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Jeanne H. Freeland-Graves is an American nutritionist, currently the Bess Heflin Centennial Professor at University of Texas at Austin. [1] [2] [3] In 2007 she was awarded the Charles E. Ragus Award of the American Nutrition Association. [4]
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Jeanne H. Freeland-Graves is an American nutritionist, currently the Bess Heflin Centennial Professor at University of Texas at Austin. [1] [2] [3] In 2007 she was awarded the Charles E. Ragus Award of the American Nutrition Association. [4]
The Cockrell School of Engineering is one of the eighteen colleges within the University of Texas at Austin. It has more than 8,000 students enrolled in eleven undergraduate and thirteen graduate programs. The college is ranked 10th in the world according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, 11th nationally for undergraduate programs and 7th nationally for graduate programs by U.S. News & World Report. Six of the nine undergraduate programs and seven of the thirteen graduate programs are ranked in the top ten nationally. Annual research expenditures are over $267 million and the school has the fourth-largest number of faculty in the National Academy of Engineering.
Charles Tilford McCormick was an American university professor.
Adam Holzman is a classical guitarist. He is Professor of Guitar at the University of Texas at Austin and is the Parker C. Fielder Regents Professor in Music. Formerly he was associate professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. In 1989 he joined the faculty and the University of Texas at Austin Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music where he founded its classical guitar studio. In 1990 he founded the Austin Guitar Society. In 2017, he founded The Brevard Music Center Summer Festival Guitar Program.
The College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin offers 10 Bachelor of Arts majors, 42 Bachelor of Science majors, and 20 graduate programs to more than 11,000 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students. The college employs over 370 faculty. Many of the programs are consistently ranked in the top ten nationally, according to U.S. News & World Report (2019), including: Analytical Chemistry (4th), Applied Math (9th), Artificial Intelligence (8th), Computer Science (10th), Computing Systems (8th), Computing Theory (7th), Cosmology/Relativity/Gravity (10th), Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (6th), Mathematics Analysis (7th), Plasma Physics (3rd), Programming Language (8th), and Topology (8th). It was established in 1883.
The Department of Nutrition is one of six departments at the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University. While nutrition was always a part of the curriculum at the university, the department was initiated when the School of Public Health began in 1963.
Ruth Buskirk is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She has served on the university's faculty for over twenty five years and is a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Biology. She holds the Worthington Endowed Professorship for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in Plan II.
Harriet Dinerstein is an American astronomer. The American Astronomical Society honored her work by awarding her the Annie J. Cannon Prize in 1985. She also received the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in 1989. Dinerstein received her Bachelor of Science degree from Yale University in 1975 and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1980. She currently is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin.
Stephen D. Hursting is an American scientist and current professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the former Margaret McKean Love Chair in Nutrition, Cellular, and Molecular Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Keshav K Pingali is an American computer scientist, currently the W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing at the University of Texas at Austin, and also a published author. He previously also held the India Chair of Computer Science at Cornell University and also the N. Rama Rao Professorship at Indian Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 2020, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Academia Europeana.
Charles Buddie Mullins was an American chemical engineer, currently the Matthew Van Winkle Regents Professor and Z. D. Bonner Professor at University of Texas at Austin.
John Kormendy, is an American astronomer, currently the Curtis T. Vaughn, Jr. Centennial Chair at University of Texas at Austin. He is known for the Kormendy relation found in the surface brightness profiles for elliptic galaxies.
Lizy Kurian John is an Indian American electrical engineer, who is currently the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in computer engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 1993. She joined The University of Texas Austin faculty in 1996. Her research is in the areas of computer architecture, multicore processors, memory systems, performance evaluation and benchmarking, workload characterization, and reconfigurable computing.
Taft E. Armandroff is an American astronomer, currently the Frank and Susan Bash Endowed Chair for the Director of the McDonald Observatory, at University of Texas at Austin.
Richard M. Isackes is an American theater scholar, currently the Joanne Sharp Crosby Regents Chair in Design and Technology at University of Texas at Austin.
Molly S. Bray is an American geneticist, currently the Susan T. Jastrow Human Ecology Chair for Excellence in Nutritional Sciences at University of Texas at Austin. Bray is a nationally recognized expert and a featured speaker on the genetics of obesity, energy balance, and exercise response. She is a Professor and chair in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, with a master's degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of Houston and a PhD in Human and Molecular Genetics from the UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She also served as the former Director of the Heflin Center for Genomic Science Genomics Core Laboratory at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Children's Nutrition Research Center/Baylor College of Medicine Genetics Core Laboratory. Bray's research focuses on the relationship between energy balance and lifestyle factors such as exercise, nutrition, and circadian patterns of behavior. Her findings related to how the timing and quality of energy intake affect weight gain and metabolic health have been featured on national and international news programs and a myriad of websites and popular news media. Bray also currently leads one of the largest genetic studies of exercise adherence established to date, the Training Interventions and Genetics of Exercise Response (TIGER) study, with a total cohort of more than 3,700 individuals. Bray's research has included investigations of aerobic fitness and resting and exercise energy expenditure in children and adolescents, circadian studies of feeding and metabolic response, and clinical studies of morbidly obese adolescents undergoing bariatric surgery. Bray has published extensively in a wide range of peer-reviewed journals and her work has been featured in national and international scientific meetings.
Zengjian Jeffrey Chen is a plant biologist and molecular geneticist, currently the D. J. Sibley Centennial Professor of Plant Molecular Genetics at University of Texas at Austin. Chen received his B.S. at Zhejiang Agricultural University, M.S. at Nanjing Agricultural University, and Ph.D. in Genetics at Texas A&M University. Following a postdoctoral position at University of Minnesota and as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, he joined the faculty at Texas A&M in 1999, where he was promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure. In 2005, he moved to The University of Texas at Austin and became a full professor in 2008 in the lllDepartments of lllMolecular lllBiosciences and lllIntegrative lllBiology, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology.
Bethany Lee Albertson is an American Political psychologist. She is an Associate professor of political science at the University of Texas at Austin. Her co-authored book Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World received the Robert E. Lane Award for being the best book in political psychology published in 2015.
Christine E. Schmidt is an American biomedical engineer. As a professor at the University of Florida, Schmidt was inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame for her creation of the Avance Nerve Graft which has "improved the lives of numerous patients suffering from peripheral nerve damage."
Jeffrey K. Tulis is an American political scientist known for work that conjoins the fields of American politics, political theory, and public law.
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