Research
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UT Austin Evolutionary Ecologist Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
[caption id="attachment_45599" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Eric Pianka. Photo by Marsha Miller/UT Austin."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced this week the election of 204 new members, including Eric Pianka, an evolutionary ecologist in The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Natural Sciences.
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Coming Up with Explanations Helps Children Develop Cause-and-Effect Thinking Skills, Study Shows
Asking children to come up with explanations even to themselves enhances their cause-and-effect learning abilities, according to new psychology research from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Cockrell School of Engineering Senior is One of 15 Students Nationwide to Receive Prestigious Hertz Fellowship
Ashvin Bashyam, a biomedical engineering senior in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, was selected to receive the prestigious Hertz Foundation Fellowship, a five-year award valued at $250,000. He is one of only 15 students in the nation selected for the annual fellowship this year and becomes the Cockrell…
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Phillips 66 Presents $500,000 Check to The University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin has received a $500,000 gift from Phillips 66 that will benefit a range of programs across campus and help support the Cockrell School of Engineering, the McCombs School of Business and the College of Natural Sciences.
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Neurons in the Brain Tune into Different Frequencies for Different Spatial Memory Tasks
[caption id=”attachment_45469″ align=”alignright” width=”237″ caption=”Place cells in the hippocampus provide a neuronal code for specific locations in space. Place cells codes represent upcoming locations at some times and reflect recently visited locations at other times. The findings by Bieri and colleagues show that place cells predict upcoming locations during periods of slow gamma rhythms and…
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Shade Grown Coffee Shrinking as a Proportion of Global Coffee Production
The proportion of land used to cultivate shade grown coffee, relative to the total land area of coffee cultivation, has fallen by nearly 20 percent globally since 1996, according to a new study by scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and five other institutions.
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Tillerson Family Commits $5 Million to Cockrell School of Engineering, Bolsters Engineering Education and Research Center
Rex W. Tillerson, chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, and his wife, Renda, have made a personal pledge of $5 million to support the Engineering Education and Research Center (EERC), a 430,000-square-foot facility.
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UT’s Center for Identity to Establish Public Resource Center on Identity Theft and Fraud
The Center for Identity, a research organization at The University of Texas at Austin, will establish a resource center for the public on identity theft, fraud, and privacy.
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Researchers Discover Possible New Target to Attack Flu Virus
[caption id="attachment_45357" align="alignright" width="300" caption="This region of the NS1 viral protein binds the host protein DDX21, making it a potential target for new antivirals against the flu virus"][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that a protein produced by the influenza A virus helps it outwit one of our…
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Opinion: Congress Should End Immigrant Detention Quotas
The burgeoning business of immigrant detention is an overlooked and critical civil rights issue that demands our attention, says clinical law professor Barbara Hines. Read more.
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Opinion: America’s Promise is Possible
“Our Civil Rights legacy should be that we ensured equality through policies and laws that outlawed discrimination, period,” says prof, former Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UT Center for Identity to Host Third Annual ID360: The Global Forum on Identity
AUSTIN, Texas Data storage, mobile threats, security breaches and growing concerns among consumers are the focus of the third annual ID360: The Global Forum on Identity.
