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Posts highlighting some of the many articles mentioning College of Natural Sciences faculty and students in the media.
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.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!.What will get sick from the slick?
Lee Fuiman and Joan Holt provide insights into possible effects of the oil spill on bluefin tuna and whale sharks as part of this Nature News story.New ways to double phone battery life
Doctoral student Eric Rozner says that battery capacity isn't keeping up with the rest of the technology. Read more on CNN.com.Game theory could help conservation efforts
Biologist Sahotra Sarkar (along with a colleague in the philosophy department) are using game theory to assist biodiversity efforts. Read the full story.RoboCup 2010: Could Robot versus Human Be Far Behind?
Peter Stone's artificial intelligence team makes an appearance in this Scientific American article about the RoboCup 2010.Quantum Dots, Obama and the Energy Quest
Xiaoyang Zhu's new research could significantly increase solar cell efficiency. It's covered in this New York Times Dot Earth blog post.Along the Texas coast, they’ve lived this before
Tony Amos has seen this disaster before. Mexico’s Ixtoc I oil spill in 1979 showed what could happen to our beaches...Read the full Houston Chronicle article.Gulf oil spill keeping UT researchers busy
Professors such as marine scientist Zhanfei Liu spring to action in aiding in disaster. Read the full story.Telescope at UT still inspiring awe
Public can glimpse heavenly views for free at observatory every weekend. Read the full story on the Statesman.Levitating glass bead proves Einstein wrong
Albert Einstein said it couldn't be done, but now the velocity of a microscopic particle as it zigzags through air has been directly measured...Now a team led by Mark Raizen of the University of Texas at Austin has found a way to do it – at least in air. Read the full article.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 discoveryUniversity 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.Read It Now
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