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Statement from UT Austin President Bill Powers on the White House Report About Sexual Assaults on American College Campuses
The following is a statement from University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers regarding the recent report from the White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault:
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UT Energy Poll and OurEnergyPolicy.org Surveys Reveal Support for Energy Efficiency and Concerns about Political Squabbling
Four out of five American consumers and energy professionals view energy efficiency as a personal priority and at least two out of three believe it could significantly reduce overall energy use if not for political squabbling, two new surveys show.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UT Remembers on May 2 to Honor Members of University Community Who Died in Past Year
EVENT: UT Remembers, a day of remembrance honoring more than 180 members of the university community students and current and retired faculty and staff members who died during the previous year.
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Student Teams from 12 Countries Will Compete in Annual Global Venture Labs Investment Competition
The Global Venture Labs Investment Competition (Global VLIC), the longest-running investment competition for graduate student entrepreneurs, takes place May 1-3 at the ATandT Executive Education and Conference Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Smart Ideas for Reviving American Health Care
It’s too expensive and makes too many mistakes. Expert faculty members offer their solutions for an ailing system.
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Six Faculty Members Named to Academy of Distinguished Teachers at UT Austin
Six faculty members at The University of Texas at Austin have been named to the university’s respected Academy of Distinguished Teachers for 2014, said Gregory L. Fenves, executive vice president and provost.
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UT Austin Evolutionary Ecologist Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
[caption id="attachment_45599" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Eric Pianka. Photo by Marsha Miller/UT Austin."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced this week the election of 204 new members, including Eric Pianka, an evolutionary ecologist in The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Natural Sciences.
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Statement from UT Austin on the Exploration of Shared Services
In these days of dwindling higher education funding, we have to be responsible stewards of tax and tuition dollars. Consolidating administrative roles that are now spread across campus, and doing so largely through attrition, can help save $30 million to $40 million each year that can be spent on our educational mission.
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Two Longhorns Land Elite Academic Scholarships
The highly competitive Hertz Foundation Fellowship and British Marshall Scholarship each fully fund graduate education for the recipients, who are headed to MIT and the University of Manchester.
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Coming Up with Explanations Helps Children Develop Cause-and-Effect Thinking Skills, Study Shows
Asking children to come up with explanations even to themselves enhances their cause-and-effect learning abilities, according to new psychology research from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Until There’s a Cure: 21 Ways Longhorns Fight Cancer
Faculty are tackling the challenge from many fronts, working to more deeply understand cancer in order to defeat it. “There is still so much work to be done.”
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Statement from UT Austin President Bill Powers on Schuette Decision
The following is a statement from University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers regarding the Supreme Court’s decision in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action:
