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UT System: BFL will stay on Lady Bird Lake
University of Texas System Board of Regents unanimously agreed not to move Brackenridge Field Lab from a 350-acre tract under consideration for commercial and residential development.
UT scientists weed out switch grass in search for biofuel
In experiments, they hope to learn which varieties will fare best in a changing climate.
Caught in the Act: Population of Butterflies Appears to Be Splitting Into Two Species
Breaking up may actually not be hard to do, say scientists who've found a population of tropical butterflies that may be on its way to a split into two distinct species.
Cool Class: Field Ecology
In some classes, students are assigned readings from a big textbook; others are assigned computer problems or chemistry formulas.
Cool Class: Bug Boot Camp
Katy Kenny decided to take John Abbott’s Field Entomology class in the summer of 2007 for two reasons.
Fire ant-attacking fly spreading rapidly in Texas
Parasitic flies introduced to control red imported fire ants have spread over four million acres in central and southeast Texas since the flies’ introduction in 1999, researchers at The Unive
Fire ant lab celebrates 20 years of research
The red imported fire ant laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin Brackenridge Field Lab (BFL) is celebrating 20 years of research this mon
Twenty years of figuring-out fire ants
When the wave of red imported fire ants rolled into Austin in the early 1980s, Larry Gilbert knew in no time flat.