively housed in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics but serve other schools as well.

The undergraduate programs in Biology and Molecular Biology provide a basic foundation in molecular and cell biology to prepare students for graduate studies in biological sciences (BS), for professional studies in a wide variety of health-related areas, for secondary school teaching, and for employment as research assistants in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, government, and environmental science laboratories (BS, BA).

The undergraduate programs in Chemistry and Biochemistry provide the fundamental knowledge required for professional participation in chemically oriented industries, for graduate study in chemistry, and for medical or dental studies (BS), or for secondary science teaching or ancillary positions (sales, legal, etc.) in the chemical industries (BA).

The undergraduate program in Geosciences provides a general scientific background suitable for some careers in business or law, for secondary school teaching, or for employment as a professional geologist, or for graduate studies in Geosciences (BS).

The undergraduate programs in Mathematics (BS, BA) encompass Mathematics, Statistics, and Applied Mathematics, and are designed so that students can have the opportunity to prepare for employment immediately upon graduation in a broad range of positions in business, industry, government, and education - or for continuing with graduate studies in any of these areas.

The undergraduate program in Actuarial Science (BS) provides a rigorous mathematical background with special courses in finance, economics, applied statistics, insurance, and actuarial science devoted to preparing students for actuarial exams.

The undergraduate Physics program offers a basic foundation in classical and modern physics for students interested in professional careers in physics, usually requiring graduate degrees, as well as in related fields, e.g., electrical engineering, medical physics, radiology, lasers, geophysics, computer science (BS), or a strong base in physics for students seeking to pursue careers in medicine, patent law, government or industrial laboratories, or secondary school teaching (BA).

The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics also provides opportunities for students to complete Texas Teacher Certification requirements in Life Science, Chemistry, Physical Science, Composite Science, and Mathematics. Students who wish to be certified should consult the UTeach Dallas for specific requirements as soon as possible after formal admission to the University. Further details may be found in the Teacher Education Certification Programs section of the catalog.

 

Major Honors

The Departments of the School of Natural Science and Mathematics offer the opportunity for outstanding students to graduate with Honors or Honors with Distinction in their major. The program provides for these students to work individually with faculty for an in-depth experience in research.

Eligibility requirements include:

  • at least 30 graded semester credit hours of coursework at UT Dallas with a cumulative grade point average of 3.750,
  • at least 12 semester credit hours of upper-division courses in the student's major with a grade point average of 3.750 overall the upper-division courses in the major, and
  • completion of an honors thesis evaluated by two faculty members with a grade of at least B+.

The thesis should be submitted at least three weeks prior to the last day of classes of the term. It is then critiqued by the faculty mentor, returned to the student for revision and resubmission by the last day of classes of the term.

Honors with Distinction will be awarded to students whose theses are judged by a faculty committee of at least three members to be of exemplary quality, and if carried to fruition, would warrant publication in a journal in the field of work.

 

Minors

To minor in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, students must take a minimum of 18 semester credit hours for the minor, 12 of which must be upper-division semester credit hours. Students who take a minor will be expected to meet the normal prerequisites in courses making up the minor, and should maintain a minimum GPA of 2.000 on a 4.00 scale (C average). Semester credit hours may not be used to satisfy both the major and minor requirements; however, free elective semester credit hours or major preparatory classes may be used to satisfy the minor. Students must complete all prerequisite sequences for required minor courses for all minors in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Students may choose to minor in any of the following fields of study:

 

 

Faculty

Distinguished Chair in Natural Sciences and Mathematics; Dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics: Bruce M. Novak

Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Chair in Systems Biology; Professor of Chemistry: A. Dean Sherry

Distinguished Chair in Natural Sciences and Mathematics: Roderick A. Heelis

Green Distinguished Chair in Academic Leadership: B. Hobson Wildenthal

Professors: Larry P. Ammann, Phillip C. Anderson, Zalman I. Balanov, Kenneth J. Balkus Jr., Swati Biswas, Julia Chan, Pankaj K. Choudhary, Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, Vladimir Dragovic, Rockford K. Draper, Sam Efromovich, John F. Ferguson, John P. Ferraris, John W. Geissman, Yulia Gel, Robert Glosser, Matthew J. Goeckner, Juan E. González, M. Ali Hooshyar, Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, Joseph M. Izen, Wieslaw Krawcewicz, Mark Lee, Xinchou Lou, David Lumley, Roger Malina, William I. Manton, Susan E. Minkoff, Inga H. Musselman, L. Felipe Pereira, Dmitry Rachinskiy, Viswanath Ramakrishna, Lawrence J. Reitzer, Stephen Spiro, Mihaela C. Stefan, Robert J. Stern, Janos Turi, Robert M. Wallace, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Chuanwei Zhang, Li Zhang, Michael Qiwei Zhang, Jie Zheng, John Zweck

Associate Professors: Jung-Mo Ahn, Michael C. Biewer, Thomas H. Brikowski, John G. Burr, Yan Cao, Lunjin Chen, Min Chen, Jeff L. DeJong, Gregg R. Dieckmann, Heng Du, Yuri Gartstein, Jeremiah J. Gassensmith, Warren J. Goux, Tae Hoon Kim, Lindsay J. King, David J. Lary, Anton V. Malko, Steven O. Nielsen, Kelli Palmer, Paul Pantano, Fabiano Rodrigues, John W. Sibert IV, Jason D. Slinker, Ronald A. Smaldone, Duane D. Winkler, Zhenyu Xuan

Assistant Professors: Maxim Arnold, Carlos Arreche, Zachary Campbell, Bhargab Chattopadhyay, Sy Han (Steven) Chiou, Sheena D'Arcy, Nicole De Nisco, Nikki Delk, Sheel Dodani, Qingwen Hu, Michael Kesden, Michael Kolodrubetz, Frank Konietschke, Jiyong Lee, Yifei Lou, Lloyd Lumata, Bing Lv, Oleg Makarenkov, Gabriele Meloni, Jyoti Misra, Faruck Morcos, Tomoki Ohsawa, Kaloyan Penev, Xiaoyan Shi, Sunyoung Shin, Russell Stoneback, Anh Tran, Nathan Williams, Fan Zhang, Hejun Zhu

Clinical Professors: Natalia Humphreys, Wenyi (Roy) Lu, David Murchison

Clinical Associate Professor: Mohammad Akbar

Research Professor: Duck Joo (D. J.) Yang

Research Assistant Professors: Lan Guo, Li Liu

Senior Lecturers: Mohammad Ahsan, Iris Alvarado, Kelly Aman, Mehmet Candas, Sergio Cortes, Malgorzata Dabkowska, Rabin Dahal, Anatoly Eydelzon, Manjula Foley, Bentley T. Garrett, Sandhya R. Gavva, William R. Griffin, Yuly Koshevnik, David L. Lewis, Changsong Li, Wen-Ju Lin, Paul Mac Alevey, Meenakshi Maitra, Robert C. Marsh, Irina Martynova, Brady McCary, Iti Mehta, Derege Mussa, Jing Pan, Nimanka Panapitiya, Ajaya Paudel, Elizabeth Pickett, Ignacio Pujana, Yanping Qin, Ruben D. Ramirez, Scott A. Rippel, Ilya Sapozhnikov, Subha Sarcar, Amandeep Sra, Uma Srikanth, Paul Stanford, Kuei Sun, Julie Sutton, Claudia Taenzler, Tristan Whalen, Michelle Wilson, Wen-Ho Yu

Professors Emeritus: Carlos L. V. Aiken, Hans Bremer, Lee A. Bulla, Richard A. Caldwell, Austin J. Cunningham, David E. Dunn, Donald M. Gray, Walter Heikkila, John H. Hoffman, George A. McMechan, Richard M. Mitterer, Patrick Odell, Emile A. Pessagno Jr., Dean C. Presnall, Wolfgang A. Rindler, Robert H. Rutford, Myron B. Salamon, Brian A. Tinsley, John W. Van Ness

UT Dallas Affiliated Faculty: Hervé Abdi, Titu Andreescu, Alain Bensoussan, Yves J. Chabal, Kyeongjae (KJ) Cho, John P. Ferraris, Massimo V. Fischetti, Heather Hayenga, Julia W. P. Hsu, Wenchuang (Walter) Hu, Stefano Leonardi, Stephen D. Levene, Faruck Morcos, Lawrence J. Overzet, A. Dean Sherry, Mary L. Urquhart, Zhenyu Xuan, Duck Joo (D. J.) Yang, Hyuntae Yoo, Michael Qiwei Zhang

Associate Professor of Instruction: My Linh Nguyen

Assistant Professors of Instruction: Caitlin Braitsch, Ida Klang, Mortaza Pirouz, Eva Sadat, Zhuoru Wu

 

Updated: 2020-02-17 11:37:31 v4.2654c7