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UT Austin Engineer Wins $1 Million National Science Foundation Award
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Andrea Alù, an associate professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, the prestigious 2015 Waterman Award, which comes with $1 million of research funding. Alù is the first recipient from a Texas university.
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Tower Shines for Students’ Successes at Honors Day
We’re lighting the Tower Saturday, April 18 for the students being recognized at Honors Day.
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Hot Chips: Managing Moore’s Law
As computer chips get faster, they also get hotter. Researchers are exploring ways to beat the heat and help make the next great leap in processor speeds.
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Powering the Future: Why UT Is The Energy University
We expect energy to be ever-present, but it has to come from somewhere. Learn how UT researchers working in energy-related fields will help keep energy flowing into the future.
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Typhoon Haiyan’s Storm Surge May Contaminate Aquifer for Years
Scientists have found that geology and infrastructure play key roles in determining whether aquifers that provide drinking water are inundated with seawater during a typhoon or hurricane and how long the contamination lasts.
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Powers Honors Six Leading UT Austin Alumni with Presidential Citations
University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers will recognize six esteemed leaders from law, business and public service with Presidential Citations this week, marking his final tribute as president to some of the university’s biggest supporters.
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36 UT Austin Students Receive National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships
The National Science Foundation (NSF) selected 36 students from The University of Texas at Austin for its prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships Program, giving UT Austin the 12th highest number of NSF graduate fellows in the country in 2015.
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UT Austin Senior Wins National Student Employee of the Year Award
You may not suspect that a senior majoring in anthropology and radio-television-film is shaping the future of Texas engineering, but then, you haven’t met Coleman Tharpe, a marketing and communication student employee with the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Webber Energy Group at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Visual Arts Center Participates in Exhibition Exploring Experiential Art Organized by The Contemporary Austin
The Contemporary Austin will present “Strange Pilgrims” — the museum’s first large-scale, thematic group exhibition — Sept. 27-Jan. 24, with special venue support and artist-in-residence partnership from theVisual Arts Center in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin (VAC).
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Longhorn Jordan Spieth Wins Golf’s Masters
Jordan Spieth, who helped lead the Longhorns to the NCAA National Men’s Golf Championship in 2012, won the Masters on Sunday, April 12.
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Shakespeare Wrote Contested Play, Suggests Psychological Text Analysis
Through the use of text-analysis software, psychology researchers have identified William Shakespeare as the author of the long-contested play “Double Falsehood,” as described this week in the journal Psychological Science.
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Life as a Longhorn: See the Forty Acres Through the Eyes of Students
What is life really like as an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin? To find out, we asked students to snap photographs during a typical day.
