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Computer Scientist, Cryptography and Security Expert Awarded Sloan Fellowship
AUSTIN, Texas—Brent Waters, assistant professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a 2010 Sloan Research Fellowship. Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded every year by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. The two-yea...
Andy Ellington Wins National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship
Andy Ellington, the Wilson M. and Kathryn Fraser Research Professor in Biochemistry, has been awarded a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (NSSEFF), one of only 11 in the country. The fellowship is intended to support unclassified, basic research that may transform the DOD's capabilities in the long term. It comes with a...
Darwin Stands Tall in Texas!
David Hillis and two other Texans were named 2010 "Friends of Darwin" by the National Center for Science Education for their decades of defending and promoting evolution. Read the full article.vvvvvvv
Oncology Researcher Joins Faculty to Study Link Between Obesity and Cancer
Dr. John DiGiovanni has joined the pharmacy and nutritional sciences faculty and will conduct research at the soon-to-open Dell Pediatric Research Institute.
Evolution Study Funded for $25 Million by National Science Foundation
The University of Texas at Austin is part of $25 million, multi-university center established by the National Science Foundation that will study evolution in action in natural and virtual settings.
The Life Savers
Simon Andrade, in Nicaragua, with some of his patients. The appeal of Global Medical Training (GMT), for Aaron Menchaca and Simon Andrade, was pretty simple. They could do good and make good at the same time. The organization gave them the to chance to advance their own pre-health professions goals while also helping to provide basic care to poo...
The Public Health Czar
For the past six years, Dr. Leanne Field has been working to make The University of Texas at Austin a national leader in preparing students for careers in the field of public health. She’s organized “Disease Detective” conferences that have become a model for, and received funding from, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the A...
The Orange Jackets
As fully “vested” active members of the Orange Jackets—a select group of 40 undergraduate women dedicated to the principles of scholarship, leadership and service—Vicki Chang and Elaine Sedenberg have a number of responsibilities. They’re official hosts of the university and are called on to greet and charm guests at various university functions. T...
The Wooten Initiative
Michael Wu (back left, with glasses) and Trieu Pham (furthest right) with other members of Stan Roux's FRI research stream. Michael Wu and Trieu Pham didn’t join the Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) in order to teach fourth and fifth graders how to do science. They joined the pioneering, research-based academic program in order to learn how to...
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