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UT Austin Scientists Help NASA With Global Ice-Measuring Satellite
Scientists from UT’s Applied Research Laboratories aid NASA’s latest satellite mission.
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Fenves Unveils Increased Financial Aid, New Student Career Center in State of the University Address
UT Austin has expanded a new financial aid commitment for middle and low-income students to include all sophomores, juniors and seniors, President Gregory L. Fenves announced in the 2018 State of the University address.
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Business Genius Can Be Taught, Study Says
How did Steve Jobs do it? What about Whole Foods Market and Starbucks? These kinds of “breakout” success stories show what is possible when business leaders imagine into the future rather than re-enacting the past.
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UT Austin Rises Seven Spots in Ranking from U.S. News & World Report
UT Austin rises to No. 49 among national universities, No. 15 among public universities and remains the top public university in Texas in the latest undergraduate rankings from U.S. News & World Report.
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Galactic “Wind” Stifling Star Formation is Most Distant Yet Seen
For the first time, a powerful “wind” of molecules has been detected in a galaxy 12 billion light-years away, showing how the earliest galaxies regulated the birth of stars to keep from blowing themselves apart.
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What’s the Story Behind the Forty Acres?
The Forty Acres is the nickname for the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. It is also a big part of campus culture.
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Genes Are Key to Academic Success, Study Shows
Parents always worry about whether their children will do well in school, but their kids probably were born with much of what they will need to succeed.
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Texas Teens Become Citizen Scientists at UT Coding Camp
100 students came from across Texas to learn to code at UT’s J.J. Pickle Research Campus. They attended camps led by some of the best computer scientists and engineers in the world — most at no cost to them.
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Simple Test Detects Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes, Presence of Biopesticide
A new diagnostic tool can quickly and cheaply identify whether a mosquito belongs to the species that carries dangerous diseases such as Zika virus, dengue, chikungunya or yellow fever.
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Mammal Forerunner that Reproduced Like a Reptile Sheds Light on Brain Evolution
A newly described fossil of an extinct mammal relative — and her 38 babies — is among the best evidence that a key development in the evolution of mammals was trading brood power for brain power.
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New Texas Supercomputer to Push the Frontiers of Science
The National Science Foundation awards $60 million to the Texas Advanced Computing Center to build a new supercomputer that will be the fastest at any U.S. university and among the most powerful in the world.
