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Reichl named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Dr. Linda Reichl, professor of physics, has accepted the appointment as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the College of Natural Sciences effective December 11, 2006. Reichl came to The University of Texas at Austin in 1973 and was acting director of the Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems from 1974 to 2005. The center was r...Defense Department's $1.4 Million Appropriation Funds Texas Nanotechnology Consortium
AUSTIN, Texas—The U.S. Department of Defense will use a $1.4 million appropriation secured by U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison to fund a consortium of seven leading Texas universities created to develop and commercialize revolutionary nanomaterials for the defense aerospace industry. The Consortium for Nanomaterials for Aerospace Commerce and Tec...Krische wins Elias J. Corey award for his work in green chemistry
AUSTIN, Texas--Dr. Michael Krische, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has won the Elias J. Corey Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) for an outstanding original contribution to organic synthesis by a young investigator. His award will be presented the ACS National Meeting in March 2007. Krische received the honor for his origina...Changes at the Health Professions Office
The Health Professions Office has a new look after losing a familiar face, as the office relocated to Painter Hall and Dr. Jeanne Lagowski retired as associate dean, a position she had held for more than 30 years. The physical move of the HPO into a suite shared with the College of Natural Sciences Career Services Office coincides with an administ...Life on the Outside: Jack Gilbert, Beekeeper
Sometime around 1980, a colony of bees swarmed right through the middle of campus and set up shop on a window outside of Welch Hall. The bees scared the bejeezus out of the occupant of the office, despite the fact that he had a wonderful view of the inside of a growing beehive. He called the campus exterminator. But organic chemist Jack Gilbert, b...University of Texas at Austin learning and memory research program grows
AUSTIN, Texas—The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Learning and Memory has recruited and hired six top scientists intent upon understanding how the brain processes information, learns and remembers events in our everyday lives. “There is a need for neuroscience and a demand for a strong neuroscience program at UT,” said Professor of Neur...Twenty years of figuring-out fire ants
Red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) being attacked by a phorid fly in the Texas Fire Ant Lab. When the wave of red imported fire ants rolled into Austin in the early 1980s, Larry Gilbert knew in no time flat. Students who were studying ants at the Brackenridge Field Laboratory found colonies of the invaders on the property in 1981. It had ...
Fire ant lab celebrates 20 years of research
AUSTIN, Texas—The red imported fire ant laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin Brackenridge Field Lab (BFL) is celebrating 20 years of research this month. Dr. Larry Gilbert, director of BFL and professor of integrative biology, first initiated fire ant research at the university in 1986 by bringing to the university two young researchers...Associate Dean Jack Gilbert to leave for Santa Clara University
Dr. Jack Gilbert, associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Natural Sciences, will leave to become professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry and senior fellow in the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. Gilbert, professor of organic chemistry, will remain in Austin t...Read It Now
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