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5 Secrets to a Happier and Healthier Thanksgiving
Our dietician’s surprising words of wisdom will help you sail through the Thanksgiving holiday healthy and guilt free.
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A Burnt Orange Thanksgiving
Burnt orange foods are packed with vitamins, minerals and Longhorn pride. See which foods our nutrition expert recommends.
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Tower Lighting Celebrates Clements Center
The university will celebrate the opening of the Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft with a burnt orange Tower lighting Nov. 21.
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Expert Guide: Rare Convergence of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving
This season, Hanukkah begins the night before Thanksgiving, creating an unusual intersection of the two holidays.
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Daily Online Testing Boosts College Performance and Reduces Achievement Gaps, Study Shows
More low-income students are attending college than ever before, but many of them are ill prepared for the challenges of higher learning. Now University of Texas at Austin researchers are finding ways to level the higher-education playing field with a new online learning model.
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Milner Wins Inventor of the Year Award
The biomedical engineering professor was honored for his development of light-based therapeutic and diagnostic procedures that help doctors detect diseases like glaucoma and heart disease. [Video]
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UT Austin President Powers Meets with Congressional Leaders on Sequestration
University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers and other higher education officials will meet today with congressional leaders to discuss federal sequestration’s damaging effect on university research and possible solutions as Congress negotiates spending levels for 2014.
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Engineering Professor Thomas Milner Named UT Austin’s Inventor of the Year
Researcher’s findings help detect and diagnose threatening illnesses.
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Tower Goes Dark for Longhorn Lights Out
Longhorn Lights Out ask the university community to turn off lights, computers, and other equipment when leaving campus buildings for the weekend on Friday, Nov. 22. In support of Longhorn Lights Out, the Tower will not be lit from sunset Nov. 22 to dawn on Nov. 23.
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TACC to Deploy Maverick for Interactive, Remote Visualization and Data Analysis
New system will make sense of Big Science Data for researchers in the U.S. open science community
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High School Students Forge Stronger, More Positive Friendships in Shared Classes, Study Shows
Teenagers continue to roam in cliques in high school, as they have for generations. Yet according to a new study from The University of Texas at Austin and Michigan State University, high school students are not choosing friends from certain categories, such as “jocks,” “goths” or “A-listers.” Instead, they are forging friendships in the types…
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UT Austin’s Response to YCT Decision to Cancel Event
Statement from The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin honors the right of free speech for all students. We welcome the Young Conservatives of Texas’ decision to cancel Wednesday’s event and look forward to the group being part of a thoughtful campus discussion about immigration.
