Imagine life on the shores of the San Antonio River 9,000 to 10,500 years ago. Hard to do? UTSA archaeologists got a glimpse into that life after unearthing more than 500 artifacts while assisting in the San Antonio River Improvement Project in South San Antonio. They found projectile points and woodworking tools thought to be for making canoes all those thousands of years ago.
Closer to downtown
San Antonio, archaeologists
discovered the trash
of one of Bexar County's
first surveyors. There
were bottles and ceramic
fragments, along with
meat bones and oyster
shells, thought to be from
the homestead of John
James, who lived along
North Presa Street in the
mid-1800s.
The UTSA South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases will receive $4.6 million over the next five years from the U.S. Department of Defense Army Research Office to establish a Center of Excellence in Infection Genomics. The grant will support microbiology research, teaching and outreach activities aligned with Army priorities. Infection genomics is the scientific discipline in which biologists characterize functional properties of the entire genome of infectious organisms.
President Ricardo Romo and UT System Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa were appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. The commission is charged with expanding educational opportunities, improving education outcomes and delivering a complete and competitive education for all Hispanics.
The College of Business has a new bachelor of business administration degree in sport, event and tourism management. Coursework includes the study of tourism, sport and event management, sport marketing, economics of tourism and leisure, tourism law and destination marketing.
Hate lugging around that huge science textbook? UTSA Libraries are now lending eReaders to students, faculty and staff who want to read pre-loaded popular and scholarly science and engineering content.
UTSA biomedical researchers created a scaffold that can be used to mend or regrow bone lost because of trauma or disease. If approved by the FDA, it could be on the market and used by patients by the end of 2012.
Beginning in fall 2013, students can get their bachelor of science degree in biology and their doctor of medicine degree in seven years. It's through a pilot program offered by UTSA and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The program's first students are expected to graduate with their M.D.s in 2020.
Seventy-five boxes of
papers related to Texas
Biomed, Southwest
Research Institute, Mind
Science Foundation
and other partnerships
and corporations are
available to researchers
and scholars at the
UTSA Libraries Special
Collections.
The papers belonged
to Thomas Baker Slick
Jr., founder of the Texas
Biomedical Research
Institute and span from
1938 until his death
in 1962. They were
donated to the university
by his family in August.