Yearly Archives: 2004

Dr. Michael Orshansky, assistant professor of electrical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $400,000, five-year National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) award, among the most prestigious given to young faculty.

The Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program, one of the most well-endowed visiting scholar and graduate fellow programs in the nation, begins its fourth year at The University of Texas at Austin with a new group of 10 outstanding scholars.

The dozen months behind us were remarkable for their leverage on the future. They gave us trials, but also advances. And in the midst of it all, we thought and planned with vision. We challenged the goals and standards at our core. The range of important issues was as broad as I have ever seen addressed in a single institution in a single year. It was a powerful performance by a healthy university with confidence in its ability to succeed in work of the most important kind, and with determination to address the future as a leader.

The average Austin-area commuter is willing to pay $12 to save an hour of commute time, according to a survey conducted by Dr. Chandra Bhat, transportation engineering professor and the Abou-Ayyash Professorship Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin.

A University of Texas at Austin Web site that allows people to peer inside animals, plants and fossils has been named a Top 50 science and technology Web site by Scientific American.com, the online component of Scientific American magazine.

The 'Address on the State of the University' by University of Texas at Austin President Larry R. Faulkner at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 6 will include a report of initiatives of his administration and a response to recent recommendations by the Commission of 125 articulating its vision of the university for the next 25 years.

ConocoPhillips, a global integrated petroleum company headquartered in Houston, has given $1 million to The University of Texas at Austin for scholarships and Latin America initiatives.

LabNow Inc. has received $14 million in first-round venture investment for its point-of-care diagnostic system from the Soros Group, Austin Ventures and other investors.

The importance of teaching in higher education will be recognized at The University of Texas at Austin on Oct. 6 when outstanding members of the faculty are presented awards during 'The University at 121: An Anniversary Observance' ceremony in Rainey Hall.

By studying cancer in mice, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have gained preliminary evidence that a novel compound that resembles vitamin E halves the size of tumors and the ability of cancer to spread to other body sites.