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.
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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.
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...
The quest for a better solar cell
Xiaoyang Zhu leads efforts to convert more of the energy in sunlight to electricity. Read the full story in the Statesman.MSI Getting Washer
The Marine Science Institute gets a new facility to clean birds, sea turtles and other wildlife that are oiled by environmental disasters. Read the story.After a Disaster, Kids Suffer Posttraumatic Stress Too
Study about PTSD in children by human ecology professor Elizabeth Gershoff is featured in Time Magazine. Read the story here.Pediatric Geneticist Joins the Nutritional Sciences Faculty
Four tons of spinach. 5,000 mice. One metaphorical and one real tortilla. These numbers tell a story. Each part of this story leads back The University of Texas at Austin and is carried by hope. Dr. Richard Finnell is beginning a new chapter in his career as a pediatric geneticist in the Department of Nutritional Sciences in the School of Human Eco...
On the Road in Panama
College Advisory Council members trekked to Panama to visit researchers like Mike Ryan and explore the tropical environments around Panama City.A Lottery Winning Streak...But Who Really Wins?
A woman wins her fourth million dollar lottery, and mathematician Michael Starbird is there to comment on the odds. Read the full story on Yahoo!.Explore Oil Spill Related Research
Marine Science Institute faculty have years of expertise studying the Gulf of Mexico. Our new "Gulf Science" Web site highlights faculty areas of research related to the oil spill and the Gulf.Read It Now
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