This summer, an International Relations and Global Studies senior was awarded the experience of a lifetime when her student research team received the UT President’s Award for Global Learning. Christina Cho and a team of three other undergraduates traveled to Accra, Ghana, for 10 weeks to research colorism and how to mitigate its effect on […]
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UT Austin Student Developing App That Can Help Diagnose Skin Cancer
A psychology and biology student at The University of Texas at Austin is using the accessibility provided by the web and smartphones to help people who could be in medical need. Rachel Graubard, a Liberal Arts Honors (LAH) senior from Houston, Texas, has been working on an app that can diagnose and monitor skin cancer since […]
Plan II Student’s Research Could Change How Diseases Are Diagnosed
A UT Austin undergraduate’s research could help change the way doctors diagnose diseases with known protein biomarkers like multiple sclerosis and leukemia. Courtney Koepke, a Plan II and biomedical engineering junior, is an undergraduate research assistant at UT Austin’s Laboratory of Biomaterials, Drug Delivery and Bionanotechnology. “As a freshman entering college, I didn’t know much […]
Student-Run Economics Journal Spotlights Undergrad Research
Undergraduate research work in economics, mathematics, international relations, finance and public policy is being recognized through a research journal founded by students at The University of Texas at Austin. The Developing Economist‘s inaugural issue was published in the spring, but the process of creating it began much earlier. Members of UT Austin chapter of Omicron […]
Psychology Student Finds Inspiration in Her Past While Looking to the Future
One UT Austin student found her way to psychology through familial influence, overlapping interests and an acute sense of empathy. For Patty Sanchez, a senior from Brownsville, Texas, the road to psychology began at a young age. In sixth grade, she was selected to be a peer mediator for her fellow classmates, someone who administrators […]
In Brief: Fall 2010
The Play’s the Thing To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the English Department’s Shakespeare at Winedale program, alumni reunited this summer and performed scenes from several of the Bard’s plays. Among them was Kathryn Blackbird, class of 1984 and 1986. She used a mirror in the century-old hay barn near the idyllic country town of […]
Research Briefs: Fall 2008
Why Pregnant Women Waddle The human spine evolved differently in males and females in order to alleviate back pressure from the weight of carrying a baby, according to anthropologist Liza Shapiro whose findings were first documented in Nature. The researcher believes the adaptation first appeared at least two million years ago, in the early human […]