Media Releases
April 28, 2011
Traces in Time
When Peter Flaig returned home from Antarctica, he found it pretty amusing that the city of Austin was shut down by an inch of snow,…
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April 22, 2011
Scientists Explore Connections Between Climate, Land Use and Dead Zones
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues will use a three-year, $1.5 million grant from NASA to develop computer models to study…
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April 14, 2011
Texas Team Wins 2011 Imperial Barrel Award Competition
A team of geoscience students from The University of Texas at Austin beat finalists from 11 global regions to win the Imperial Barrel Award, the…
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April 4, 2011
Study Will Assess Potential for Developing Country’s Fastest Growing Energy Resource
With a $1.5 million grant from the Sloan Foundation, a team of energy scientists, engineers and economists at The University of Texas at Austin will…
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April 1, 2011
Six Assistant Professors Win CAREER Awards from National Science Foundation
Six assistant professors at The University of Texas at Austin received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards totaling nearly $3 million from the National Science…
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March 30, 2011
UT Austin Takes 1st Place at Imperial Barrel Award Regional Competition
A team of geoscience students from the University of Texas at Austin has taken first prize in a regional round of the Imperial Barrel Award,…
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March 26, 2011
Teacher at Sea
Julie Pollard, a 7th and 8th grade science teacher from Watauga, Texas used a video-enabled laptop to take students on virtual tours of the ship….
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March 26, 2011
Down to the Core: Craig Fulthorpe Co-Leads Expedition to Canterbury Basin
Craig Fulthorpe was a grad student when his advisor walked into his office and asked if he would like to be part of the first…
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March 26, 2011
Ocean Drilling and the Institute for Geophysics
The history of the Institute for Geophysics is to a large extent the history of the big three scientific ocean drilling programs. Multinational collaborations focused…
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March 25, 2011
McAndrews Takes 2nd Place at the SPE HSSE Conference Student Paper Competition
Energy and Earth Resources (EER) graduate student Kristine McAndrews placed second in the student paper competition at the SPE Americas E&P Health, Safety, Security, &…
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April 28, 2011
Traces in Time
When Peter Flaig returned home from Antarctica, he found it pretty amusing that the city of Austin was shut down by an inch of snow,…
Read MoreApril 22, 2011
Scientists Explore Connections Between Climate, Land Use and Dead Zones
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues will use a three-year, $1.5 million grant from NASA to develop computer models to study…
Read MoreApril 14, 2011
Texas Team Wins 2011 Imperial Barrel Award Competition
A team of geoscience students from The University of Texas at Austin beat finalists from 11 global regions to win the Imperial Barrel Award, the…
Read MoreApril 4, 2011
Study Will Assess Potential for Developing Country’s Fastest Growing Energy Resource
With a $1.5 million grant from the Sloan Foundation, a team of energy scientists, engineers and economists at The University of Texas at Austin will…
Read MoreApril 1, 2011
Six Assistant Professors Win CAREER Awards from National Science Foundation
Six assistant professors at The University of Texas at Austin received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards totaling nearly $3 million from the National Science…
Read MoreMarch 30, 2011
UT Austin Takes 1st Place at Imperial Barrel Award Regional Competition
A team of geoscience students from the University of Texas at Austin has taken first prize in a regional round of the Imperial Barrel Award,…
Read MoreMarch 26, 2011
Teacher at Sea
Julie Pollard, a 7th and 8th grade science teacher from Watauga, Texas used a video-enabled laptop to take students on virtual tours of the ship….
Read MoreMarch 26, 2011
Down to the Core: Craig Fulthorpe Co-Leads Expedition to Canterbury Basin
Craig Fulthorpe was a grad student when his advisor walked into his office and asked if he would like to be part of the first…
Read MoreMarch 26, 2011
Ocean Drilling and the Institute for Geophysics
The history of the Institute for Geophysics is to a large extent the history of the big three scientific ocean drilling programs. Multinational collaborations focused…
Read MoreMarch 25, 2011
McAndrews Takes 2nd Place at the SPE HSSE Conference Student Paper Competition
Energy and Earth Resources (EER) graduate student Kristine McAndrews placed second in the student paper competition at the SPE Americas E&P Health, Safety, Security, &…
Read More