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Cockrell School of Engineering Sees Highest Female Enrollment Numbers Ever
This fall, the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has set records in its female enrollment. The school reported the highest percentage of incoming female freshmen and the largest number of female undergraduates enrolled.
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DisABILITY Advocate Faculty Program
The faculty program will be held Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Activity Center 2.120. Read for more information and to RSVP.
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Genetic Influences on Cognition Increase with Age, Study Shows
About 70 percent of a person’s intelligence can be explained by their DNA and those genetic influences only get stronger with age, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Entrepreneur-in-Residence Brings Startup Savvy to UT
Bazaarvoice founder and former CEO Brett Hurt, BBA ’94, will serve as a mentor to students: “Swing for the fences,” he told incoming MBA students in August. Read more.
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Science Visualized
Science images are part of the discovery process, as researchers use 3-D models and data visualizations to uncover patterns in data. See our wild and colorful gallery.
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Affordable Care Act Expert Guide
Access the UT Austin Expert Guide on the Affordable Care Act.
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Singing Mice Protect Their Turf With High-Pitched Tunes
Two species of tawny brown singing mice that live deep in the mountain cloud forests of Costa Rica and Panama set their boundaries by emitting high-pitched trills, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered.
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UT Researcher’s $182,001 Week on “Jeopardy!”
Research associate and 2013 alumnus Jared Hall swept the competition for six straight games.
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UT Austin Anthropologists Confirm Link Between Cranial Anatomy and Two-Legged Walking
Anthropology researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have confirmed a direct link between upright two-legged (bipedal) walking and the position of the foramen magnum, a hole in the base of the skull that transmits the spinal cord.
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UT Austin’s Tinsley Oden Awarded Prestigious Honda Prize for Ecotechnology Work
The Honda Foundation of Japan has awarded this year’s Honda Prize to J. Tinsley Oden, director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at The University of Texas at Austin, for his role in establishing the field of computational mechanics, which enabled the development of computer simulation technology used broadly throughout industry and…
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Cultivating Statehood
Constitute, a new website by government scholar Zachary Elkins with a grant from Google Ideas, puts the world’s constitutions online as a resource for citizens. [Video]
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Government Professor Launches Google Constitutions Website at U.N. General Assembly
National constitutions are supposed to provide a sustainable structure for politics, yet only half live more than 19 years. Zachary Elkins, associate professor of government and a leading constitutional scholar, knows what it takes for constitutions to last for generations and now he’s teaming up with Google to share his expertise with drafters around the…
