The Graduate School
Research
Through the efforts of individual faculty members and the work of 87 organized research units, scholarly inquiry at UT Austin covers a broad range--from presidential elections to the testing of cancer fighting drugs that could supplement chemotherapy treatments for cancer patients.
Research is funded by grants and contracts from governmental agencies and from the private sector, through gifts from individuals, foundations and corporations, from the Available University Fund and through state appropriations. About $281 million was awarded to UT Austin in grants and contracts in fiscal year 1989-99.
The presence of the university has long been a magnet for high tech growth in Texas, and has been a deciding factor in the location of several major research initiatives and high tech companies in the Austin area and elsewhere in the state. Included in this group are companies such as Sematech, MCC, Motorola, Dell and IBM.
The following are some examples of the many and varied dissertation topics from the past three years:
- artificial heart pump for children
- how alcohol affects brain development
- antibody engineering: cloning, screening and assay
- the impact of historical simulations on the promotion of historical understanding
- attitudes toward ethnicity and assimilation during the Roman empire
- the effects of community-based pharmaceutical care services on health care utilization and expenses
- negative news and negative consequences: one reason Americans hate politics
- physical activity as a moderator of life stress
- communication patterns in marital relationships
- do affirmative action programs pay off?
- racial discrimination and minority business enterprise
- predictors and consequences of infidelity
- air crews' evaluations of flight deck automation training and use: measuring and ameliorating threats to safety
- representing the holocaust: trauma, memory, and the imagination
- a study of managerial accounting system change: deregulation of the Texas electric utility industry
- improved methodologies for stochastically forecasting oil recovery processes
- modeling the mechanics of the normal and reconstructed knee joint
- effect of vertical earthquake on bridge responses
- genetic characterization of breast cancer development
- discoveries and experiments in the automation of mathematical reasoning
- validation and applications of satellite radar altimetry
- watching crime in America: how discourses about crime demonize, divert and control
- black holes shrouded in plasma