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College & Campus

Insight: May 2010

In this issue of Insight, the undergraduate newsletter of the College of Natural Sciences, we celebrate the end of the school year, the accomplishments of our graduating students, and the birth of a new chapter in the college’s story. We introduce you to the new Health Science Honors program. We feature profiles of two of our graduating student...
College & Campus

The Winners Are...

Every spring, the College of Natural Sciences celebrates its most outstanding graduating students by recognizing them as Dean’s Honored Graduates. It's the highest honor awarded to graduating seniors in the college. The accomplishments described in the following short profiles, of two of the 19 of this year's class of Dean's Honored Graduates, are...
College & Campus

FRI Awarded $1.6 Million by Howard Hughes Medical Institute

AUSTIN, Texas—The University of Texas at Austin has received $1.6 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to expand the Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) in the College of Natural Sciences and get more first-year science students engaged in authentic research. The funding is part of a new round of grants from HHMI totaling $79 mill...Freshman Research Initiative
In the News

Driving DNA discovery

As the director of genomic sequencing at the University of Texas at Austin, Scott Hunicke-Smith oversees projects ranging from unraveling the genes in algae and coral to looking for changes in proteins caused by, more or less, cutting and pasting sections in various ways. Read more: Seeing more sequences: Driving DNA discovery
Marine Science

Amos named 2010 Environmental Hero

Tony Amos, who started rescuing sea turtles off the Texas coast in 1982, was named a NOAA Environmental Hero last week for his role as the founder of the Animal Rehabilitation Keep (ARK) at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) and Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve in Port Aransas, Texas. Amos’s ARK rescues, re...Tony Amos and a Texas terrapin
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College & Campus

Web-cam: New Building at MSI

Watch the progress of the new building going up at the Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas.
Mathematics

James Vick Selected for Piper Award

AUSTIN, Texas — The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation has honored Dr. James W. Vick of The University of Texas at Austin for teaching excellence. Vick, the Ashbel Smith Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Mathematics, is one of 15 recipients of the 2010 Piper Professor Award given by the San Antonio-based foundation....Dr. James Vick
Computer Science

A Guggenheim for Warnow

Tandy Warnow, professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for developing algorithms that enable an accounting of 3.5 billion years of evolutionary relationships. With help from the Guggenheim, Warnow plans to take a year away from her normal academic routine. Her goal is simple: Sh...
In the News

University of Texas helping e-MDs grow talent

A growing health care information technology company is collaborating with the University of Texas on a summer internship program geared at developing the workforce that will be needed to meet the anticipated demand for electronic health records. Read more: University of Texas helping e-MDs grow talent - Austin Business Journal.
In the News

The Search for Genes Leads to Unexpected Places

Edward M. Marcotte is looking for drugs that can kill tumors by stopping blood vessel growth, and he and his colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin recently found some good targets — five human genes that are essential for that growth. Now they’re hunting for drugs that can stop those genes from working. Strangely, though, Dr. Marcotte...