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UT Austin Professor to Receive AACP's Highest Award
The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), an organization that represents the country's pharmacy education, has selected professor Robert L. Talbert of the University of Texas,...
UT Austin Researchers Identify Crazy Ants' Defense Against Fire Ant Venom
The rise of invasive "crazy ants" have quickly become a force to be reckoned with in the southwestern U.S., with their growing numbers and highly adaptive biological make-up leading to an alarming...
UT Austin Research Challenges Conventions for Deciphering Dinosaurs' Color
The "rules" allowing color reconstruction from the shape of melanin-containing organelles originate with feathered dinosaurs, and are associated with an increase in melanosome diversity. However,...
American Stroke Association Awards Texan Physiologist and RN for Work on CVD
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stroke is ranked as the chief cause of death in the United States, killing over 130,00 Americans every year. 1 out of 19 deaths is from a...
UT Austin-Developed UTeach Program Will Be Expanded to Five Research Universities
The National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) recently announced the expansion of the UTeach program for teacher preparation on secondary science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). For now,...
UT Austin-Led Brain Scans Show We Take Risks Because We Can’t Stop Ourselves
When people engage in risky behaviour, such as drunk driving or unsafe sex, it's probably not because their brains' desire systems are too active, but because their self-control systems are not...
UT Austin Engineers Build One-Way Sound Device - The First Nonreciprocal Acoustic Circulator
A team of University of Texas at Austin researchers at the school's Cockrell School of Engineering has built what they claim to be the first-ever circulator for sound, proving that the fundamental...
UT Austin Researchers Assist Tulane Team In Inventing New Instrument to Study Complex Molecules
Photo From Tulane.edu Chemistry Professor Igor Rubtsov and a team of graduate students from Tulane University claim to have invented an important new scientific instrument -- the world’s first...
"Sweet Crude" Biofuel Produced From Engineered Yeast at UT Austin
Photo Credit: angellodeco/Shutterstock Fresh out of a lab in The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering, a new source of renewable energy has been developed. A team of...
UT Austin’s Dell Medical School Names Inaugural Dean
Dr. S. Claiborne “Clay” Johnston has been named inaugural dean of the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin. He will lead the school in developing new approaches for teaching,...
UT Austin Researcher Sees Promise In MIT-Developed Drug That Helps To Clear PTSD, Traumatic Memories
Painful memories such as child abuse or those resulting from wartime service can leave markers on DNA in the brain, making it difficult to remove these memories with common behavioral therapies....
UPDATE: UT Austin's TACC Launches Maverick Big Data Solution
This month, The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC), along with technology partners HP and NVIDIA, will deploy Maverick — a powerful, high-performance...
UT Austin Researcher Receives Prestigious Enrico Fermi Award For Science Achievement
Allen Bard, professor of chemistry and recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award. Photo: Marsha Miller. A UT Austin chemistry professor and researcher was recently awarded one of the oldest and highest...
UT Austin Researcher And Colleagues Find Symbiotic Fungi Inhabiting Plant Roots Have Major Impact On Atmospheric Carbon
Microscopic fungi that live in plants' roots play a major role in the storage and release of carbon from the soil into the atmosphere, according to a University of Texas at Austin researcher and his...
UT Austin Pitches Vaccine Research Findings To GlaxoSmithKline
The Austin Business Journal's Chad Swiatecki reports that University of Texas at Austin scientists and commerce specialists are hoping that a technique developed at the school to enhance vaccine...
Breast Cancer Treatment Involving Nanoparticles Carrying RNA Gene-Silencing Snippet Shows Promising Results
A collaborative effort between the Mayo Clinic, The University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Boston University have developed an injectable therapy...
University of Texas at Austin Researchers Design Battery-Powered Invisibility Cloak
Professor Andrea Alù of The University of Texas at Austin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his team, have proposed a design for an active cloak that draws energy from a...
UT Austin Study Finds Red Wine Resveratrol May Boost Immune System, Counterbalance Poor Diet
A remarkable new study conducted by researchers in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at UT Austin has revealed yet another amazing health benefit of red wine -- that it scan in fact...
UT Austin Part Of Study Revealing A Virus That Grows A Tube to Insert DNA During Infection Then Sheds It
A UT Austin researcher is one of a team of scientists contributing to a study that has revealed a curious tube-shaped structure that a certain type of virus temporarily forms in order to deliver its...
UT Austin, SwRI Researchers Receive TAMEST 2014 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards For Engineering, Technology
This week, BioNews Texas profiled Dr. Richard Bruick of UT Southwestern and Dr. Zhifeng Ren of the University of Houston, both recipients of The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science...
UT Austin's ATI Taps Beatty/Estrada Hinojosa for Wet-Laboratory Incubator Study
The University of Texas at Austin IC2 Institute's Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), recently announced a new partnership with one of the world's leading hospital and medical infrastructure teams to...
UT Austin Acoustical Engineering Student Offers Revealing Data Regarding Noise Effects At Racing Events
According to a recent article on ScienceCodex, a UT Austin graduate student recently used two coinciding events -- Canada's Formula 1 Grand Prix and his attending of Acoustical Society of America...