Monthly Archives: June 2002

University researchers make significant step toward understanding alcohol’s addictive nature

June 17, 2002

In what is considered a significant step toward understanding how addiction to alcohol can occur, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a mechanism linking a previously identified neuroprotein to the effects of alcohol on the brain.

Architecture students to build solar-powered house on National Mall for fall Solar Decathlon competition

June 17, 2002

A group of architecture students from The University of Texas at Austin will build an 800-square-foot home-office this summer that they will soon afterward dismantle, load onto trucks and reassemble on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

EnterTech program at The University of Texas at Austin’s IC2 Institute receives Microsoft grant for program assisting disadvantaged youths

June 11, 2002

EnterTech, a program of the E-Learning & Training Labs at the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Microsoft Community Affairs Giving Program to enable underemployed young people in Texas to take a Web-based workforce training course and gain skills needed to obtain and sustain employment.

The Hearst Corporation pledges $1 million to fund Journalism chair at The University of Texas at Austin

June 4, 2002

The Hearst Corporation has pledged $1 million to create the Frank A. Bennack Jr. Chair in Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism.

Ainslie to unveil photo exhibit honoring death of Jasper resident

June 4, 2002

Four years after a horrific racial murder catapulted the rural city of Jasper, Texas, into national headlines, a special traveling documentary photo exhibit will profile the unsung role of the Jasper Ministerial Alliance. The exhibit will debut at 7 p.m., June 7-21, in Gallery Square, 126 E. Lamar St., in Jasper.

University of Texas at Austin researchers engineer anthrax-battling antibodies

June 3, 2002

In a series of laboratory tests conducted last summer, rats given the antibody survived 10 times a normally lethal dosage of anthrax toxin.