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Opinion: Obama Gets Space Funding Right
College & Campus

Opinion: Obama Gets Space Funding Right

By Steven Weinberg In the federal budget released this week, President Barack Obama calls for increasing NASA's funding by two percent while cutting its manned space flight program. If enacted by Congress, the cuts will likely end plans to return astronauts to the moon. Some claim these cuts will damage America's capabilities in science and technol...
Math Prof Honored with Teaching Award
Mathematics

Math Prof Honored with Teaching Award

Kathy Davis has been honored as the recipient of the 2010 Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment Award for Excellence in Teaching. Established in 2006, the award recognizes faculty who are engaged, dynamic instructors who inspire others, embrace innovation, collaborate with colleagues, assess teaching and learning, and use technology t...
Office Hours: George Pollak's Big Idea
Integrative Biology

Office Hours: George Pollak's Big Idea

For more than 35 years, neurobiologist George Pollak has been using echolocating bats to study the mammalian auditory system, trying to understand how the auditory system processes communication signals and how animals are able to associate a sound with its location in space. He’s done groundbreaking work in, among other areas, decoding the meaning...
Walk Softly When Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe
College & Campus

Walk Softly When Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe

In his upcoming lecture, "Walk Softly When Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe: Black Holes, Dark Matter and Dark Energy," Karl Gebhardt will offer a broad overview of what astronomers currently know, and how they're working to know more, about the "dark components" of the universe.
The Cancer-Obesity Connection
Human Ecology

The Cancer-Obesity Connection

Nutritional scientist discusses his research on obesity and cancer and their relationship to children’s health.
Dell Pediatric Research Institute
College & Campus

Dell Pediatric Research Institute

Dr. John Wallingford (College of Natural Sciences) and Dr. Tim George (Dell Children's Medical Center) highlight ways in which the new Dell Pediatric Research Institute (DPRI) will allow critical relationships to be forged between clinicians and researchers. Wallingford and George use their own work--in neural tube defects such as spina bifida--as ...
Scientists Identify Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park As One of Most Biodiverse Places on Earth
Integrative Biology

Scientists Identify Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park As One of Most Biodiverse Places on Earth

 A team of scientists has documented that Yasuní National Park, in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, shatters world records for a wide array of plant and animal groups.

Aerial Acrobats
Integrative Biology

Aerial Acrobats

This slide show features some of the 223 species of dragonflies you might encounter in the Lone Star State. You can discover more species in John Abbott’s book, “Dragonflies and Damselflies of Texas and the South-Central United States.” Abbott is curator of entomology at the Texas Natural Science Center. All photographs © John C. Abbott Nature Pho...
Pathogens, Parasitic Flies the Subjects of New Research for Fire Ant Control
Integrative Biology

Pathogens, Parasitic Flies the Subjects of New Research for Fire Ant Control

Funding from Kleberg and Bass Foundations will help biologists look for more methods of fire ant control.

Tagged for Destruction
Molecular Biosciences

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.