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Faculty Experts Address Wildfire’s Impact
As the Hidden Pines fire continues to burn over thousands of acres in Bastrop County, faculty members at UT Austin offer their expertise on tracking the wildfire spread, preserving personal items of victims, and the impacts of fires on landscapes.
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Healing Through Harmony
Meet HARMONY, a first-of-its-kind, two-armed, robotic rehabilitation exoskeleton. Harmony provides a new method of high-quality, data-driven therapy to patients suffering from spinal and neurological injuries, including strokes.
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Longhorn Foundation Launches Campaign to Fully Endow Fred Steinmark Fund
To coincide with the release of the biopic film “My All American,” the Longhorn Foundation for Texas Athletics launches its first-ever crowdfunding campaign to fully endow the Fred Steinmark Fund.
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Famed University of Texas Mascot Bevo XIV Retires After Cancer Diagnosis
Beloved University of Texas mascot BEVO XIV, whose given name is Sunrise Studly, has been diagnosed with Bovine Leukemia Virus and, following a triumph in the AT&T Red River Showdown, is being retired effective immediately.
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Goodenough Shares $1 Million Global Prize for Innovation
John B. Goodenough will receive the Samson Prize, totaling $1 million. It is the world’s largest monetary prize awarded in the field of alternative fuels and is granted to scientists who have made critical advancements.
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Unmanaged Fishing at Spawning Sites Put Species, Economies at Risk
Countries worldwide may soon see mass species loss and challenges for local fishing economies if predictable breeding events where fish gather in large numbers remain unprotected from overfishing, scientists say.
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Research Identifies Career Resources That Millennials Need in Changing Economy
Doing Innovation, a research project at UT Austin, has launched a multimedia website that examines how millennials are using new technology, developing creative communities and finding innovative paths to respond to the changing economy.
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Press Preview and Symposium Will Celebrate Opening of Gabriel García Márquez Archive
The Harry Ransom Center hosts a Oct. 21 news media preview for the opening of the Gabriel García Márquez archive at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Going the Distance: Students Compete in Solar Decathlon
More than 60 students from The University of Texas at Austin and the Technische Universität München (TUM) in Germany have spent two years imagining how to power our homes and keep our day-to-day lives running on light from the sun. Now, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, the solar-powered home they…
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Astronomer Daniel Jaffe Named Vice President for Research at UT Austin
Professor of Astronomy Daniel Jaffe has been appointed vice president for research at UT Austin.
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Global Public Health Messages Should Tell Stories to Go Viral, Study Says
Global public health agencies such as the CDC should use storytelling techniques to get audiences to share key public health messages, according to a UT health communication scholar.
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Flame Retardant Breakthrough is Naturally Derived and Nontoxic
Researchers at UT Austin have created a new nontoxic flame retardant to replace commercial additives that are often toxic.
