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News from May 2006
| May 4 | President Bush nominates UT engineer to Nuclear Regulatory Commission
President Bush has nominated Mechanical Engineering Professor Dale Klein as a commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a federal agency that regulates nuclear reactors, materials and wastes. Klein is on leave from The University of Texas at Austin and serves as a presidential appointee at the U.S. Department of Defense. |
| May 4 | Engineers discover predictor of mobility for fluids at nano-scale
Chemical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a new way to predict the mobility of confined fluids at nanometer scales. At these scales, often just a few molecules across, fluids exhibit significantly different properties than at the macroscopic level. |
| May 2 | Estuarine research reserve to be designated in Port Aransas, Texas
A 185,708-acre area of marshes, mangroves, open water and coastal prairie along the Texas Gulf coast will become a National Estuarine Research Reserve in a May 6 designation ceremony at The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, Texas. |
| May 2 | LBJ School class helps welcome World Congress on Information Technology
Graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs have examined Austin's efforts to address the 'digital divide,' information technology's impact on health care, and security and privacy on the Internet in concert with themes of this week's World Congress on Information Technology. |
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