Engineers identifying earliest signs of pending heart attacks
August 28, 2006
Biomedical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have used miniature particles to mark body cells whose accumulation within arteries could indicate a pending heart attack.
HENAAC awards scholarships to five engineering students
August 25, 2006
Five University of Texas at Austin engineering students will receive scholarships this year ranging from $2,500 to $5,000 from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation.
Biomedical engineer receives $1.6 million to research tailored mouse stem cells, DNA-based vaccines
August 21, 2006
Krishnendu Roy, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has received $1.6 million through two National Institutes of Health grants to improve the body’s ability to attack foreign invaders.
Two engineering graduate students receive Intel and IBM fellowships
August 21, 2006
Chemical engineering graduate student Dayne Fanfair has been named an Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellow and computer engineering graduate student Ajay Joshi has been named an IBM Ph.D. Fellow.
College of Engineering institute ranked among top Austin computer training firms
August 21, 2006
The Software Quality Institute at the University of Texas at Austin was recently ranked as the 11th top computer training firm by the Austin Business Journal.
High school students learn about biomedical engineering research
August 15, 2006
This summer, Katrina Jazayeri and Kapil Saxena, high school students from Anderson High School in Austin, have been learning about biomedical engineering research in the lab of Dr. Krishnendu Roy, assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin.
Schweitzer Engineering donates power engineering equipment for student labs
August 11, 2006
Schweitzer Engineering Labs, Inc. recently donated more than $200,000 worth of equipment to the College of Engineering’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin.
Civil engineers' ConcreteWorks computer programs named top innovation
August 11, 2006
A project led by Civil Engineering Associate Professor Kevin Folliard of the Concrete Durability Center was recently named one of six Top Research Innovations and Findings for 2005 by the Texas Department of Transportation.
Chemical and Engineering News highlights student's paper on industrial waste remediation
August 11, 2006
A paper by chemical engineering Ph.D. student Jinlong Gong was recently highlighted in the American Chemical Society’s weekly magazine Chemical and Engineering News.
Two biomedical engineering professors appointed to four editorial boards
August 11, 2006
Dr. Lisa Brannon-Peppas was recently appointed to the editorial boards of "Expert Opinion in Drug Delivery" and "Nanomedicine." Dr. Christine Schmidt was appointed to the "Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition." Brannon-Peppas and Schmidt, both biomedical engineering professors, have been appointed to the editorial board of the "International Journal of Nanomedicine."
Dr. Jianli Chen receives presidential award
August 11, 2006
Dr. Jianli Chen, a research scientist at the Center for Space Research at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Greenland's ice loss accelerating rapidly, gravity-measuring satellites reveal
August 10, 2006
A new analysis of data from twin satellites has revealed that the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet has increased dramatically in the past few years, with much of the loss occurring primarily along one shoreline potentially affecting weather in Western Europe.
Leadership change in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
August 7, 2006
Larry Lake, a faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin since 1978, has assumed the position of interim chairman of the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering.
