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Researchers Receive $2M NSF Grant to Break the Laws of Classical Physics

Aug. 23, 2016
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a four-year, $2 million grant to Andrea  Alù of the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin to break the conventional ways in which light and acoustic waves propagate.
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Cockrell School Breaks Ground on Engineering Education and Research Center

Feb. 27, 2015
Yesterday, state legislators and University of Texas leadership joined Cockrell School Dean Sharon L. Wood and hundreds of alumni, friends, corporate supporters and members of the Texas Engineering community to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Engineering Education and Research Center (EERC).