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Gabriel García Márquez: His Life and Legacy
To mark the opening of the Gabriel García Márquez archive at UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center, international scholars, journalists, filmmakers and former colleagues of García Márquez gathered Oct. 28-30 on campus to discuss his global influence. Look back at highlights from the symposium.
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UT Austin Startup Incubator is Among National Elite
The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) at UT Austin has been named one of the top eight startup incubators in the nation by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a leading international entrepreneurship organization.
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Belo Foundation Awards UT Austin $1.5 Million for Journalism Innovation Endowment
The Belo Foundation of Dallas has awarded UT Austin $1.5 million to create the Dallas Morning News Journalism Innovation Endowment, a fund to support digital innovation in the Moody College of Communication School of Journalism.
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Spooky Research: Faculty Experts Explore Halloween Topics
View a collection of ‘spooky’ scholarly work by UT Austin faculty experts who study ghostly folklore, the science of superstition, making sense of the unknown and other eerie topics.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UT Austin Students Celebrate Thanks Day to Honor Donors
During UT Austin’s sixth annual Thanks Day event, students, faculty members and staffers will honor the 88,000-plus donors who contributed more than $271 million to the university last year.
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Grant Supports Creation of Makerspace in Fine Arts Library
The Hearst Foundations have awarded a $200,000 grant to the Center for Arts and Entertainment Technologies in the College of Fine Arts and the Fine Arts Library at UT Austin to help create a common makerspace.
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Gabriel García Márquez Symposium Marks Opening of Author’s Archive
UT Austin’s LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum, are hosting the symposium “Gabriel García Márquez: His Life and Legacy.”
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“Eurozone and the Americas” Conference Will Explore Recent Dramatic Events in Europe
The LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin will host “The Eurozone and the Americas: Debt and Democracy,” a two-day conference with policy experts and political leaders from Europe and North and South America.
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Singapore Selects UT Austin for $3 Million Research Project
The Construction Industry Institute (CII), a research consortium based in the Cockrell School of Engineering at UT Austin, has signed a $3 million agreement with Singapore to help improve the productivity of the country’s energy and chemicals industry.
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Extinct Species of Pig-Snouted Turtle Unearthed in Utah
Researchers have discovered a species of extinct pig-nose turtle that lived alongside dinosaurs and fills a gap in understanding the evolution of turtles.
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Gabriel García Márquez Archive Opens for Research on Oct. 21
The archive of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) opens Oct. 21 for research at UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center.
