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School of Nursing Awarded Grant to Address Nursing Faculty Shortage
The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing has received a grant of $20,000 from the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare to help fund the scholarships of two doctoral nursing students in 2014.
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Talbert to Receive Pharmacy Educators’ Highest Award
Robert L. Talbert, a professor of pharmacy in the College of Pharmacy at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award presented by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).
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Presidents Carter and Clinton to Keynote LBJ Presidential Library Civil Rights Summit on UT Campus
The LBJ Presidential Library, located on The University of Texas at Austin campus, will host a Civil Rights Summit on April 8-10 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Lyndon Baines Johnson drove passage of the legislation and signed it into law.
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Molecular Imprints Acquired by Canon
The semiconductor lithography company, founded by Cockrell School professors S.V. Sreenivasan and Grant Willson, employs technology developed at UT. Learn more.
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Violin Virtuosos Take Center Stage at UT
UT hosts the world’s best violinists under age 22 for the Menuhin Competition, considered the Olympics of violin competitions. It’s the first time the event will be held in North America.
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UT Austin Students to Compete in 2015 Solar Decathlon, Build Solar House
The School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with Technische Universität München (TUM), has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of 20 collegiate teams to compete in the 2015 Solar Decathlon.
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Houston Family Donates $5 Million Toward Construction of Graduate Business School
Bob and Marcie Zlotnik, founders of Houston energy company StarTex Power and alumni of The University of Texas at Austin, have pledged $5 million toward the construction of Robert B. Rowling Hall, the new graduate education building at the McCombs School of Business.
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Eyes on the Civil Rights Era
Photojournalists R.C. Hickman and Calvin Littlejohn documented African-American communities in Dallas and Fort Worth in the decades following World War II. See a slideshow.
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Crazy Ants Dominate Fire Ants By Neutralizing Their Venom
Invasive “crazy ants” are rapidly displacing fire ants in areas across the southeastern U.S. by secreting a compound that neutralizes fire ant venom, according to a University of Texas at Austin study published this week in the journal Science Express. It’s the first known example of an insect with the ability to detoxify another insect’s venom.
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New Research Revises Conventions for Deciphering Color in Dinosaurs While Suggesting Connection between Color and Physiology
New research that revises recently established conventions allowing scientists to decipher color in dinosaurs may also provide a tool for understanding the evolutionary emergence of flight and changes in dinosaur physiology prior to the origin of flight.
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In Love at UT
We’re celebrating love at UT, with alumni and student love stories, the best campus dates and romantic research. Plus, love-ly UT Facebook cover images just in time for Valentine’s Day.
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Changing the Field: Integrating Athletics at UT
This academic year marks 50 years since the university integrated its athletic program. The years before and after that moment contain a complex history. Learn more.
