Biologist Searches for the Genetic Building Blocks of Social Behavior Across Species
For Hans Hofmann, the quest for the genetic building blocks of human behavior begins with a small fish.
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Of Brainscans and Burgers
In this week’s installment of Raw Science, we link to papers in the fields of environmental engineering, systematic biology, natural history, and neurobiology. Of Brainscans and Burgers Can we predict weight gain from looking at your brain with an fMRI? “Reward circuitry responsivity to food predicts future increases in body mass: Moder...
Where Schrödinger Dared Tread
When Devin Matthews first walked into professor John Stanton’s office, Stanton appraised him as a pretty typical first-year student. Matthews had a scruffy beard, a self-effacing manner, and a high school transcript that placed him somewhere in the middle of the pack of his Tulsa, Oklahoma high school class. Matthews had wanted to meet with Stant...
Physicist Allan MacDonald Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Dr. Allan MacDonald, professor of physics, receives one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer in the United States.
2010 Undergraduate Research Forum Awards
On Friday, April 16, the college held its annual Undergraduate Research Forum. More than 120 students gave posters and oral presentations describing their research. The best and most innovative posters and oral presentations were recognized with awards judged and sponsored by the university, faculty, alumni and industry. Awards this year included ...Foodie for Life
As a fourth-grader, Ryan Riddle asked his parents for a George Foreman Grill for Christmas. And that was only the beginning for Riddle, a Dean’s Scholars biochemistry major from Spring, TX. Before he got to middle school, Riddle was taking week-long cooking courses over the summer. He downloaded recipes from the internet and convinced his parents...
Vision Quest
An example of how age-related macular degeneration (AMD) can distort vision. For the roughly 10 million Americans who suffer from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), there are much greater worries than having it take longer than it once did to adapt to the darkness of a movie theater, or not being very good at identifying when a light source...
Swine Flu Crusaders
Kelly Broussard (left) and Sami Miller in the lab in Brownsville. When Sami Miller and Kelly Broussard decided to head down to the border last summer, they didn’t expect to end up in the middle of the global swine flu pandemic. As participants in the college’s Public Health Internship Program, they knew they’d be spending the summer at the Bro...
By the Light of the Moon
In this week's installment of Raw Science, we link to recent papers in the fields of marine science, human ecology, synthetic chemistry, and infectious disease epidemiology. By the Light of the Moon Marine scientists review the various mechanisms by which fish are able to align their reproductive cycles with phases of the moon. “External and...
One Fish, Two Fish, Five Gas Giants
In this inaugural installment of "Raw Science," our regular round-up of scientific papers authored by College of Natural Sciences researchers, we link to papers in the fields of marine science, molecular virology, human development, and planet detection. Building a Better Phage Biologists look for ways to improve the efficacy of phage therapy,...
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