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October 31, 2008
Cultivating a Culture of Generosity
John Jackson’s gift to the University of Texas at Austin, one of the most generous ever to a public university, not only enabled the creation…
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October 30, 2008
Survey Reveals Extent of Hurricane Ike’s Underwater Damage To Galveston
Conducting a rapid response research mission after Hurricane Ike, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin surveyed the inlet between Galveston Bay and the…
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October 29, 2008
New Endowment Honors Women Geologists
When Jeanne Allen Ferrin (B.A., 1948) came to the University of Texas at Austin to study geology in the 1940s, she wasn’t the only woman….
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October 28, 2008
Scientists Probe Antarctic Glaciers for Clues to Past and Future Sea Level
Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial…
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October 24, 2008
Catlos Receives Fulbright Award
Elizabeth Catlos, Associate Professor in the Deptartment of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to…
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October 20, 2008
From Strength to Strength: Department Attracts Top Scientists
The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Geological Sciences is growing dramatically with the addition of 15 new faculty—representing an approximately 80 percent success…
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October 10, 2008
Slip Sliding Away
<< Return to ‘Earth Science Revolution’… The initiative addresses another critical need in Texas, indeed across the U.S.—the retention of minority students. As minority students…
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October 10, 2008
Earth Science Revolution
The state of Texas is in the midst of a major overhaul of high school science education. To graduate on the preferred or distinguished track,…
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October 1, 2008
Warped: The History of a Curious Plate Boundary
When tectonic plates meet on the seafloor, they tend to do one of three things: slink away from each other (spreading), crawl past each other…
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October 31, 2008
Cultivating a Culture of Generosity
John Jackson’s gift to the University of Texas at Austin, one of the most generous ever to a public university, not only enabled the creation…
Read MoreOctober 30, 2008
Survey Reveals Extent of Hurricane Ike’s Underwater Damage To Galveston
Conducting a rapid response research mission after Hurricane Ike, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin surveyed the inlet between Galveston Bay and the…
Read MoreOctober 29, 2008
New Endowment Honors Women Geologists
When Jeanne Allen Ferrin (B.A., 1948) came to the University of Texas at Austin to study geology in the 1940s, she wasn’t the only woman….
Read MoreOctober 28, 2008
Scientists Probe Antarctic Glaciers for Clues to Past and Future Sea Level
Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial…
Read MoreOctober 24, 2008
Catlos Receives Fulbright Award
Elizabeth Catlos, Associate Professor in the Deptartment of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2008
From Strength to Strength: Department Attracts Top Scientists
The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Geological Sciences is growing dramatically with the addition of 15 new faculty—representing an approximately 80 percent success…
Read MoreOctober 10, 2008
Slip Sliding Away
<< Return to ‘Earth Science Revolution’… The initiative addresses another critical need in Texas, indeed across the U.S.—the retention of minority students. As minority students…
Read MoreOctober 10, 2008
Earth Science Revolution
The state of Texas is in the midst of a major overhaul of high school science education. To graduate on the preferred or distinguished track,…
Read MoreOctober 1, 2008
Warped: The History of a Curious Plate Boundary
When tectonic plates meet on the seafloor, they tend to do one of three things: slink away from each other (spreading), crawl past each other…
Read More