ALT A current faculty member in UT Austin’s department of chemistry, Livia Eberlin leads research in the use of mass spectrometry to detect cancerous tissue. This Longhorn's invention, the MasSpec Pen, holds great promise for improving the effectiveness of surgery performed on cancer patients by drastically reducing the time it takes to detect cancerous tissue and improving the accuracy of detection.
ALT Vivienne Malone-Mayes, the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from The University of Texas at Austin and the fifth to do so nationwide, studied functional analysis and served on the faculty of Baylor University. This Longhorn was elected Director-at-large for Texas’ section of the Mathematical Association of America and honored as Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year by Baylor students.
ALT Dr. Lisa Ng’s research group has been credited for developing reliable and sensitive diagnostic kits to detect the Sars-CoV and Avian Influenza H5N1 viruses during the 2003 SARS crisis. Dr. Ng is an ASEAN Young Scientist and Technologist Award recipient, and in 2008 was the first Singaporean and woman scientist to be awarded it.
ALT Former UT Austin physicist/astronomer Cécile DeWitt-Morette established L’École de Physique des Houches, revitalizing physics in post-WWII Europe & influencing many Nobel Laureates. A French Legion of Honor officer & Marcel Grossman Award recipient, DeWitt-Morette, along with husband Bryce DeWitt, led Longhorn researchers in the 1970s on a successful expedition to confirm aspects of Einstein’s theory of relativity.
