May 10 Chemical engineer receives $264,000 to investigate ways to help plastic conduct electricity
Dr. Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo at The University of Texas at Austin has received a 2005 Young Investigator Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to find ways to improve the ability of polyaniline to conduct electricity.May 4 Zoology Professor Eric Pianka wins $10,000 Hamilton Book Award
The winners of this year's University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards were announced March 23 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin. The Hamilton Awards are the highest honor of literary achievement given to published authors at The University of Texas at Austin.May 3 Engineer receives $2.1 million to improve oral delivery device for treating diabetes, other diseases responding to protein drugs
Dr. Nicholas A. Peppas at The University of Texas at Austin has received a four-year, $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to analyze a polymer-based approach for providing insulin to the body that may eventually end the need to treat diabetes with daily injections.May 3 Lizard diversity was determined long ago, according to Texas, Oklahoma researchers
The diversity of present-day lizards might have been determined 200 million years ago when two groups of lizards diverged and not come more recently as the result of environment and competition, according to researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oklahoma.May 2 UT Remembers on Friday, May 6, to honor campus community members who died in previous year
UT Remembers, an annual day of remembrance honoring members of The University of Texas at Austin community who died in the previous year, will be held on the campus on Friday, May 6.May 2 Doctoral student awarded interdisciplinary fellowship promoting community engagement
Jodi Skipper, a doctoral student in anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the second of three Scholar-in-Residence Fellowships, part of the Project in Interpreting the Texas Past, to promote community engagement. She will work with the Women's Museum in Dallas.
