Laura Rademacher brings classified staff voice to UTHealth Houston University Leadership Council

What does it mean to be the only classified staff member at the table during major UTHealth Houston university leadership discussions? University Classified Staff Council (UCSC) Chair Laura Rademacher shares how she advocates for more than 8,500 staff, builds connections across campuses, and ensures their voices are heard at the highest levels.

Swathi Arur, PhD, honored with Darlington Mentor Award for her lasting impact on the next generation of scientists

Swathi Arur, PhD, professor and long-standing GSBS faculty member, has been awarded the 2025 Paul E. Darlington Mentor Award, recognizing her extraordinary influence on students and faculty through mentorship. For Arur, mentoring is “the one aspect of science that is profoundly human.”

November’s Paper of the Month finds that neuronal recycling pathways remain stable across sexes, simplifying future studies of aging and disease.

Neuroscience PhD student Mya Rodriguez has uncovered that male and female neurons maintain equivalent recycling capacity as they age. The findings, published in Molecular Biology of the Cell, simplify how researchers design future studies of aging and neurodegeneration — showing that the core autophagy process remains remarkably stable across sexes. Read how Rodriguez and her mentor, Andrea Stavoe, PhD, pieced together this unified story of neuronal resilience.