Huban Gowadia, director of Domestic Nuclear Detection Office in the US Department of Homeland Security, spoke to faculty and students at UT’s Institute for Nuclear Security, a key university partner of the office. UT is actively engaged in two of the office’s grant programs which include the Academic Research Initiative and National Nuclear Forensics Expertise
Discover magazine featured the research of Psychology Professor Gordon Burghardt and his colleagues Vladimir Dinets, a psychology research assistant professor, and James Murphy of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, DC. They are the first to document play with objects in a cichlid fish species. There are hundreds of species of cichlid, including tilapia,
Endemic species are often endangered, and a UT study finds that saving them is more important to biodiversity than previously thought.