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The Food Lab Offers $30,000 in Prizes for Food System Innovation
AUSTIN, Texas Do you have an idea for a business, a product or a process that will change the way the world feeds itself? If so, consider submitting your business plan to The Food Lab Challenge, an early-stage startup competition launching June 1. Entrants will compete for $30,000 in prizes to launch their business ventures.
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Tech and Health: Innovative Devices Aren’t Science Fiction
From nanomotors to customized prosthetics, check out inventions developed by Cockrell School engineers to provide better health care options in the future.
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Longhorn Student Film Wins Top Prize at Cannes
RTF student Annie Silverstein’s short film “Skunk” won first prize in the Cinéfoundation Selection at the Cannes Film Festival. Watch a trailer and hear from the filmmaker.
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Lifelike Heart Valve Model Will Aid Treatment
Michael Sacks is developing mitral valve models that will enable heart surgeons to test solutions before they enter the operating room.
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Engineers Build World’s Smallest, Fastest Nanomotor
AUSTIN, Texas Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built the smallest, fastest and longest-running tiny synthetic motor to date. The team’s nanomotor is an important step toward developing miniature machines that could one day move through the body to administer insulin for diabetics when needed, or…
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Commencement 2014: “The Eyes of Texas Will Always Be Upon You”
See the images, quotes and fabulous caps from UT’s 2014 Spring Commencement. Plus, video of those amazing fireworks and Admiral McRaven’s moving keynote address.
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Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World
Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, delivered a memorable speech at the University-wide Commencement on May 17, 2014
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ConocoPhillips Donates More Than $1 Million to The University of Texas at Austin
ConocoPhillips continued its commitment to funding higher education at The University of Texas at Austin yesterday with a contribution of $1.185 million.
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Genetic Study Confirms Link between Earliest Americans and Modern Native Americans
The ancient remains of a teenage girl found in an underwater Mexican cave establish a definitive link between the earliest Americans and modern Native Americans, according to a new study released today in the journal Science.
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Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law and Business to be Established at UT Austin
The Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law and Business will be established jointly by the School of Law and the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.
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McCombs School of Business Advances Plans for New Robert B. Rowling Hall
The University of Texas Board of Regents today approved the plans for Robert B. Rowling Hall, which will house the McCombs School of Business Texas MBA and Texas MSTC programs. It will double the space available for Texas Executive Education programs and, in conjunction with the ATandT Executive Education and Conference Center, increase the convention…
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Acclaimed Writer Ian McEwan’s Archive Acquired by Harry Ransom Center
AUSTIN, Texas The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of writer Ian McEwan (b. 1948), one of the most distinguished novelists of his generation.
