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Harry Ransom Center’s World-Renowned Photography Collection Energized By New Acquisitions
The Harry Ransom Center presents the exhibition “Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions” Feb. 9 to May 29, 2016, featuring photography from the art form’s post-war expansion to its central position in contemporary art.
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University Statement on Situation in Paris
As of Saturday, Nov. 14, we have reached all of the UT Austin students that we know are in France and have confirmed their safety.
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Austinites “Cautiously Optimistic” About 10-1 Representation System
Austinites are “cautiously optimistic” about the future of the 10-1 system of geographic representation adopted by the City of Austin in 2014 to elect City Council members, according to a report conducted by the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life and Leadership Austin.
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Trump and Cruz Tied in University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll
Equal numbers of Republican primary voters in Texas chose U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump as their first choice to be the Republican presidential nominee in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune statewide poll.
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Cancer Agency Helps UT Austin Bring Top Researcher to Engineering and Medical Schools
Thanks to a $6 million recruitment grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), The University of Texas at Austin has hired Thomas Yankeelov, a distinguished cancer researcher who will assume a dual appointment in the Cockrell School of Engineering and the Dell Medical School.
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Giant Magellan Telescope, World’s Largest, Breaks Ground in Chilean Desert
The McDonald Observatory, along with an international group of universities and research institutions, celebrate groundbreaking for telescope that will address key questions in cosmology, astrophysics and more.
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UT Student Research Sheds Light on Veterans’ Mental Health
Texas is home to 1.7 million veterans, and many have mental health needs that are going untreated. To learn more about how Texas can support veterans’ mental health, six LBJ School students conducted a policy research project that has had a big impact.
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Crowdfunded Mobile App Hopes to Answer Why Monarchs Are Out to Sea
How are UT researchers tracking monarch butterflies’ over-ocean migration pattern? There’s an app for that.
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Mixing Ages in Head Start Stunts Academic Progress
Four-year-olds in the nation’s largest preschool program fare worse with 3-year-olds in their classrooms, according to new research that shows a common practice in most Head Start programs may stunt children’s learning.
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Thanks for Helping UT Austin Shine Bright
More than 88,000 alumni and friends supported UT Austin last year. On Thanks Day, we show our appreciation to everyone who helps the university shine bright. Take a look at what Longhorns are saying about how your generosity helps change the world.
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UT Austin and NASA Expand High School STEM Initiative, Launch New Online Program
NASA has selected the Cockrell School of Engineering at UT Austin for a five-year, $1.3 million grant that will support the national expansion of a STEM program that gives high school students and teachers the opportunity to use NASA resources and work directly with engineers at UT Austin’s Center for Space Research.
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Researchers Win $2 Million Grant to Develop Atomically Thin Semiconductors
A research team led by Xiaoqin Elaine Li has been awarded a grant of $2 million to research and develop thin, flexible semiconductors that might eventually lead to bendable computer screens and wearable electronics.
