Media Releases
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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September 15, 2008
Marine Geology & Geophysics Field Course Debuts
In May, the Jackson School debuted the new Marine Geology & Geophysics (MG&G) Field Course, designed to provide hands-on instruction for graduate and upper-level undergraduate…
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September 15, 2008
Researchers Discover Unexpected Properties of Materials in Lowermost Mantle
Materials deep inside Earth have unexpected atomic properties that might force earth scientists to revise their models of Earth’s internal processes, a team of researchers…
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August 18, 2008
The Anti-Greenhouse Gas? Climate Scientist Evaluates Geoengineering Solution to Climate Change
Alan Robock, a professor of environmental science at Rutgers University, sat in a scientific meeting listening to his colleagues explain how global warming might be…
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August 8, 2008
Researcher Details Climate Consequences of “Regional” Nuclear War
You’ve probably heard the term nuclear winter. In the early 1980s, climate scientists using simple computer models discovered that a large scale nuclear war between…
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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…
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 MoreSeptember 15, 2008
Marine Geology & Geophysics Field Course Debuts
In May, the Jackson School debuted the new Marine Geology & Geophysics (MG&G) Field Course, designed to provide hands-on instruction for graduate and upper-level undergraduate…
Read MoreSeptember 15, 2008
Researchers Discover Unexpected Properties of Materials in Lowermost Mantle
Materials deep inside Earth have unexpected atomic properties that might force earth scientists to revise their models of Earth’s internal processes, a team of researchers…
Read MoreAugust 18, 2008
The Anti-Greenhouse Gas? Climate Scientist Evaluates Geoengineering Solution to Climate Change
Alan Robock, a professor of environmental science at Rutgers University, sat in a scientific meeting listening to his colleagues explain how global warming might be…
Read MoreAugust 8, 2008
Researcher Details Climate Consequences of “Regional” Nuclear War
You’ve probably heard the term nuclear winter. In the early 1980s, climate scientists using simple computer models discovered that a large scale nuclear war between…
Read More