Oct. 15 Global Seed Banking Milestone Celebrated by Wildflower Center, 122 Other Organizations
An international partnership of 54 countries led by the United Kingdom's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is celebrating a decade of work to set aside seeds for future generations from 10 percent of the world's wild flowering species.Oct. 15 Discovery of Enzyme Structure Points Way to Creating Less Toxic Anti-HIV Drugs
By discovering the atomic structure of a key human enzyme, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have pointed the way toward designing anti-HIV drugs with far less toxic side effects.Oct. 9 Resiliency Among People Who Work with Child Abuse Victims Subject of New $500,000 University of Texas at Austin Study
The Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (IDVSA) at The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work has received a $500,000 federal grant to create a program to build resiliency among staff and volunteers who work with child abuse victims.Oct. 8 Eurasian Migration Research Funded with $960,345 National Science Foundation Grant
Cynthia Buckley, chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and associate professor in the Department of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a $960,345 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her project titled "People, Power, and Conflict in the Eurasian Migration System."Oct. 5 Learning to Speak: Toddlers Develop Individualized Rules for Grammar, Computer-Based Research Shows
Using advanced computer modeling and statistical analysis, a University of Texas at Austin linguistics professor has found that toddlers develop their own individual structures for using language that are very different from what we traditionally think of as grammar.Oct. 5 About 70 Percent of New High School Principals Leave Within Five Years, Study Says
Only about half of newly hired Texas public school principals are staying on the job at least three years and principals in high-poverty schools are leaving the soonest, according to a study out of The University of Texas at Austin's College of Education. Dr. Ed Fuller and Dr. Michelle Young, who are part of the University [...]Oct. 2 Socioeconomic Desegregation Alone is Not Effective in Improving Classroom Performance, Study Reveals
Although past research has linked academic achievement gains to socioeconomic desegregation in schools, a new analysis reveals some hidden academic and psychological risks of integrating low-income students in schools with predominantly middle- and upper-class student populations that might chip away at these achievement gains.Oct. 2 Anthropologist Wins "Ig Nobel" Prize for Study of Why Pregnant Women Don't Tip Over
University of Texas at Austin anthropologist Liza Shapiro and two fellow researchers on Thursday won an Ig Nobel Prize—dedicated to "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think"—for a 2007 study on the evolutionary reasons pregnant women don't tip over.Oct. 1 Scholar's Fitzgerald, Hemingway Materials Donated to Harry Ransom Center
A collection of correspondence from the estate of Matthew Bruccoli (1931-2008), a professor, researcher and editor known for his lifelong interest in and scholarship on F. Scott Fitzgerald, has been donated to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. The collection was a gift from [...]Sept. 29 New Digital Security Program Doesn't Protect as Promised
University of Texas at Austin scientists have shown that they can break "Vanish," a program that promised to self-destruct computer data, such as emails and photographs, and thereby protect a person's privacy.Sept. 29 Electric Fish Plug In to Communicate
Just as people plug in to computers, smart phones and electric outlets to communicate, electric fish communicate by quickly plugging special channels into their cells to generate electrical impulses, University of Texas at Austin researchers have discovered.Sept. 28 National Science Foundation Awards $7 Million to TACC for Remote Visualization and Data Analysis
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $7 million grant to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin for a three-year project that will provide a new computing resource and the largest, most comprehensive suite of visualization and data analysis (VDA) services to the open science community.
