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TWU celebrates Texas Wildflower Day
5/24/24
Texas Woman's University celebrated Texas Wildflower Day at the Ann Stuart Science Complex and the Dr. Bettye Myers Butterfly Garden.
Women in STEM Leadership host watercolor painting at Butterfly Garden
4/28/23
The Women in STEM Leadership hosted watercolor painting in the Dr. Bettye Meyers Butterfly Garden. The event was sponsored by the School of the Sciences. Sheli Petersen of the division of Visual Arts provided paint and color-theory lessons, and Karlee Collins, Jasper Lee, ToQuyen Nguyen, Helena Song and Britney Bennett of the Student Association of Music Therapy played background music.
TWU student photo contest
4/28/23
The Women in STEM Leadership hosted a student photography contest involving photos of the Butterfly Garden. Nine entries were submitted, and the winners were:
- First place: Sebastian Perez
- Second place: Md Shabab Mehebub
- Third place: Tessa Nester
TWU inaugurates Jeff Robb Outdoor Classroom
11/8/22
Texas Woman's University celebrated one of the people most responsible for TWU's butterfly garden when it held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate the Jeff Robb Outdoor Classroom. The outdoor classroom is named in honor of Jeff Robb, TWU legal studies professor, lifetime lepidopterist and initiator of the butterfly garden. Robb passed away in 2017.
Butterfly garden wins Business Yard of the Month award
5/19/20
The TWU Bettye Myers Butterfly Garden has received the May Business Yard of the Month award from Keep Denton Beautiful. Designated as a Monarch Waystation, the butterfly garden boasts a lovely variety of flowers, including coneflowers (bachelor buttons), poppies, evening primrose, larkspur, phlox, gerbera daisy, and cornflowers. Find Phase II of this garden by the Little Chapel in-the-Woods and enjoy the Carroll Abbott Wildlife Sanctuary. The sanctuary is a section of the garden dedicated to the memory of Carroll Abbott.