Academics

The South Asia Institute at The University of Texas at Austin has initiated a three-year partnership with Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, that will bring faculty members from FJWU to Austin in January to work on research and course development in liberal arts and communication.

As the new school year begins, 2,000 Central Texas children will be building fundamental literacy skills through a partnership led by The University of Texas at Austin’s ACE (A Community for Education) program. The program is expanding to reach 2,000 children in the 2012-13 school year, which is double the number of students ACE reached…

To better inform and engage parents, educators, legislators and advocates in discussion of these issues, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin will host “Measuring Up: A Statewide Conversation on High-Stakes Testing and Accountability” on Sept. 24. The event is free and open to the public.

First-graders at UT Elementary thrive at project-based learning with exciting results.

Providing English language learners (ELLs) with iPod Touches, or similar handheld devices, can increase learning time and motivation, according to a study from The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education.

Twenty-seven faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin will receive the 2012 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, the UT System Board of Regents’ highest teaching honor, which recognizes extraordinary educators from system institutions.

University of Texas at Austin faculty experts are available to talk about a wide range of K-12 and higher education issues related to the start of school, including education policy, teaching strategies, children’s mental and emotional health, and closing the achievement gap.  

Communicating the Human Side of Social Issues: Classes take students out into the Austin community to see how the issues they’re learning about are being experienced by real people.

Africa has done the least to contribute to climate change but will suffer the most from it. LBJ School students have joined the search for answers.

South Texas’ Starr County is a national poster child for diabetes. But UT Nursing’s Sharon Brown is helping residents help themselves.

Representatives from The University of Texas at Austin will present their first-year results of their pilot project to transform lower-division courses at an international higher education summit on Wednesday, June 20.