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In recognition of his discoveries regarding the formation of black holes and galaxies, astronomer Karl Gebhardt will receive the 2012 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Science from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST).

Event: The Austin Forum on Science, Technology & Society will host “The Predictive Brain: How Past Memories Influence Future Decisions” presented by Alison Preston, assistant professor, Department of Psychology and Section of Neurobiology, The University of Texas at Austin

When: 5:45 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 10.

This event is free and open to the public.

Event: The Austin Forum on Science, Technology & Society will host: "How Our Words Reflect Who We Are" presented by James W.

Pennebaker, Liberal Arts Foundation Centennial Professor, Department Chair of the Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin.

When: 5:45 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 6.

This event is free and open to the public.

Where: AT&T Conference Center Amphitheater (Room 204), 1900 University Ave.

University of Texas at Austin Assistant Professor Sally Dodson-Robinson has received a Faculty Early Career Development award of $363,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

As the new director of the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation (SSC) at The University of Texas at Austin, Lauren Ancel Meyers hopes to recruit top faculty and continue a large string of initiatives geared toward students.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin will build and support a world-class supercomputer with comprehensive computing and visualization capabilities as part of a National Science Foundation grant.

EVENT: News conference to announce National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded grant for The University of Texas at Austin

WHEN: 1:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 22.

Representatives of the media invited.

Faculty at The University of Texas at Austin have been awarded a nearly $3 million competitive grant from the National Science Foundation to study materials that are vital to the development of a broad range of technologies, including everything from cell phones to large-scale energy storage.

The National Science Foundation is seeking applications for a grant program that will push research into practical applications through commercialization.

Through the Innovation Corps program, the organization will award $50,000 in research grants to 100 universities and help them establish partnerships with private companies to commercialize their developments.

The foundation has not released its list of applicants, but it is accepting project proposals and will announce grant winners Sept. 30.

UT is participating in a new nationwide project to connect research scientists with the supercomputers and other digital resources that make much of their work possible.