Research
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Make Room for Stampede: TACC Expands Data Center for New Supercomputer
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin today announced that it is expanding the center’s current high performance computing (HPC) data center to house the new Stampede supercomputer, which will be built in late 2012 and go into full production to the national science community in January 2013.
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National Weather Service Recognizes The University of Texas at Austin as StormReady
National Weather Service officials have recognized The University of Texas at Austin as a StormReady University.
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NASA Mission, Texas Astronomers Collaborate to Find Goldilocks Planet, Others
NASA has announced the discovery of the first planet located in the “habitable zone” around a star the “just-right” orbit that’s not too hot or too cold for water to exist in liquid form, making life as we know it possible. Astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory involved in this and…
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Re-inventing excellence: Heller and Goodenough
Engineers John Goodenough and Adam Heller, named as the university’s Inventors of the Year, discuss the importance of creativity and first-rate teaching.
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New Round of Cancer Research Grants Attracts Rising Young Researcher to The University of Texas at Austin Faculty
With a $2 million startup grant from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), biologist Jason Upton will join the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in January to continue his efforts to improve existing cancer therapies and develop new ones.
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Wells Fargo Provides Grant to University of Texas for Clean Energy Business Ventures
As part of its national environmental grant program, Wells Fargo today announced that it has provided a $125,000 grant to the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin that will fund a new Clean Energy track within the 2012 Global Venture Labs Investment Competition (GVLIC).
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Pair of Black Holes ‘Weigh In’ at 10 Billion Suns, the Most Massive Yet
A team of astronomers including Karl Gebhardt and graduate student Jeremy Murphy of The University of Texas at Austin have discovered the most massive black holes to date two monsters weighing as much as 10 billion suns and threatening to consume anything, even light, within a region five times the size of our solar system.
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Harrington Fellows Bring World-Changing Ideas to The University of Texas at Austin
A biomedical engineer hoping to grow human organs, a psychologist examining why employees sometimes act in ways that destroy economic value, a mathematician exploring the limits of modern signal acquisition techniques, and a historian studying the intersections among Jewish, Greek, Roman and Christian traditions are spending much of this year at The University of Texas…
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Author, Professor to Analyze What the Language You Use Really Says About You
Event: The Austin Forum on Science, Technology and Society will host: “How Our Words Reflect Who We Are” presented by James W. Pennebaker, Liberal Arts Foundation Centennial Professor, Department Chair of the Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin.
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University of Texas at Austin Honors World-Changing Achievements of Two Faculty Inventors
Event: The first University of Texas at Austin Inventor of the Year Awards, honoring professors John Goodenough and Adam Heller.
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Student entrepreneurs give a hoot
College of Natural Sciences and McCombs School of Business undergrads started Hoot.Me, an application that turns Facebook into a study tool.
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Bob Metcalfe Receives Japan’s C&C Prize for Development of Ethernet
Bob Metcalfe, Internet pioneer and now professor of innovation at The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, has been recognized with an international award for his contributions to the development of the Internet.
