University of Texas Arlington

Dr. James P. Grover earned his B.A. degree in 1982, in Environmental Science at the State University of New York, College at Purchase. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 1988 from the University of Minnesota, working under the supervision of David Tilman. He did postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Limnology, in Winfried Lampert’s working group under the supervision of Ulrich Sommer, and at Imperial College Silwood Park, under the supervision of John Lawton. He was appointed to the faculty of the University of Texas at Arlington in 1993, where he has served as Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor in the Biology Department, as well as Associate Dean and Interim Dean in the College of Science, and Interim Dean in the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs. Dr. Grover is well known for his theoretical and experimental studies of competition between species for resources, the formulation and analysis of ordinary and partial differential equations models of interacting populations, and the ecological study of the toxic fish-killing alga, Prymnesium parvum (“golden algae”). His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and other agencies. Dr. Grover is the author of one book, Resource Competition (Chapman and Hall, London, 1997), and over 70 peer-reviewed articles. He has presented numerous invited lectures at universities and conference venues. Dr. Grover has supervised five completed doctoral dissertations, and over 20 Master’s students. He has provided mentored research experiences for over 50 undergraduate students. He has taught courses in limnology, environmental science, and mathematical and statistical modeling of biological processes. Dr. Grover has a strong interest in interdisciplinary courses and curricula, and in professional and career development for students. He has been Director of the interdisciplinary graduate environmental science program at UT Arlington, and developed a professional mentoring program for its students. He has been co-Director of an NSF-funded undergraduate research training program in biology and mathematics. He is currently Project Director for CIRTL-UTA, a learning community at UT Arlington participating in the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), a national network of over 40 research universities supported by the National Science Foundation, and other sponsors. Dr. Grover has served in various editorial capacities for the prestigious journal, Ecology Letters, since its founding in 1998. He has also served on the editorial boards of the American Naturalist and Freshwater Biology. Dr. Grover has served on grant proposal review panels for the National Science Foundation and the German Science Foundation (DFG), and regularly provides ad hoc reviews of manuscripts and grant proposals.