Tag Archive: College of Natural Sciences 
Provost Appoints Interim Director to Lead Energy Institute
Professor Thomas F. Edgar, a chemical engineer with extensive teaching, administrative, research and industry experience, has been named interim director of the Energy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin.
UT Chemist Wins Japan Prize (50 Million Yen) for Innovative Semiconductor Materials
Willson and a colleague first conceived of chemically amplifed resists in 1979, when Willson was a researcher at IBM Corp.
Engineered Immune Cells Resist Infection from HIV and Could Ultimately Replace Drug Therapy
Researchers cut and pasted a series of HIV-resistant genes into T cells, specialized immune cells targeted by the virus.
Lack of Key Enzyme in the Metabolism of Folic Acid Leads to Birth Defects
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that the lack of a critical enzyme in the folic acid metabolic pathway leads to neural tube birth defects in developing embryos.
Designer Bacteria May Lead to Better Vaccines
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a menu of 61 new strains of genetically engineered E. coli that may improve the efficacy of vaccines for diseases such as flu, pertussis, cholera and HPV.
Virus Caught in the Act of Infecting a Cell
The detailed changes in the structure of a virus as it infects an E. coli bacterium have been observed for the first time, report researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Health) Medical School this week in Science Express.
Two Professors to Receive National Medal of Science
Allen Bard, in the College of Natural Sciences, and John Goodenough, in the Cockrell School of Engineering, are two of 12 eminent researchers who will receive the National Medal of Science this year, bringing the university’s overall total to five since 1962.
Bumblebees Do Best Where There Is Less Pavement and More Floral Diversity
Landscapes with large amounts of paved roads and impervious construction have lower numbers of ground-nesting bumblebees, which are important native pollinators, a study from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Berkeley shows.
Developers of Manufacturing Technology Named Inventors of the Year at UT Austin
The University of Texas at Austin honored two researchers whose collaboration led to a company that aims to change how electronics are made. Professors C. Grant Willson and S.V. Sreenivasan received the Inventor of the Year award Thursday for developing a nanolithography process used for manufacturing computer chips, hard drives and other electronic components.
Health Information Exchange Laboratory Launches at The University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin formally launches its Health Information Exchange (HIE) laboratory this week. This laboratory simulates the national, state and local networks that are being developed to electronically exchange medical data. The laboratory is part of the university’s pioneering Health IT program offering a certificate program designed to “fast track” university graduates into the rapidly evolving field of health IT.
