Research
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Key Votes Partnership Helps Annette Strauss Institute Create More Voters, Better Citizens at National Level
The Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation will begin this month managing Project Vote Smart’s Key Votes Program, a free online database that provides citizens with access to congressional and state legislative voting records compiled by undergraduate researchers. The institute was among six universities vying to manage the Key Votes program.
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With $2.4 Million Grant, Researchers to Decode Geranium’s Evolutionary Mysteries
Botany researcher Dr. Robert Jansen and his colleagues have received a four-year, $2.4 million grant from the Plant Genome Program of the National Science Foundation to investigate the genomes of the geranium plant and 15 related species.
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Who will take control of the U.S. Senate?
We have about 10 days to go until the 2010 mid-term elections. Based on the high probability of the Republicans winning the House, most eyes on election night will be focused on the Senate.
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Pakistan floods rival earthquakes, tsunamis in severity
No one imagined the thirsty land of Pakistan would see massive devastation due to an excess of water. A Fulbright Scholar and grad student makes a plea for support.
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Prof analyzes aggressive teenage driving
Transportation engineering Professor Chandra Bhat explains why a pickup could be the most dangerous vehicle for a 16- to 17-year-old to drive. Teens driving them are 100 percent more likely to be severely injured during a crash than a teen of the same age driving a car.
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Energy: Recognizing how much isn’t there
To deal with the energy crisis we must deal with a consumption crisis, but politicians are reluctant to run a campaign based on a call for “less” — the American Dream, after all, is always “more.”
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Are social media and politics hitting the mark for young voters?
Campaign spin doctors — from both the left and the right — hope to lure new voters to their candidates through Facebook and Twitter, but will they instead lead cautious voters to further tune out the political “news”?
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Project to Study ‘Dark Energy’ Receives $8 Million from National Science Foundation
A project to discover the nature of dark energy, a mysterious force causing the expansion of the universe to speed up, has received an $8 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Industry, Academic Experts Host Conference on Information Technology Innovation
Event: Information Management 30th Anniversary Symposium and Dinner When: “Into the Cloud” symposium, Friday, Nov. 5, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Celebration dinner, Saturday, Nov. 6, 6-9 p.m.
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Louise Epstein Named Entrepreneur-in-Residence at McCombs School of Business
Louise Epstein, founder of Charge-Off Clearinghouse and a former Austin City Council member, has been named entrepreneur-in-residence in the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship at the McCombs School of Business of The University of Texas at Austin.
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Comet Hartley 2 Visible in Morning Sky This Week
The small comet Hartley 2 makes its closest approach to Earth today, and should be visible to the unaided eye for several days under dark skies in the hours before dawn, according to the editors of StarDate magazine.
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On immigration: Conservative public opinion versus liberal public policy
In this eighth installment of the “Border Views” video series, Gary Freeman, chair of the Department of Government, discusses the problems of an immigration policy focused more on family reunification than on bringing highly skilled workers to the nation.
