Texas Crawdads

Neuroethologist Ron Hoy on College, Careers, and Crawdads

In April 2006, at the Symposium for Young Neuroscientists & Professors of the Southeast (SYNAPSE), I had the honor of sitting down for breakfast with Dr. Ron Hoy, the David and Dorothy Merksamer Professor of Biology at Cornell University. In addition to receiving grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation, Dr. Hoy has been supported by the National I...

Tracking Salinity Sources to Texas Streams: Examples from West Texas and the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain

Upper Colorado River (West Texas) and Petronila Creek (Texas Coastal Plain) salinities exceed state regulatory standards. For a recent study, airborne conductivity surveys located points of saline influx. Hydrochemical analyses defined salinity trends and potential sources. Both streams comprise Na-Cl hydrochemical facies and are near hydrocarbon production operations. Upper Colorado River sali...

Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum Celebrates Texas Country Music

Since it opened in April 2001, the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum has hosted a variety of exhibits and educational events designed to promote the understanding of the Lone Star State's unique and complex history. The impressive four-story museum, located at the corner of Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard in Austin, includes 34,000 square feet of exhibit space, along...

Never Beans! How Texas Chili Makes Texas Real

East Texas State University

This article presents a summary of past and current artificial intelligence research within the Computer Science Department at East Texas State University (ETSU). The Computer Science Department at ETSU offers a master of science degree with an emphasis in artificial intelligence. AI research, both past and present, has been funded by a grant from E-Systems, Greenville Division AI research proj...