Yearly Archives: 2007

Vijay Mahajan, a marketing professor at The University of Texas at Austin, has received the 2007 Berry-AMA Book Prize for the Best Book in Marketing from the American Marketing Association Foundation (AMAF).

School-age children participating in a federally funded University of Texas at Austin asthma health education program improved significantly in their asthma self-management, skill at using an inhaler and had 50 percent fewer hospitalizations, study results show.

The University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory and Texas A&M University Department of Physics have announced that the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Consortium has decided to build the GMT at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Las Campanas is operated by the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

A bronze statue of civil rights leader Cesar Chavez was unveiled today (Oct. 9) on the West Mall of The University of Texas at Austin campus during a celebration to honor his legacy as an advocate for social justice.

An atomic coilgun that slows and stops atoms has been developed, report physicists from The University of Texas at Austin in the New Journal of Physics.

Former University of Texas at Austin men's tennis player Graham Whaling has contributed $2 million to UT Athletics to be applied toward the construction of a proposed indoor tennis facility.

On the 50th anniversary of the publication of 'Atlas Shrugged,' the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship renewed a $300,000 fellowship for research on Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin.

In the 1920s, J.T. Patterson, the chairman of the Department of Zoology at The University of Texas at Austin, wanted to push his school into the top ranks of genetic research. So he did what Texans do, he recruited a top player for his team. The recruit was Hermann J. Muller, a born-and-raised New Yorker…   » Continue Reading

Applied Research Laboratories, a research unit of The University of Texas at Austin (ARL:UT), has received a contract that could reach as much as $928 million by the end of its 10-year term to conduct research and development for the U.S. Navy.

Despite the sobering amount of carbon dioxide needing storage to reduce greenhouse gases, funneling the offensive chemical underground remains technologically possible for the oil industry, says Dr. Steven Bryant, associate professor of petroleum and geosystems engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.