CANCER RESEARCH FUNDED FOR $11.6 MILLION
The Department of Biomedical Engineering is among a consortium of leading research entities selected to receive up to $11.6 million from the National Cancer Institute to establish a center to conduct innovative cancer research. The new center will be called the Center for Transport Oncophysics. The goal of the five-year initiative is to engage trans-disciplinary scientific teams from fields of engineering, physics, mathematics and chemistry to examine new, non-traditional approaches to cancer research. The Center will receive $2.4 million during the first year and could receive funds totaling $11.6 million over a five-year period.
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RESEARCHERS STUDYING SWITCHGRASS RECEIVE $4.6 MILLION FROM USDA
Researchers who are working with scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have received a $4.6 million grant to explore how switchgrass, a native prairie grass and promising source of biofuel, will fare under future climate change. Tom Juenger, associate professor of integrative biology, and Christine Hawkes and Tim Keitt, faculty in the School of Biological Sciences, are the principal investigators of the project, which was awarded by the National Science Foundation through its Plant Genome Research Program.
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MCCOMBS ELIMINATES 16 POSITIONS AS A RESULT OF BUDGET CUTS
Supervisors in the McCombs School of Business have notified 16 people that their positions have been eliminated as a result of the current budgetary crisis, with a final employment date of Jan. 31 for the affected positions. Staff reductions at the school were announced Sept. 15 and finalized on Monday, Nov. 2. Counseling will be available through the Employee Assistance Program. Affected employees will be given "special consideration" status in the hiring process for future positions at the University.
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SCIENTISTS GET $1.5 MILLION TO FIND MORE EFFECTIVE ANTIVIRAL DRUGS
University of Texas at Austin and Rice University scientists have won a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to scrutinize the influenza A virus for clues that could lead to more effective antiviral drugs. Strains of influenza A include this year's pandemic H1N1 variety, some seasonal varieties and the much-feared H5N1 bird flu. Under the four-year program, molecular biologists in Robert Krug's lab in Austin will work to determine important functions of the nucleoprotein, one of fewer than a dozen proteins encoded by the flu virus.
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TEXAS POLITICS PROJECT PARTNERS WITH TEXAS TRIBUNE
The Texas Tribune, a new nonprofit, nonpartisan public media organization based in Austin, will sponsor five public opinion polls that will be conducted over the next 16 months by the University's Texas Politics Project. The collaboration will build on the political polling that the Texas Politics Project has conducted since 2008. The polls will focus on upcoming primary and general elections as well as Texans' views on key state and national issues.
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PHARMACY PROFESSOR RECEIVES TWO-YEAR, $841,000 GRANT
Andrea Gore, professor of pharmacy, has received a two-year, $841,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the transgenerational effects of environmental contaminants on neurological and reproductive development. The research may help in developing public policy and prevention and wellness intervention programs.
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SPEED NAMED ASSISTANT VP FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN DDCE
Shannon Speed, associate professor of anthropology, has been named assistant vice president for community engagement in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE). Speed is the director of the DDCE Community Engagement Center in East Austin and is responsible for community partnerships through the Community Engagement Incubator, the Volunteer and Service Learning Center, the Regional Foundation Library, the Institute for Community, University and School Partnerships, the DDCE Faculty Fellows Program, the African American Men and Boys Harvest Foundation, and Art and Social Engagement.
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PROFESSOR TO DEVELOP BETTER TECHNOLOGY FOR BLOOD SCREENING
Jennifer Brodbelt, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has received a $734,068 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new method for rapidly screening blood samples for biomarkers. Biomarkers are small molecules that indicate the presence of a particular physiological condition, typically a disease. The new method, if successful, could prove useful not just for identifying markers of specific diseases such as cancer or heart disease, but for discovering broader metabolic patterns correlated with conditions such as aging or obesity.
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FOUNDATION GIVES $120,000 FOR NURSING SCHOLARSHIPS
The School of Nursing has received $120,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to award 12 scholarships to students in a fast-track master's program. The foundation is boosting efforts to alleviate the nation's nursing shortage by dramatically expanding the pipeline of students in accelerated nursing programs. "Texas lags behind the rest of the country in the numbers of nurses prepared at the graduate level," says Alexa Stuifbergen, interim dean of the School of Nursing. She says the grant will help the school prepare future nurse leaders from underrepresented groups.
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