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Blast from the Past: Solar Eclipse in Mauritania
In May of 1973, two physicists from The University of Texas at Austin went to the desert of Mauritania to set up an observatory in advance of the June 30 solar eclipse. A month later, with a team from the university, they looked up at the stars visible during the eclipse, and helped prove Albert Einstein right. Einstein had...
Globetrotting: Sheldon Ekland-Olson
Deep in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Sheldon Ekland-Olson found himself eating a lunch of roasted lamb and drinking Moroccan mint tea while listening to the lilting strum of a local musician playing the Moroccan lute.Life on the Outside: The Neuroscientist and the Sea
Dan Johnston is an avid fisherman every summer when he is not studying neurons and their role in learning and memory at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole.Cool Class: Physics for Smarties
When Plan II Liberal Arts students reach their junior year, they each pass through what many perceive as a trial by fire: Plan II Physics. The class, taught by physics professor Austin Gleeson, has a reputation for scrambling students' brains and shaking the very foundation of everything they think they know. Throughout the semester, Gleeson and...
College to Establish Partnerships in Elementary Science Education in Local School Districts
How do we train future elementary teachers in science and simultaneously give them the tools they need to engage children in the exciting process of scientific discovery? That's the challenge being undertaken by the Hands-On-Science team in the College of Natural Sciences. The Hands-On-Science curriculum trains future elementary teachers in scienc...
UTeach is the Big Little Program that Could
Some compelling numbers coming from the UTeach Institute show how UTeach is beginning to make an impact nationally.Fear: The Bioterrorist's Best Friend
Biochemist Andy Ellington muses on how our (exaggerated) fear of bioterrorism might be far more dangerous than any virus a terrorist could actually engineer and spread.New Facility to Help Oiled Wildlife at Marine Science Institute
Only facility in South Texas designed specifically for handling oiled wildlife will help wildlife affected by oil spills.
Grand opening of wildlife recovery center is Tuesday
Wildlife affected by oil spills now will have a recovery center in Port Aransas. The Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center announces its grand opening at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Animal Rehabilitation Keep on the University of Texas Marine Science Institute. Read more on the Caller Times.Read It Now
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