Focus on Science: Fall 2006

Features

Cancer Fighter
Professor's personal battle leads to development of new cancer drug

All That Math Jazz
A playful look at math and the everyday

Intelligently Designed
Evolutionary principles and neural networks power a unique video game

Cellular Microfabrication
Changing the way neurons are studied and understood

Living Art
A team of students create the first-ever bacterial photographs - living pictures on biological film made of bacteria

Trip to the Edge
Researchers take computer chip design to the EDGE

Q & A with Don Winget
Focus on Science talks with Winget about his teaching philosophy

¡Excelente!
Mathematics continues to boost its number of Latino graduates

New Computer Sciences Building in the Works
Dell Foundation contribution to help the department toward their goal for a new building

Faulkner Receives Hall of Honor Award
Former UT president Larry Faulkner presented with a Hall of Honor Award

Estuarine Research Reserve
The Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve was designated in Port Aransas

Intel and Schlumberger Support Undergrad Research

Perrys Contribute to Future of Chemistry

Jastrow Gift to Benefit Growing Human Ecology

Texas Fisheries Boosted by Coastal Conservation of Texas

Paul Barbara Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Computer Scientists Honored for Influential Work

Up-and-Coming Young Faculty

Research Awards

Teaching Awards

In Memoriam

"Mo" the Mosasaur