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Tower Shines for McCombs Investment Team
Congratulations to a team of McCombs School stock pitchers who brought home the top prize from a competition at Michigan. The Tower will glow orange Oct. 21 to mark the championship.
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Harry Ransom Center Accepting Applications for Research Fellowships in the Humanities
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, invites applications for its 20152016 research fellowships. More than 50 fellowships will be awarded for projects that require substantial onsite use of the Center’s collections, supporting research in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art,…
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UT’s Dell Medical School and Seton Teaching Hospital Lay Foundation for Working Relationship in Affiliation Agreement
A landmark agreement between The University of Texas at Austin and Seton Healthcare Family sets a legal foundation for a new medical school, a new teaching hospital, a health care district in downtown Austin and greater access to health services in Travis County.
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Mental Rest and Reflection Boost Learning, Study Suggests
A new study, which may have implications for approaches to education, finds that brain mechanisms engaged when people allow their minds to rest and reflect on things they’ve learned before may boost later learning.
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Parkinson Gene Link May Aid Battle Against Disease
A research lab at The University of Texas at Austin has identified the function of a gene believed to play a critical role in parkinsonian disorders.
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New Hurricane STORM Code to Provide Hourly Evacuation Updates
[caption id="attachment_48655" align="alignright" width="370" caption="2008 Hurricane Gustav surge map created by ICES."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas The University of Texas at Austin Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) has received a $3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to further advance the storm surge predictive simulations that have helped Texas emergency managers develop some of the…
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Ebola Update from UT Austin
The University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers sent this statement to the campus community today.
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Longhorn Band Alumni Return for Annual Performance
The University of Texas Longhorn Alumni Band boasts more than 3,000 members in seven countries. Every year, more than 500 of those alumni return to Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium to perform again with the eyes of Texas are upon them.
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Media Advisory: Mexico Presents Round One Oil & Gas Areas Available to Private Companies in 2015
Mexico’s round one executive and technical sessions on areas and fields that will be tendered in 2015 for private companies to participate in hydrocarbon exploration and extraction projects, hosted by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences and the Greater Houston Partnership.
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Book on Jefferson, Islam Among Hamilton Award Winners at UT Austin
University of Texas at Austin History Professor Denise A. Spellberg has been named the $10,000 grand prize winner of the 2014 University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards for her work “Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders.”
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New Gift Raises Mithoff Family Support of Pro Bono Program to $2 Million
[caption id="attachment_48507" align="alignright" width="368" caption="Richard and Virginia "Ginni" Mithoff."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas A recent $1 million gift to The University of Texas School of Law from Richard and Virginia “Ginni” Mithoff of Houston will support the school’s Pro Bono Program. The gift brings the Mithoffs’ total contributions to the program to $2 million.
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Tower Glows for 2014 Distinguished Alumni
The Texas Exes’ annual Distinguished Alumnus Awards, to be held Oct. 17, are the highest honor conveyed by the alumni association. Learn more about this year’s winners.
