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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 ...
Found: Multitalented Grad Student + Black-footed Ferret
Black-footed ferret illustration by Laura Crothers. On a web trawl today, we discovered graduate student Laura Crothers is not only a super smart biologist in Molly Cummings' lab studying endocrinology and behavioral ecology, she's also a creative illustrator. Check out her blog Natural Miscillanea. This post is part of our blog, Extracts.
First Stars in the Universe Weren't Lonely
The first stars to form in the universe were not as lonely as previously thought, finds Volker Bromm.
Graduate Alumnus Awarded Three-Year Harvard Society Fellowship
Christian Rabeling, an alumnus of the graduate program in Ecology, Evolution and Human Behavior, intends to continue his studies on ants and explore the evolutionary processes that generate biodiversity.
Placing Landmarks on the Genome Map
Vishy Iyer and colleagues use the power of the Ranger supercomputer and next-gen sequencers to study role of heredity in gene transcription.
Fueled by the Sun: Mimicking Plants
Chemist Allen Bard looks to harness the power of sunlight to produce fuels that can substitute for oil.
Students Without Borders
As a TIP fellow, Arame Tiam has been able to develop her own interdisciplinary course of study in “Healthcare Policy in Modern Africa.” In the process of doing so she'll have the opportunity to develop close relationships with faculty outside her majors, receive support for studying abroad, and do some very serious, very concrete thinking about what she'd like to do with her life.
Lion Trackers
Nomadic male lions play a minor role in spreading disease among lion prides in the Serengeti, finds mathematical biologist Lauren Ancel Meyers.
Podcast: Tough Talk on the Hard Science of Climate Change
Ray Orbach, director of the Energy Institute, breaks down the science, and the politics of the science, on climate change.Read It Now
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