Media Releases
May 24, 2010
Alumnus Chuck Williamson excelled in oil industry before retiring
By: Mark Airhart When he enrolled as a doctoral student at The University of Texas at Austin, Charles “Chuck” Williamson (Ph.D. ’78) planned to become…
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May 13, 2010
“Oil in Troubled Waters” Public Forum to Examine the Cause, Consequences and Cost of Spill in the Gulf
The worsening deepwater oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico coast is the topic of a public briefing and discussion by several university experts in…
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May 9, 2010
Cut the Clutter
Interpreting what’s below the surface of Mars is no easy task. There are many potential sources of noise in radar data received by the Shallow…
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May 9, 2010
Separated at Birth
It turns out that the newly discovered deposits of water ice on Mars, called lobate debris aprons, are very similar to rock covered glaciers in…
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May 9, 2010
Hunting Hidden Glaciers: The Search for Mid-Latitude Ice on Mars
Scientists reviewing images of the surface of Mars transmitted to Earth by the Viking orbiters in the 1970s were puzzled by mountains and cliffs surrounded…
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April 15, 2010
World’s Deepest Hydrothermal Vents
On April 6, scientists on a Caribbean expedition discovered the world’s deepest known hydrothermal vents, also known as black smokers. The vents are located in…
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April 8, 2010
A Tradition of Training Astronauts
For more than half his life, Bill Muehlberger has trained astronauts. He started in 1964 when he took a group of Apollo astronauts to the…
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April 8, 2010
Fly Me to the Moon
Mark Helper looked out the windshield of his pressurized lunar rover at a gray otherworldly landscape that stretched in every direction as far as he…
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March 4, 2010
Experts Reaffirm Asteroid Impact Caused Mass Extinction
Responding to challenges to the hypothesis that an asteroid impact caused a mass extinction on Earth 65 million years ago, a panel of 41 scientists…
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May 24, 2010
Alumnus Chuck Williamson excelled in oil industry before retiring
By: Mark Airhart When he enrolled as a doctoral student at The University of Texas at Austin, Charles “Chuck” Williamson (Ph.D. ’78) planned to become…
Read MoreMay 13, 2010
“Oil in Troubled Waters” Public Forum to Examine the Cause, Consequences and Cost of Spill in the Gulf
The worsening deepwater oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico coast is the topic of a public briefing and discussion by several university experts in…
Read MoreMay 9, 2010
Cut the Clutter
Interpreting what’s below the surface of Mars is no easy task. There are many potential sources of noise in radar data received by the Shallow…
Read MoreMay 9, 2010
Separated at Birth
It turns out that the newly discovered deposits of water ice on Mars, called lobate debris aprons, are very similar to rock covered glaciers in…
Read MoreMay 9, 2010
Hunting Hidden Glaciers: The Search for Mid-Latitude Ice on Mars
Scientists reviewing images of the surface of Mars transmitted to Earth by the Viking orbiters in the 1970s were puzzled by mountains and cliffs surrounded…
Read MoreApril 15, 2010
World’s Deepest Hydrothermal Vents
On April 6, scientists on a Caribbean expedition discovered the world’s deepest known hydrothermal vents, also known as black smokers. The vents are located in…
Read MoreApril 8, 2010
A Tradition of Training Astronauts
For more than half his life, Bill Muehlberger has trained astronauts. He started in 1964 when he took a group of Apollo astronauts to the…
Read MoreApril 8, 2010
Fly Me to the Moon
Mark Helper looked out the windshield of his pressurized lunar rover at a gray otherworldly landscape that stretched in every direction as far as he…
Read MoreMarch 4, 2010
Experts Reaffirm Asteroid Impact Caused Mass Extinction
Responding to challenges to the hypothesis that an asteroid impact caused a mass extinction on Earth 65 million years ago, a panel of 41 scientists…
Read More