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Dell Medical School Health Sciences Summer Camps Introduce Austin Students to Medicine & Health Professions
The Dell Medical School at UT Austin won’t open for nearly a year. But its first group of students — more than 50 Austin Independent School District (AISD) high schoolers — has already started with Monday’s launch of the Dell Medical School Health Sciences Summer Camp.
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Obama Will Name UT Austin’s Sandra Black to Council of Economic Advisers
President Barack Obama intends to nominate UT Austin economics Professor Sandra E. Black to join the three-member White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).
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UT Austin Receives Final Approval for New Doctorate for Nurses
UT Austin’s School of Nursing has received final approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to launch a doctor of nursing practice (DNP) degree program, a professional doctoral program designed to prepare graduates for today’s increasingly complex health care practice and clinical leadership roles.
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Texas Astronomers Help Find Earth’s Older, Bigger Cousin
UT Austin astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler mission have helped to discover the first near-Earth-sized planet around a Sun-like star in the “habitable zone,” the range of distances where liquid water could pool on a planet’s surface.
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Smarter Window Materials Can Control Light and Energy
Cockrell School Engineers have two new advancements in smart window materials that allow indoor occupants to more precisely control the energy and sunlight passing through a window.
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Professor Aims to Expand Art Audiences With $3.5 Million Wallace Foundation Grant
Professor Francie Ostrower is the recipient of a $3.5 million grant from The Wallace Foundation to study how performing arts organizations can develop approaches to attracting new audiences with the aim of generating useful lessons for arts organizations across the nation.
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$13.7 Million NSF Grant Creates Natural Hazards Engineering Center at UT Austin
The Cockrell School of Engineering is leading the effort to build a software platform, data repository and tools that will help the US design more resilient buildings, levees and other public infrastructure that could protect lives, property and communities.
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Summer With Shakespeare
Ride a roller coaster of love, march toward war or brave the perils of the sea during performances of Shakespeare’s plays at Winedale. A cast of students is spending two months — and 18 hours a day — studying the Bard’s work and bringing the plays to life in performances this summer.
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“Very Light” Smoking Popular Among Young Adult Women, Study Finds
“Very light” smoking, defined as five or fewer cigarettes per day, is common among young adult women in the United States, according to researchers at UT Austin.
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Seton and UT Austin Launch Innovative Research to Improve Healthcare Services Delivery
Seton Healthcare Family and UT Austin’s Center for Health and Social Policy (CHASP) at the LBJ School of Public Affairs have announced the funding of seven new health care research studies aimed at resolving critical health and health care services delivery problems in Central Texas.
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Keck Foundation Awards $1.5 Million for New Method to Cool Atoms and Student Research
The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded scientists at UT AUstin two grants totaling $1.5 million to develop a powerful, alternative method for cooling atoms and involve more undergraduate students in using new advanced technologies for research.
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From the Forty Acres to Pluto: Longhorns in Space
As NASA’s New Horizons approaches Pluto, one alumnus will have particular cause to celebrate the accomplishment. From leading historic missions to out-of-this-world research, explore how Longhorns are changing the world with space-related projects.
