Archive News Articles - November 2007

U.S. News ranks 3 Dallas public schools in top 100
Dallas Morning News - 11/30/07
U.S. News & World Report, known for its annual ranking of colleges and universities, has now rated the nation's top public high schools. No. 14: The School for the Talented and Gifted. No. 18: The School for Science and Engineering, more commonly known as the Science and Engineering Magnet. "It's an honor to be ranked in the top 100, let alone to be No. 14," said TAG principal Mike Satarino. "Those are some amazing schools we're ranked around." No other North Texas schools cracked the top 25, though Highland Park High School came in at No. 33. View full article.

Dream of local medical school inches closer to reality
Brownsville Herald - 11/29/07
The dream of building a medical school in the Rio Grande Valley is edging closer to reality, officials said Thursday as they dedicated a $25 million clinical research facility and veterans’ clinic.  Officials from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, along with legislators and state and local leaders, heralded the completion of the Regional Academic Health Center’s Academic and Clinical Research Building, which is adjacent to the RAHC’s medical-education building in Harlingen.  The 80,000-square-foot facility consists of exam rooms, a laboratory and offices for clinical researchers and statisticians.  In addition, 34,000 square feet of the facility is leased to South Texas Veterans Health Care System for an outpatient clinic, which is slated to be expanded to 158,000 square feet as funding becomes available. View full article.

Mechanical Engineer Aims To Improve Detection Of Nuclear Smuggling Activity
Calibre Macro World  11/29/07
AMA professor at The University of Texas at Austin has received $1.9 million to expand a computer model that is already helping guide national decisions about placement of devices to detect...View full article.

Tree of life for flowering plants reveals relationships among major groups
Checkbiotech   11/29/07
The scientists, publishing two papers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week online, found that the two largest groups of flowering plants, monocots (grasses and their...View full article.

UT System selects vendor to help member schools raise research fundingSan Antonio Business Journal 11/28/07 The University of Texas System has entered into an agreement with grant proposal software developer Cayuse Inc. that will allow every school within the system to adopt the company's technology. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio worked with UT's System Office of System-wide Information Services in negotiating the agreement with Cayuse. The entire UT System will be able to use the company's Cayuse424, which is an automated system for proposal development. The system is a set of tools designed to assist grant proposal writers alleviate some of the work that goes into bidding for federal research projects. The nine universities and six health institutions in the UT System already generate more than $1.8 billion in annual research funding. Through Cayuse's technology, the UT System is working to enhance and increase its research funding further. View full article.

UTSA tapped for Army contract to develop biomed technologies
San Antonio Business Journal - 11/26/07
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of Engineering has been awarded a $2 million grant to develop bone-regeneration technologies for wounded soldiers. The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and the Institute for Surgical Research awarded the grant, the largest the College of Engineering has ever received. A team of biomedical engineering researchers led by Joo Ong and C. Mauli Agrawal will use it in support of the development of a multifunctional implant to assist in the regeneration of bone in large defects caused by trauma. UTSA researchers say both soldiers wounded in combat and civilians will benefit from advancements in bone-regeneration technology developed as a result of the grant. View full article.

Ending the Intellectual Property Frenzy
Inside Higher Ed - 11/28/07
New president of Rochester Institute of Technology proposes alternate way for academe to support business and the economy — and it involves admitting that your institution won’t have a big windfall.
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