Yearly Archives: 2001

Careers in Engineering for Women, an outreach program for middle school girls at The University of Texas at Austin designed to increase the representation of women in engineering and technical fields, will conduct a one-week residential camp on campus next June.

The University of Texas at Austin said today (Nov. 27) it would not file any further appeals in the Hopwood case. The decision ends a decade-long case that eliminated the consideration of race in admitting students at the university’s School of Law and other higher education institutions in Texas.

A team of engineers from The University of Texas at Austin has developed a promising new process for binding tiny semiconductor crystals known as nanocrystals or "quantum dots" to nerve cells. Their technology could lead to advances in biomedical products ranging from hearing aid implants to robotic prosthetics.

Applying best practices in aviation safety to health care settings is the basis for new research being conducted by a team at The University of Texas at Austin as part of a new center funded with a five-year $7.2 million grant from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered the mechanism by which a key hormone called auxin regulates the growth and development of plants by promoting the degradation of repressor proteins. The discovery could eventually allow scientists to manipulate plant growth in desirable ways.

About 50 talented, local high school students have been selected to participate in Austin Youth Leadership Academy, a collaborative education project between the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and The University of Texas at Austin aimed at encouraging students to pursue higher education.

Nine Texas students will participate as regional finalists in the Siemens Westinghouse Science & Technology Competition hosted by The University of Texas at Austin. The competition will be held Friday and Saturday (Nov. 16-17) at the Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences (ACES) Building. (Maps of UT Austin can be obtained at: www.utexas.edu/maps/main).

The late Joe B. Frantz, a former University of Texas at Austin history professor and director of the LBJ Oral History Project, is the subject of a new biography recently published by the Texas State Historical Association.

The University of Texas at Austin will share in a $2.15 million National Science Foundation grant for research on ways to use complex sensor technology to monitor oil fields and produce sophisticated computer images for use by science and industry.

The Department of Geological Sciences and the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin have been given educational software and licenses valued at $3.8 million from Seismic Micro-Technology Inc. of Houston.