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Monday, 04 February 2008

Computer Sciences Professor Wins Highest Honor In The Field

AUSTIN, Texas—E. Allen Emerson, professor of computer sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the 2007 A.M. Turing Award, widely considered the most prestigious award in computing, for original and continuing research in a quality assurance process known as “Model Checking.” Emerson received the award, given annually by the ...

Monday, 28 January 2008

UTeach Spreads to 13 Universities Across the Nation

AUSTIN, Texas—After 10 years of incubation at The University of Texas at Austin, the highly successful teacher preparation program UTeach is spreading to other universities throughout the country, thanks to a partnership with the National Math and Science Initiative and the Texas High School Project. In all, 13 universities will receive grants of u...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008

Monitoring Texas Bays For Dangerous Algal Blooms

PORT ARANSAS, Texas—A new electronic sentinel is on the lookout for dangerous algal blooms in Texas bays. The new instrument, called the Imaging FlowCytobot, automatically takes images of and classifies species of phytoplankton in real-time. It heralds the development of a warning system for the presence of harmful algae, like those that cause red...

Thursday, 10 January 2008

Detecting Cancer With Saliva

HOUSTON, Texas—Biochemist John McDevitt’s lab-on-a-chip technology was used by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston to identify and quantify specific protein markers in human saliva to provide an early, non-invasive diagnosis of breast cancer. The hope is that people may some day receive cancer screening simply a...

Thursday, 03 January 2008

Supernova Discovery Makes Time's Top 10

J Craig Wheeler and Robert Quimby's discovery of brightest supernova named a top 10 scientific discovery in 2007 by Time magazine. Read the article here.

Thursday, 03 January 2008

Scientists Find Missing Evolutionary Link Using Tiny Fungus Crystal

The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served as a time machine to show researchers more about the evolution of life from the simple to the complex.

Thursday, 13 December 2007

Research Makes Discover's Top 100

Research conducted by University of Texas at Austin professors Andrea Gore and David Crews has been included on Discover magazine’s list of the “Top 100 Science Stories of 2007.” Gore is a professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the College of Pharmacy, and Crews is the Ashbel Smith Professor of Integrative Biology in the College of Natural Sc...

Friday, 30 November 2007

Computer Scientist Peter Stone Wins Award for Autonomous Vehicle

AUSTIN, Texas—Peter Stone, associate professor of computer sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, was named one of eight winners of the Tech Innovations Award by the Austin Business Journal. Stone received the award for his work on “Marvin,” an artificially intelligent, self-driving vehicle developed in conjunction with Austin Robot Technol...

Monday, 19 November 2007

College welcomes 16 new faculty

Chemistry & Biochemistry Ron Elber, W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Chair in Computational Life Sciences and Biology Dionicio Rhodes Siegel, Assistant Professor Katherine Willets, Assistant Professor Computer Sciences Kristen Grauman, Assistant Professor Computer Sciences & Integrative Biology William H. Press, Warren J. and Viola Mae Raym...

Monday, 19 November 2007

Astrophysics Student Wins Coveted Rhodes Scholarship

AUSTIN, Texas—Sarah Miller, an astronomy and physics major who will graduate in May from The University of Texas at Austin, was recently selected as a Rhodes Scholar for 2008. She is one of 32 students in America to be honored with the scholarship. The Rhodes Scholarship was created in 1902 by British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes to bring outstandi...