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Amos named 2010 Environmental Hero
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
Web-cam: New Building at MSI
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.
Natural Sciences Student Named Goldwater Scholar
College & Campus

Natural Sciences Student Named Goldwater Scholar

Miranda Denise Colletta has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship, the premier undergraduate award of its type in mathematics, natural sciences and engineering.

Biologist Searches for the Genetic Building Blocks of Social Behavior Across Species
Integrative Biology

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.

Of Brainscans and Burgers
College & Campus

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...
James Vick Selected for Piper Award
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
A Guggenheim for Warnow
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...
Where Schrödinger Dared Tread
Chemistry

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
Physics

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.

Talk: Remarkable Creatures
College & Campus

Talk: Remarkable Creatures

Sean Carroll talks about epic adventures in the search for the origins of species at the Hot Science - Cool Talks lecture series.