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Opinion: LBJ’s Legacy Lives On
Robert Hutchings, dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, draws on LBJ’s legacy to empower a new generation of students to tackle the great policy challenges of our time.
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Report Highlights Importance of More Fully Engaging Part-Time Faculty at Community Colleges
Despite the fact that, compared to full-time faculty, community college part-time faculty have less teaching experience, hold fewer advanced degrees, and are not on a tenure track, they are most often assigned to teach students who require more help, says a new University of Texas at Austin report.
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Opinion: America’s Promise is Possible
“Our Civil Rights legacy should be that we ensured equality through policies and laws that outlawed discrimination, period,” says prof, former Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin.
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Clements Center to Welcome U.S. Senator Marco Rubio
The William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft at The University of Texas at Austin is proud to present an address by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.
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UT Austin-AISD Partnership to Support Computer Science Education
The University of Texas at Austin and the Austin Independent School District (AISD) are partnering to offer college credit to computer science students in AISD high schools.
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UT Austin Offers Experts on Civil Rights for the Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library
Experts from across multiple disciplines at UT Austin are available to speak with the media on topics related to the Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library April 8-10.
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UT Austin Experts Offer Insight on Fort Hood Shooting
AUSTIN, Texas One hundred miles from Fort Hood, The University of Texas at Austin has experts available who can offer insights to help understand Wednesday’s tragic shooting. This list will likely expand. Please check back for additions.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UT Center for Identity to Host Third Annual ID360: The Global Forum on Identity
AUSTIN, Texas Data storage, mobile threats, security breaches and growing concerns among consumers are the focus of the third annual ID360: The Global Forum on Identity.
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Crib Mattresses Emit High Rates of Potentially Harmful Chemicals, Cockrell School Engineers Find
Editor’s note from UT Austin media relations office on funding: As noted in the release, this study was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Nordic Research Opportunity program, a joint program between NSF and the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes). AUSTIN, Texas In a first-of-its-kind study, a team of environmental engineers from…
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Watch the Civil Rights Summit Live
All the tickets may be spoken for, but you can still watch the speeches and panels, thanks to extensive livestream coverage. Get the details.
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Four UT Austin Engineers Receive NSF CAREER Awards
Four faculty members from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to receive Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards totaling $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation. Since 2012, 14 Cockrell School faculty members have received CAREER Awards.
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Tower Darkens March 29 for Earth Hour
The Tower will go dark Saturday evening to show the university’s support for Earth Hour 2014, a global event demonstrating commitment to energy conservation.
