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2008 College Faculty and Staff Awards
The College of Natural Sciences is filled to capacity with intelligent, creative and incredibly devoted people. Each spring, we have the opportunity to honor some of the individuals that make the College of Natural Sciences so wonderful. This year's 2008 honorees are: OFFICE OF THE DEAN Ricardo Gonzalez Dean’s Office Staff Excellence Award DEPA...Award-winning, Solar-powered House Built by University of Texas Students Comes to McDonald Observatory
FORT DAVIS — It’s Earth Day, and McDonald Observatory is preparing to add a new eco-friendly facility: the award-winning, solar-powered “BLOOMhouse.” Students in The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture designed and built the BLOOMhouse to compete in last year’s Solar Decathlon, a biennial event sponsored by the Department of Ener...
John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008)
John Archibald Wheeler passed away yesterday after contracting pneumonia. He is survived by two daughters, Alison Wheeler Lahnston and Letitia Wheeler Ufford, and a son, James English Wheeler. Read more about his life here.Calorie Restricted Diet Prevents Pancreatic Inflammation and Cancer
Prevention of weight gain with a restricted calorie diet sharply reduced the development of pancreatic lesions that lead to cancer in preclinical research reported today by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting. The ...Most Powerful Laser In The World Fires Up
Dr. Todd Ditmire, director of the Texas Center for High-Intensity Laser Science.AUSTIN, Texas—The Texas Petawatt laser reached greater than one petawatt of laser power on Monday morning, March 31, making it the highest powered laser in the world, Todd Ditmire, a physicist at The University of Texas at Austin, said. The Texas Petawatt is the only o...
Computer Scientist Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
AUSTIN, Texas—Peter Stone, associate professor of computer sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on teams of mobile robots. Stone is one of 190 artists, scientists and scholars who received the fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Successful candidates wer...
Graduate Program Rankings '08
Several college Ph.D. programs rank among the nation’s top ten in this year’s U.S. News & World Report survey. Rankings are based on opinions of deans, department heads and other senior faculty. College programs and rankings: Biological Sciences - 23rd Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior - 8th Chemistry - 12th Analytical Chemistr...Sen. Cornyn Recognizes UTeach Efforts
AUSTIN—United States Senator John Cornyn cited the partnership between UTeach—The University of Texas at Austin’s innovative science and math teacher preparation program—and the Austin Independent School District (AISD) as exemplary in meeting the nation’s need for highly trained science, math and computer science secondary school teachers. Cornyn,...
Bill Gates Unplugged
Founder and chairman of Microsoft Bill Gates spoke at The University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday, Feb. 20. Gates’ visit was part of a five-campus university tour in which he emphasized the importance of digital innovation in driving the global economy and addressing societal issues and the benefits afforded careers based in math and science. A...
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