Research
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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.
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Planning for our future now
Jim Walker, director of sustainability for the university, kicks off the forthcoming Know series on multidisciplinary perspectives on sustainability.
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Harnessing the Power of Sunlight
Chemist Allen Bard looks to harness the power of sunlight to produce fuels that can substitute for oil.
