geosciences

Shell Oil Company has contributed $313,500 to support academic programs at The University of Texas at Austin.

The grants benefit undergraduates and graduate students in the university's McCombs School of Business, Cockrell School of Engineering and Jackson School of Geosciences.

A large component of the donation is designated for the GeoFORCE Texas Program, which rewards outstanding [...]

Terry Quinn, associate director of the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named director of the institute.

Quinn was interim director during the national search for a director this past year. The institute, one of two research units within the university's Jackson School of Geosciences, has a nearly 40-year history [...]

ConocoPhillips has contributed $1 million to support academic programs at The University of Texas at Austin. The grant benefits undergraduates and graduate students in the university's McCombs School of Business, Cockrell School of Engineering, Jackson School of Geosciences and College of Natural Sciences.

The largest component of the donation is $275,000 for the SPIRIT Scholars program. [...]

ExxonMobil has given $987,542 to The University of Texas at Austin as a 3-to-1 match of gifts made by the company's employees and retirees in the past year.

A majority of the donation benefits programs in business, engineering and geosciences, reflecting the primary academic background of ExxonMobil's personnel, but funds also were directed to other areas [...]

Chevron has contributed $1 million to the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences.

The gift will support the bureau's core research facilities, where scientists study materials in the nation's largest publicly available storehouse of geological cuttings and cores.

The gift comes in addition to $1.2 million Chevron [...]

Shell Oil Company has contributed $225,500 to support academic programs at The University of Texas at Austin.

The grant benefits undergraduates and graduate students in the university's McCombs School of Business, Cockrell School of Engineering, Jackson School of Geosciences and College of Natural Sciences.

One of the largest components of the donation is a $40,000 contribution [...]

Chevron has contributed $1,149,600 in grants to support lab renovations, student scholarships and academic programs at The University of Texas at Austin, bringing the company's total university giving to more than $37 million.

The contribution, representing four separate gifts from the company in 2008, targets programs serving students in the university's Jackson School of Geosciences, Cockrell [...]

ExxonMobil has given $929,091 to The University of Texas at Austin as a three-to-one match of gifts made by the company's employees and retirees in the past year.

A majority of the donation benefits programs in business, engineering and geosciences, reflecting the primary academic background of ExxonMobil's personnel.

The company matches higher education gifts three-to-one for [...]

On the one year anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in the Solomon Islands that killed 52 people and displaced more than 6,000, scientists are revising their understanding of the potential for similar giant earthquakes in other parts of the globe.

Geoscientists from The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences and their [...]