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Research Prizes and Honors
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Professor Receives Naval Research Young Investigator Award
 Hal Alper, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has received an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program award for his proposal titled "Establishing a Fungal Platform for Alkane Biosynthesis." Alper was selected from more than 270 applicants for "compelling research that has potential to deliver innovative naval science and technology."
Alper will receive more than $510,000 in total to continue his study on alkane biosynthesis, which will be awarded over three years.
News and Information
Office of Sponsored Projects Holds Open House
The Office of Sponsored Projects and The Office of Industry Engagement will have an open house of their new offices from 3-4:30 p.m., May 18, 2011.
Go to North Office Building A (NOA), room 5.300, to see OSP’s and OIE’s new home and to NOA 4.300 to see Sponsored Projects Award Administration's new home.
Light refreshments will be served.
Quoted-UT Researchers in the News
 (In an article about an experiment that simulated schizophrenia in computers, Risto Miikkulainen, professor in the Department of Computer Science, described the goal of the project).
“We are trying to quantify being delusional,” says Risto Miikkulainen, a professor of computer science and neuroscience at Texas, who designed the computer network on which the hypotheses were tested.
Research Opportunities
Important University Research Deadlines
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The University of Texas at Austin Stimulus Package Web page is online.
Funding Sources
Department of Defense
Request for Information - 100 Year Starship Study
Deadline: June 3, 2011
Open Manufacturing
Deadline: June 23, 2011
DoD FY11 Prostate Cancer Research Program Impact Award
Deadline: Sept. 1, 2011
Department of Justice
Building Opportunity Out of Science and Technology
Deadline: June 15, 2011
Department of State
Building Opportunity Out of Science and Technology
Deadline: June 23, 2011
National Institutes of Health
Data Concepts and Terminology Standards for Clinical Research and Drug Development
Deadline: Deadlines: June 1, 2011; Nov. 15, 2011
National Science Foundation
Chemical Theory, Models and Computational Methods
Deadline: Aug. 1, 2011
Chemical Oceanography
Deadline: Aug. 15, 2011
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences: Investigator-initiated research projects
Deadline: Sept. 6, 2011
Science of Science and Innovation Policy
Deadline: Sept. 9, 2011
Elementary Particle Physics
Deadline: Sept. 28, 2011
Manufacturing and Construction Machines and Equipment
Deadline: Oct. 1, 2011
Civil Infrastructure Systems
Deadline: Oct. 1, 2011
Arts, Humanities and Culture
National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Stipends
Deadline: Sept. 29, 2011
Other Funding Opportunities
Neotropical Grasslands Conservancy
Student Grant Program
Deadline: Aug. 1, 2011
BD Biosciences
Immunology Grants
Deadline: Sept. 2, 2011
Stem Cell Grants
Deadline: Dec. 19, 2011
Octapharma
Grants focusing on Immunotherapy, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, and Hematology
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2011
Research Project
Collaborative Research: Incorporating Physiological Variation in Mechanistic Range Models for Ecological Forecasting
 RESEARCHERS: Timothy Keitt, associate professor, Section of Integrative Biology; Michael J. Angilletta Jr., associate professor, Organismal, Integrative and Systems Biology, Arizona State University; and Lauren Buckley, assistant professor, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AGENCY: National Science Foundation
AMOUNT: $148,091
The scientists will use computer models to investigate the effects of climate change on the continental distribution of a well studied and widespread lizard. The model will link the attributes of individual lizards to assess how whole populations of lizards adapt to specific environmental conditions.
Then the researchers will evaluate how the evolution of physiology would affect the distribution of lizards under various climate change scenarios. This project will set the stage for a new modeling approach that considers how evolutionary adaptation and gene flow can help determine the geographic range of a species.
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