UT alumnus Michael W. Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research into how plants, animals and humans synchronize their biological clocks with the Earth’s rotation.

UT alumnus Michael W. Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research into how plants, animals and humans synchronize their biological clocks with the Earth’s rotation.

The Dean’s Scholars Student Association is hosting their annual (and free) Distinguished Lecture Series at Jester Auditorium on Thursday, April 13, 5-6:15pm. This year’s speaker is alumnus Dr. Michael ...

2017: Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm." ... 1915: No Nobel Prize awarded.