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.
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Insight: August 2010
In this issue of the undergraduate newsletter, we celebrate the end of summer, the beginning of the new school year, and the continuing voyage of the College of Natural Sciences (its ongoing mission: to seek out new knowledge and new applications; to boldly go where no college has gone before).
Quasar Girl
Astronomy student Krista Smith fulfills her dream to become an astronomer and studies quasars, the massive, incredibly distant, extraordinarily bright galaxies with active black holes at their center.
Solar hot water systems catching on
The Hackerman building's solar hot water array is mentioned in this article from the San Antonio Express-News. We're on the cutting edge!
Nano Science and Technology Building Named To Honor President Emeritus Larry Faulkner
The Larry R. Faulkner Nano Science and Technology Building is home to important research in new solar energy technologies, health diagnostics and treatments, and energy storage devices.
Physicist Sudarshan Awarded Dirac Medal
Texas physicist George Sudarshan will share the 2010 Dirac Medal and Prize for his work on the fundamental forces of nature.
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.
Seeing Anew
Every day—every minute, every second—the world’s computers are amassing visual information at an extraordinary rate. And every day people like Kristen Grauman are searching for ways to help computers sift through this avalanche of visual information.
Humanizing Biodiversity
Dr. Sahotra Sarkar (Photo: Marsha Miller) Sahotra Sarkar’s quest to preserve earth’s biodiversity has found inspiration in a place that doesn’t usually play a starring role in the global environmental imagination—Texas. “The landowners here, who I’ve spent a lot of time working with, tend to care as much as most conservationists do that the land qu...
Research of Cell Movements in Developing Frogs Reveals New Twists in Human Genetic Disease
Mutations in a gene known as “Fritz” may be responsible for causing human genetic disorders such as Bardet-Biedl syndrome, University of Texas at Austin developmental biologist John Wallingford and Duke University human geneticist and cell biologist Nicholas Katsanis have found.
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