Monthly Archives: July 2003

New federal funding and the highest level of flexibility will be required to achieve the goals outlined in a new report by a presidential commission on improving the nation's mental health system, the head of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at The University of Texas at Austin said.

A team from The University of Texas at Austin beat 19 competitors in a computer simulation challenge that precedes an international simulation competition in Mexico.

President Larry R. Faulkner has appointed Professor M. Michael Sharlot, former dean of the School of Law, as chair of the first Police Oversight Committee for the university.

Already notable as owner of one of five complete copies of the Gutenberg Bible in the United States, The University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center has joined a handful of international institutions in digitizing its copy of the rare Bible.

AUSTIN, Texas—Polymer nanospheres just 1/100 a hair’s width in diameter and loaded with potent anti-cancer drugs could one day become a powerful weapon in the chemotherapy arsenal, two University of Texas at Austin biomedical engineers reported today at the Controlled Release Society’s 30th Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Glasgow, Scotland. Jay Blanchette, a biomedical engineering…   » Continue Reading

About 1.9 million adult Texans have been sexually assaulted some time in their life--revealing a much larger problem than indicated by Uniform Crime Reports--according to a new study by The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work.

Improved weather and climate change predictions now result from a model of earth's gravity field 10 to 50 times more accurate than previous models, thanks to engineers at The University of Texas Center for Space Research. The aerospace engineers used information from the twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites they launched slightly over a year ago as a joint project between NASA and the German Aerospace Center.

Dallas philanthropist Peter O'Donnell has been chosen to receive the Distinguished Service Award to be presented in October by the Texas Exes, the alumni association for The University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Ted Rappaport, professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been invited to serve on the Technological Advisory Council of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Physical beauty appears to have substantial influence over how instructors are rated for teaching ability, according to new research by an economist at The University of Texas at Austin.