The Marine Science Institute gets a new facility to clean birds, sea turtles and other wildlife that are oiled by environmental disasters. Read the story.
Biologist Sahotra Sarkar (along with a colleague in the philosophy department) are using game theory to assist biodiversity efforts. Read the full story.
Tony Amos has seen this disaster before. Mexico’s Ixtoc I oil spill in 1979 showed what could happen to our beaches...Read the full Houston Chronicle article.
Albert Einstein said it couldn't be done, but now the velocity of a microscopic particle as it zigzags through air has been directly measured...Now a team led by Mark Raizen of the University of Texas at Austin has found a way to do it – at least in air. Read the full article.
As the director of genomic sequencing at the University of Texas at Austin, Scott Hunicke-Smith oversees projects ranging from unraveling the genes in algae and coral to looking for changes in proteins caused by, more or less, cutting and pasting sections in various ways.
Read more: Seeing more sequences: Driving DNA discovery
A growing health care information technology company is collaborating with the University of Texas on a summer internship program geared at developing the workforce that will be needed to meet the anticipated demand for electronic health records.
Read more: University of Texas helping e-MDs grow talent - Austin Business Journal.
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