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Going Green
Chemistry

Going Green

Dr. Michael Krische in the lab with post-doctoral fellow Andriy Barchuk. Photo: Marsha Miller. Medicines are made to heal, but ironically, the chemical reactions used to make them can generate unwanted, toxic wastes that can do harm to humans and the environment. Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Michael Krische would like to minimize pr...Krische and Barchuk
Life on the Outside: David Hillis
College & Campus

Life on the Outside: David Hillis

If you’re looking for Professor David Hillis on most weekends, point your compass West-Northwest and drive out of Austin for about one and a half hours through some of the most beautiful land in Texas. When you get to the community of Fly Gap, look for a ranch with a name that only an evolutionary biologist would choose: the Double Helix. There...David Hillis. Photo by Matt Lankes.
Study Finds High Media Use in Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers
Integrative Biology

Study Finds High Media Use in Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers

AUSTIN, Texas--Seventy-five percent of infants, toddlers and preschoolers watch television daily for an average of more than one hour, report researchers from The University of Texas at Austin in their comprehensive study of media use among children ages zero to six. Dr. Elizabeth Vandewater and her colleagues also found that computers are making ...
Boost for Creating Standards for Sustainable Landscapes
Integrative Biology

Boost for Creating Standards for Sustainable Landscapes

AUSTIN, Texas--The Meadows Foundation of Dallas has awarded the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center of The University of Texas at Austin a $262,000 grant to aid its effort to create standards for sustainable landscapes in partnership with the American Society of Landscape Architects and the U.S. Botanic Garden, both of Washington, D.C. At a time w...
2007 Undergraduate Research Forum Awards
College & Campus

2007 Undergraduate Research Forum Awards

On Friday, April 20, The College of Natural Sciences celebrated its student-scientists at the annual Undergraduate Research Forum, a one-day event during which more than 120 students gave posters and oral presentations describing their research. The best and most innovative posters and oral presentations were recognized with awards sponsored by th...
Unveiling a Next-Generation Computer Processor
Computer Science

Unveiling a Next-Generation Computer Processor

AUSTIN, Texas--The prototype for a revolutionary new general-purpose computer processor, which has the potential of reaching trillions of calculations per second, has been designed and built by a team of computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin. The new processor, known as TRIPS (Tera-op, Reliable, Intelligently adaptive Processing...
2007 College Faculty and Staff Awards
College & Campus

2007 College Faculty and Staff Awards

The College of Natural Sciences is filled to capacity with intelligent, creative and incredibly devoted people. Each spring, we have the opportunity to honor some of the individuals that make the College of Natural Sciences so wonderful. This year's 2007 honorees are: OFFICE OF THE DEAN Kate Waldman Dean’s Office Staff Excellence Award Michael ...
Cheaper disease treatments expected from faster approach to developing therapeutic antibodies
Molecular Biosciences

Cheaper disease treatments expected from faster approach to developing therapeutic antibodies

AUSTIN, Texas--A method of mass-producing disease-fighting antibodies entirely within bacteria has been developed by a research group at The University of Texas at Austin. The group led by Dr. George Georgiou developed the new antibody-production approach to improve upon processes used previously to identify new drugs.  Drug companies have used th...
Exploring Dark Energy
Astronomy

Exploring Dark Energy

On a rare cloudy October night in the Davis Mountains of West Texas, University of Texas at Austin astronomers wrangled with what they believe to be the largest mystery of the universe: dark energy.

Complex Flows of Turbulence Visualized
Physics

Complex Flows of Turbulence Visualized

AUSTIN, Texas--The convoluted tangle describing turbulence has been visualized for the first time by a group of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Their work, published in the April 6 issue of Physical Review Letters, may ultimately help engineers design more efficient planes, ca...