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Friday, 05 March 2010

A Swarm of Salmonella

Dr. Rasika Harshey The same kind of evolutionary mechanism that explains why people tend to cross an intersection in an orderly fashion, or why a flock of birds can turn in the air with such balletic grace, may help explain why Salmonella bacteria are able to swarm together to better resist antibiotics. That’s one of the implications of a new ...

Friday, 26 February 2010

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...

Monday, 22 February 2010

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...

Monday, 22 February 2010

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...

Monday, 22 February 2010

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...

Monday, 22 February 2010

The World Travellers

These four students have recognized, and taken advantage of, one of the incontrovertible facts of the modern world. Science is global, and the scientific leaders of the 21st century will be the people who understand global issues and have the courage to immerse themselves in the unknown. Check out their stories: Kyle in Kiwiland Although most na...

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Danke schön, Deutschland

Tara Saad on holiday in Salzburg, Austria Tara Saad knew two things when she began planning her study abroad experience. Germany had to be the destination, and laboratory research had to be the main purpose. Beyond that, though, Saad had to get creative. “I individually emailed more than a hundred professors at various German universities with...

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

The European Perspective

Houston native Phuoc Anh-Thi Nguyen made the most of her summer abroad in Denmark. She got credit for two courses that she was able to transfer toward her Biology/Pre-pharmacy degree at UT. She stayed with a host family and learned about Danish culture. And she got a new perspective on the different ways that health care can be delivered. I sat do...

Friday, 08 January 2010

Tagged for Destruction

The relationship between human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer has led biologist Jon Huibregtse on a journey deep into the regulatory structure of the human cell.

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

The Speaker: Fall Graduation 2009

Erica Rubin, who was selected as the student speaker for the college’s fall graduation ceremonies, was born in Dallas and graduated from Westwood High School in Austin. As a biology major in the college, she researched bacterial virus evolution, spent a semester in the Australian rainforest studying the indigenous flora, and completed a research pr...