Archive - Page 230 of 528 - UT Austin News

Influential Marketing Executive Invests $1 Million in McCombs School of Business

Robert Malcolm, executive in residence at the McCombs School of Business, has donated $1 million to the school to establish an endowed chair in marketing innovation.

Student Experience

MEDIA ADVISORY: Texas Politics Speaker Series Presents a Live-Streamed Conversation with House Speaker Joe Straus

Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives Joe Straus will address policy issues facing the 85th Texas Legislature in a live-streamed interview with the Texas Politics Project.

Student Experience

MEDIA ADVISORY: U.S. Rep. John Lewis and Co-Authors to Discuss Memoir on Civil Rights

U.S. Rep. John Lewis and his co-authors will discuss their graphic memoir “MARCH,” which exposes the fear, fight and freedom won through political engagement.

Research

Human Skull Evolved Along with Two-Legged Walking, Study Confirms

Researchers confirm that the evolution of bipedalism in fossil humans can be detected using a key feature of the skull.

Campus

What is the Value of a Human Life?

History professor Daina Ramey Berry’s new book is the first to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives – including from before birth to after death.

Research

Recovery after “Great Dying” Was Slowed by More Extinctions

Researchers studying marine fossil beds have found that the world’s worst mass extinction was followed by two other extinction events, a conclusion that could explain why it took ecosystems millions of years to recover.

Research

MEDIA ADVISORY: UT Austin Researchers Celebrate 15th Anniversary of NASA’s GRACE Twin Satellite Mission

The Center for Space Research at The University of Texas at Austin is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE).

Campus

Music and The Brain

Q+A with Professor Bob Duke on how studying the brains of musicians can teach us more about how we learn.

Research

UT Austin Receives $5.6M for Long-term Study of Alaska’s Arctic Coast

Researchers will study changes on land and in the ocean that affect the fish and wildlife that native communities depend on.

Student Experience

U.S. News Ranks More Than 40 Programs at UT Austin Among Nation’s Top 10

UT Austin has more than 40 graduate programs ranked among the top 10 in the nation and four programs ranked No. 1, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 edition of “Best Graduate Schools,” released this morning.