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A Surprise Endowment Honors Dean Rankin
Dean Rankin speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Gates Computer Science Complex. In April 2010, the College of Natural Sciences Advisory Council gathered once again to honor one of their friends at the college’s annual Hall of Honor event. Only this year, they came bearing a big surprise for Dean Mary Ann Rankin. Unbekno...
Grahams Boost Dark Energy Studies
Gift from Bob and Annie Graham will help astronomers solve the mystery of dark energy.Building Your Own Spin Zone
When Professor Alex de Lozanne was a boy he made things with Tinker Toys, went on to a mechanical version of Tinker Toys and just kept on tinkering. Even as a physicist at The University of Texas at Austin, he’s built instruments used in his laboratory. For his latest project, de Lozanne and members of his lab are building a spin-polarized scanni...The Texas Shaman
Dr. Dionicio Siegel, Texas Shaman Congrats to Dio Siegel for winning a 2011 Dreyfus Special Grant in Chemical Sciences. His proposal was titled “Texas Shamans, a Study of Chemistry and Conservation of Native Texas Plants” and the 2-year award also comes with matching funds from UT Austin. I wrote about Siegel and his shamanic tendencies twice in ...
With $2.4 Million Grant, Researchers To Decode Geranium’s Evolutionary Mysteries
Botany researcher Dr. Robert Jansen and his colleagues have received a four-year, $2.4 million grant from the Plant Genome Program to investigate the genomes of the geranium plant and 15 related species.
Beneath Two Meters of Arctic Ice, Texas Scientists Will Seek Better Understanding of Carbon Cycling and Climate
Marine scientists will study coastal ecosystems in the Arctic throughout the year through a $1 million NSF grant.
Improving Cotton the Goal of $3.8 Million Grant to Plant Geneticist
Jeff Chen will use next-generation DNA sequencing technologies to study the genomics of fiber production in cotton with a $3.8 million grant from the NSF.
Department of Energy Fellowship Provides Support for Grad Student
College of Natural Sciences graduate student Cory Nelson has received a fellowship as part of a new U.S. Department of Energy program.
Two Natural Scientists Among Recipients of Latest Moncrief Grand Challenge Awards
Energy and disease the focus of research for chemist Graeme Henkelman and computer scientist Inderjit Dhillon.
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