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Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what’s in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, a team of scientists led by The University of Texas at Austin has determined.
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Plan II Senior Awarded 2017 Rhodes Scholarship
University of Texas at Austin student Mikaila Smith has been awarded a 2017 Rhodes scholarship, one of the most distinguished graduate scholarships in the world.
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Five Fellows Named to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
The world’s largest general scientific society honors five distinguished UT Austin scientists in the ntural sciences and liberal arts.
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5 Tweets That Tell You What You Need to Know About the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs
66 million years ago, a giant asterioid slammed into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. These five tweets sum up the latest research from the impact crater in Mexico.
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UT Mourns the Death of Denton Cooley
The University of Texas at Austin mourns the loss of alumnus, supporter and world-renowned medical pioneer in heart surgery Dr. Denton Cooley (BA, 1941), who died at age 96.
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Insurers Use High Drug Costs to Deter Some Obamacare Patients, Economist Says
A UT Austin economist will brief members of Congress on how insurers are using high out-of-pocket prescription drug costs to deter certain chronically ill patients from joining their plans in the individual markets.
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Dino-Killing Asteroid Made Rocks Behave like Liquid and Could Have Provided Habitat for New Life
A study of the massive crater that formed when an asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago is giving insights into how impacts can help shape planets.
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5 Ways You Can Help UT Students Change the World
Rolling up your sleeves and putting research to work is a big part of the Longhorn experience. Our students don’t just learn about helping people. They are out there making these ideas a reality.
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McCombs School Partners with VA to Improve Services for U.S. Veterans
A program within the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin is teaming up with the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve services for veterans.
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U.S. Army Research Laboratory announces establishment of ARL South at UT
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is partnering with UT Austin and The University of Texas System in an expansion of its open campus initiative, establishing ARL South on the campus of UT Austin.
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Flu Vaccine’s Effectiveness Can Be Improved, New Findings Suggest
A team at The University of Texas at Austin is reporting new findings that suggests that the conventional flu vaccine can be improved.
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Hal Alper Named 2016 Emerging Inventor of the Year
Hal Alper, associate professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, has been named the 2016 UT Emerging Inventor of the Year.
