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John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008)
John Archibald Wheeler passed away yesterday after contracting pneumonia. He is survived by two daughters, Alison Wheeler Lahnston and Letitia Wheeler Ufford, and a son, James English Wheeler. Read more about his life here.
Calorie Restricted Diet Prevents Pancreatic Inflammation and Cancer
Prevention of weight gain with a restricted calorie diet sharply reduced the development of pancreatic lesions that lead to cancer in preclinical research reported today by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting. The ...
Most Powerful Laser In The World Fires Up
Dr. Todd Ditmire, director of the Texas Center for High-Intensity Laser Science.AUSTIN, Texas—The Texas Petawatt laser reached greater than one petawatt of laser power on Monday morning, March 31, making it the highest powered laser in the world, Todd Ditmire, a physicist at The University of Texas at Austin, said. The Texas Petawatt is the only o...
Computer Scientist Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
AUSTIN, Texas—Peter Stone, associate professor of computer sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on teams of mobile robots. Stone is one of 190 artists, scientists and scholars who received the fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Successful candidates wer...
Graduate Program Rankings '08
Several college Ph.D. programs rank among the nation’s top ten in this year’s U.S. News & World Report survey. Rankings are based on opinions of deans, department heads and other senior faculty. College programs and rankings: Biological Sciences - 23rd Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior - 8th Chemistry - 12th Analytical Chemistr...
Sen. Cornyn Recognizes UTeach Efforts
AUSTIN—United States Senator John Cornyn cited the partnership between UTeach—The University of Texas at Austin’s innovative science and math teacher preparation program—and the Austin Independent School District (AISD) as exemplary in meeting the nation’s need for highly trained science, math and computer science secondary school teachers. Cornyn,...
Controlling Most Atoms Now Possible
AUSTIN, Texas—Stopping and cooling most of the atoms of the periodic table is now possible using a pair of techniques developed by physicist Mark Raizen at The University of Texas at Austin. Raizen stopped atoms by passing a supersonic beam through an “atomic coilgun” and cooled them using “single-photon cooling.” The techniques are a major step ...
Coral Health And Bacterial Communities
PORT ARANSAS, Texas—Bacterial communities endemic to healthy corals could change depending on the amount and type of natural and man-made dissolved organic matter in seawater, report researchers from The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute and Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida. Healthy corals naturally exude a surround...
Five Faculty Win Sloan Fellowships
AUSTIN, Texas—Five faculty members at The University of Texas at Austin were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships for 2008. Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded every year by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. The 118 winners for this year were chosen fr...Read It Now
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