Bob and Cathy O’Rear

We are grateful for the generous contributions to the DIY Stream by Bob and Cathy O’Rear!

Alumnus Helped Usher in Age of Personal Computing and Guide Lunar Astronauts Home

February 18, 2016September 26, 2018

We are grateful to the Texas Memorial Museum for sponsoring 2 summer fellowships under the Joseph Jones Life on Waller Creek endowment. Additionally, TMM has sponsored numerous undergraduate research awards at the Undergraduate Research Forum.

February 18, 2016September 26, 2018

Ellington Lab

The success of the DIY Diagnostics stream research is in no small part due to the continuous support of the Ellington Lab.

February 16, 2016September 26, 2018

Bob and Cathy O’Rear

The DIY Diagnostics FRI stream is made possible thanks to the continuous financial support of Bob and Cathy O’Rear.

January 28, 2016September 26, 2018

DIY funded by Gates GCE Grant for Mosquito Diagnostics

Undergraduate researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are creating diagnostics to test mosquitos for blood-borne pathogens. These diagnostics will combine a simple mosquito-processing device by Paratus Diagnostics with molecular technology to transduce the presence/absence of pathogens into a chemical signal for reading on a common pregnancy test strip.

Freshman Researchers Receive Grand Challenges Explorations Grant

February 19, 2015January 27, 2023

Contributors

The DIY Diagnostics Stream is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Bob and Cathy O’Rear.

DIY is supported by the Freshman Research Initiative and the University of Texas at Austin.