Master’s in Science Programs in Texas
Wondering where to go to pursue a master’s in science? You may be drawn to Texas. In the Lone Star State, you will find a variety of science graduate programs. From Austin to San Antonio, Denton to Houston, there are options for long-time industry professionals as well as those who’ve just earned their undergraduate in a similar discipline.
- Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. Kilby was also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer, for which he had the patents. On what date was he awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics? Subtract 2 from the DAY for A.
- Michael DeBakey was a Lebanese-American vascular and cardiac surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became the chancellor emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston TX., director of the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center (formerly known as Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center), and senior attending surgeon at Houston Methodist Hospital, with a career spanning 75 years. DeBakey's surgical innovations included coronary bypass operations, carotid endarterectomy, artificial hearts and ventricular assist devices. He used Dacron grafts to replace or repair, blood vessels and pioneered surgical repairs of aortic aneurysyms. In what year did he undergo an operation to repair his aorta with a dacron graft? The first digit of this year is B.
- He was the co-developer of the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale with Herbert Saffir, first director of the National Hurricane Research Project (NHRP) from 1955–1959, and a former director (1967–1974) of the National Hurricane Center (NHC). When did Robert Homer Simpson die? The SECOND digit in the DAY is C.
- In the 1950s, typist and Texan native Bette Nesmith Graham needed a way to correct typing errors so that one typo didn't completely destroy a memo or letter. She mixed up tempera paint in her kitchen and used that to fix her mistakes. She began marketing the product, originally called "Mistake Out", out of her home. What came to be known as "liquid paper" was enormously successful. In 1979, she sold her invention to the Gillette corporation for 47 million. She was the mother of musician and producer Michael Nesmith of the Monkees. Her estate was valued at over $50 million at the time of her deat. In what year did she begin marketing “Mistake Out”? Subtract the LAST digit from the SECOND digit for D,
- Charles Rufus Baxter was an American medical doctor. Baxter was one of the doctors who unsuccessfully tried to save U.S. President John F. Kennedy after he was shot in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Born in Paris, Texas, Baxter graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1950. He then attended the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas where he received his medical degree Baxter was the emergency room director at Parkland Memorial Hospital when Kennedy was shot. In what year did he receive his medical degree? The LAST digit in this year is E.
- He was an American pediatrician, author, and the developer of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS). He hosted the cable television program “What Every Baby Knows”, and wrote a syndicated newspaper column. He wrote more than two hundred scholarly papers and twenty-four books. His foremost achievement in pediatrics and child development was to increase pediatricians' awareness of, and attention to, the effect of young children's behavior, activity states, and emotional expressions on the ways their parents react to, and thereby affect them. What is the name of this Texas-born pediatrician? The numerical value of the FIRST digit in his LAST name is F.
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Earn your diploma from the Texas School House by finding the 11 caches in the Texas School House State Forest. But first you'll have to learn the history and facts of the Lone Star State! Your day in the classroom includes a lovely streamside stroll, beaver lodges, and interperative signs provided by the Audobon Society. Find the caches and ride off into the sunset!
All the caches are winter-friendly preforms or bison tubes.
https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/lands_forests_pdf/maptexasschool.pdf