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Three faculty members in the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin have been inducted as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing, one of the highest honors in nursing.

Dr.

Mary Lou Adams, Dr. Marilyn Pattillo and Dr. Deborah Volker were among 143 new fellows from around the world.

The 2011 class was inducted Oct. 15 in Washington, D.C., at the academy's annual meeting.

Speech-language researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help Central Texas first graders from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds overcome language impairments.

Communication Sciences and Disorders Associate Professor Lisa Bedore and Professor Elizabeth Peña will use the grant to [...]

The Imaging Research Center (IRC) at The University of Texas at Austin will be able to move into the Norman Hackerman Building with $3.8 million in American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funds from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health.

The IRC is several miles away at the [...]

Dr. Sharon Brown, associate dean for research and professor of nursing at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a four-year, $1.3 million National Institutes of Health grant to identify ways to achieve better glycemic control in persons with type 2 diabetes.

Brown is trying to find out why so few people with diabetes achieve [...]

The National Institutes of Health says it deems stem cell lines eligible for government research dollars if scientists can prove they meet the spirit of the new ethics standards.

An NIH registry will list all that qualify. The rules settle the question of whether new ethics requirements would disqualify many of the stem cells created over the past decade.

Dr. Tracie Harrison, assistant professor of nursing at The University of Texas at Austin, has received $1.3 million from the National Institutes of Health for a study comparing experiences of women with disabilities.

Harrison wants to look at white and Hispanic women ages 55-75 to compare how women developed mobility impairment and how it impacts their [...]

A biomedical engineering assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute grant to conduct nanoparticle cancer research.

Grant recipient James Tunnell says the five-year project will include collaboration with other researchers from the university, M.D.

Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the University [...]

Dr. Maria Croyle, associate professor of pharmaceutics at The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, has received $2.6 million to develop a vaccine against Ebola virus infection.

With grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Research and Technology Initiative, Croyle will lead an international research team to study the immune responses [...]