Research
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Life Science “Study Break” Funded for $10,000 by Credit Union
The Life Science Library has received $10,000 from the University Federal Credit Union (UFCU) to sponsor its popular Science Study Break program.
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“Free Speech Dialogues” Examines Political Speech and Campaign Finance Regulation
Event: “Free Speech Dialogues,” sponsored by the BBandT Chair for the Study of Objectivism at The University of Texas at Austin. Free and open to the public.
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Building a ‘Green Star State’
A Q-and-A with graduate student Melissa Lott, who recently blogged for “Scientific American” on Texas’ renewable energy resources.
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The first Longhorn in space …
… was a monkey named Sam. Sam and another Rhesus monkey named Miss Sam, were trained at what’s now the J.J. Pickle Research Campus.
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University of Texas at Austin Professor Most Influential Management Information Systems Researcher
Andrew B. Whinston, professor at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, is identified as the most influential researcher in the field of management information systems in a study that measures the productivity and impact of published work by scientists and scholars using a yardstick called the h-index.
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Scientist Conveys Importance of ‘Seeing’ Data in the 21st Century
Event: Dr. Kelly Gaither, director of data and information analysis at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), will discuss why scientific visualization is such a powerful tool for understanding science in the 21st century.
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Digital Collection Highlights Photos Taken In Corpus Christi During Great Depression
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has made available online the digital collection “The Itinerant Photographer: Photographs of Corpus Christi Businesses in the 1930s.”
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Oil past and present
An institution that has run on fossil fuels for a century is getting greener — in a Longhorn-worthy way.
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Engineering Wireless Researchers Awarded NSF Industry Collaboration Center
The Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), a research center within The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Collaborative Research Center.
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ConocoPhillips CEO James Mulva to Address Energy Forum
Event: The University of Texas at Austin Energy Forum is a student-initiated two-day conference that brings together a cross-section of the university’s faculty, students and staff alongside industry, government and NGO partners.
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Men More Likely to Stick with Girlfriends Who Sleep with Other Women than Other Men, Research Shows
Men are more than twice as likely to continue dating a girlfriend who has cheated on them with another woman than one who has cheated with another man, according to new research from a University of Texas at Austin psychologist.
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Fluorescent Color of Coral Larvae Predicts Whether They’ll Settle Or Swim
Young staghorn coral that fluoresce redder are less likely to settle and develop into coral polyps than their greener peers, University of Texas at Austin biologists have discovered.
