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Summer Break: Longhorns Put Their Horns Up Across the Globe While Studying Abroad
As summer comes to a close and students are returning to the Forty Acres, we’re looking back at how some Longhorns spent time studying abroad. In 78 countries across the globe, these students experienced an adventure-filled summer.
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University of Texas, Japan Collaborate on Next-Generation Energy Efficient Data Center
Partnering with the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), which acts as a Japanese government agency, UT Austin will begin using alternative energy sources to power some of its high-performance computers.
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Task Force Releases Report on Statuary on UT Austin Campus
The Task Force on Historical Representation of Statuary at UT Austin delivered its report to President Gregory L. Fenves on Aug. 10.
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Scientists Pioneer Method to Track Water Flowing Through Glaciers
New technique pioneered by UT Austin scientists is an essential step to understanding the future of the world’s largest glaciers as climate changes.
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Genders Differ Dramatically in Evolved Mate Preferences
Men’s and women’s ideas of the perfect mate differ significantly due to evolutionary pressures, according to a cross-cultural study on multiple mate preferences by psychologists at UT Austin.
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Halliburton Partners With McCombs School to Teach Business Education Across Disciplines
Halliburton has donated $1 million to renew support of the Texas Business Foundations Summer Institute at the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin. The grant will fund the Summer Institute through 2020.
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NEH Grant Will Transform Study of Early Books
A National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant will make many of the first books printed in the Americas available for the first time in digital full-text format, thanks to innovations in optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
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Med School Rising
Since October 2014, eight construction cranes have towered over the UT’s most intense construction effort in decades: the creation of Dell Medical School and the medical district that will surround it. Get a view from the top.
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Tower Turns Orange for LHN Filming
The university Tower will be lit Thursday, July 30 to support a Longhorn Network filming crew.
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UT Austin Leads National Effort to Help Transfer Students Earn Associate Degrees
Almost 270,000 Texans could be eligible to receive associate degrees for coursework they have completed through Reverse Transfer, the first national service to retroactively award the degrees to students after they transfer to a four-year university.
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Hormones Influence Unethical Behavior
Hormones play a two-part role in encouraging and reinforcing cheating and other unethical behavior, according to research from Harvard University and UT Austin.
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Selective Imitation Shows Children are Flexible Social Learners, Study Finds
Psychologists at UT Austin found that children flexibly choose when to imitate and when to innovate the behavior of others, demonstrating that children are precocious social learners.
