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Billie Lee Turner (February 22, 1925 – May 27, 2020) [1] was an American botanist and professor of botany at the University of Texas at Austin where he also directed the botany research programme and herbarium. He died from COVID-19 in Round Rock, Texas, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas. [1]
Raised and educated in Texas, he is the first son of Billie Lee Turner, a noted taxonomist and desert botanist.He has a B.A. and M.A. in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin (1968, 1969) and received his PhD at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1974 for work on Mayan agriculture and landscape change, [3] under the tutelage of William M. Denevan.
Austin Turner's family plans to hold a visitation for him on Wednesday from 3-7 p.m. in the chapel of Cheatham County Funeral Home at 117 Elizabeth St. in Ashland City, Tennessee.
UT Austin alumni in academia include the 26th president of the College of William & Mary Gene Nichol '76, the 10th president of Boston University Robert A. Brown '73 & '75, and the 8th president of the University of Southern California John R. Hubbard. The university also graduated Alan Bean '55, the fourth man to walk on the Moon.
The autopsy report said Austin Turner's skull was indented and there was internal bleeding around his brain. He died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, 16 days after authorities ...
The guard, Richard Cornelius, 36, of Antioch, denied Austin Turner, 26, of Hendersonville, entry to the Demonbreun Street bar on Feb. 18, resulting in an altercation between the two, Metro ...
Robert Gerald Turner (born November 25, 1945) is the President of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas.One of the most highly-compensated university presidents in the United States, [1] Turner has been described as a "transformational" [2] figure who helped rehabilitate SMU's national reputation following the infamous 1980s football scandal and NCAA death penalty.
On October 30, 2018, Buzbee announced he would be running in the 2019 Houston mayoral election, challenging incumbent Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on a platform of universal pre-K, infrastructure improvement, crime reduction, and expanding access to 5G broadband. [32] On October 17, Turner accused Buzbee's campaign of running a "deepfake ad ...