Mathematician Luis Caffarelli Wins Wolf Prize
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Science Student Entrepreneurs Give A Hoot
Three-student team started Hoot.me, an application that turns Facebook into a study tool.Drug Design, Environmental Sustainability, Oil Recovery Receive Private Grand Challenge Research Funds
Seven University of Texas at Austin researchers are confronting what the scientific community has defined as this century's grand challenges in drug design, environmental sustainability and improved oil recovery using Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty awards for 2011-12.
Data of Our Lives
In an era of cell phones and OnStar, math Professor Andrew Blumberg is working to protect our "locational privacy" from the prying eyes of the world.
Texas Researchers Tackle Influenza By Studying Human Behavior
AUSTIN, Texas — Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin will participate in a $3 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fight influenza and other diseases by creating models that simulate the complex interplay between human behavior and the spread of disease. The grant is part of the Models of Infectiou...Math Could Make Security Screening More Fair
AUSTIN, Texas — A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin has found that secondary security screening at airports is mathematically flawed, and has identified a way to select people for screenings more efficiently and fairly. William H. Press, a professor of computer sciences and integrative biology, proposes a method called square root bi...Read It Now
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