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National Security Experts Convene at UT Austin
The Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law will host national security experts at UT Austin on Nov. 19-21 to explore the security challenges faced by the United States.
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UT Austin Partners with Alda Center to Improve Health and Scientific Communication
UT Austin will partner with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook to help scientists and health practitioners better communicate scientific findings to patients and the public.
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UT Austin Reviews Recent Incident
The University of Texas at Austin is reviewing last Friday’s confrontation and the subsequent social media postings surrounding an event sponsored by our Institute for Israel Studies.
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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.
