News Briefs
UTSA researchers, faculty and alumni are making their work known nationwide, winning a grant to study chlamydia, garnering a prize for innovations in energy conservation, launching an Internet security incubator and making other advances in science.

Troyer's song
Todd Troyer, assistant professor of biology, has birdsongs on his mind. Troyer has a nest of nearly 50 finches whose songs he studies in the hope that they shed light on how the neurons that control learned behaviors work in human brains. Troyer says theare are similarities between bird and human brains both in speech development and in neurological diseases.

Space cadets
Five physics doctoral students specializing in aspects of outer space tell their stories. Though different in background and interests, the five were all drawn to UTSA and the school’s joint space physics Ph.D. program with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI).

Au naturel
CPS Energy had a problem at its Calaveras Lake Power Plant in San Antonio. Thick vegetation that choked off water flow and caused flooding. Environmental concerns. Ecosystems to be maintained. Enter Gwen Young, environmental scientist and UTSA grad.