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Experts Available to Discuss Dell Shareholder Meeting
A few months ago, Michael Dell made headlines with his announcement to turn his 29-year-old company created in his UT Austin dorm room, Dell Inc., private. This week, shareholders will meet to vote on his plan.
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UT Austin Establishes Texas Invasive Species Program with $2.7 Million from Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation
To combat and manage pesky invasive species such as fire ants, tawny crazy ants and Cactoblastis moths, the Texas Invasive Species Program has been established at The University of Texas at Austin with $2.7 million in support from the Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation.
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Robotic Frogs Help Turn a Boring Mating Call into a Serenade
With the help of a robotic frog, biologists at The University of Texas at Austin and Salisbury University have discovered that two wrong mating calls can make a right for female túngara frogs.
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Weekly Readings: Quantifying Self
Neuroscientist Russell Poldrack is in the middle of a yearlong quest to study a single human brain — his own. Read more about how Poldrack is quantifying himself.
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Architecture School No. 2 for Student Satisfaction
Close relationships with faculty, collaborative projects and strong professional preparation all lead UT architecture students to love their school. Watch a video about their experience.
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Scientists Cast Doubt on Theory of What Triggered Antarctic Glaciation
[caption id=”attachment_41104″ align=”alignright” width=”300″ caption=”Physiographic map of the present-day Scotia Sea, Drake Passage and adjacent land masses. The white arrows show the present path of the several branches of the deep Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) centered on its core. The area of study in the central Scotia Sea (CSS) is shown by the black box…
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New Latin American Center at Law School Named for Kay Bailey Hutchison
The Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Latin American Law is being established within the School of Law at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Ransom Center Acquires Papers of Writer Barbara Probst Solomon
[caption id="attachment_40983" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Barbara Probst Solomon's press pass for The New York Review."][/caption] The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of Barbara Probst Solomon, a prolific writer and chronicler of 20th- and 21st-century culture. The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, published…
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Scientists Image Vast Subglacial Water System Underpinning West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
In a development that will help predict potential sea level rise from the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists from The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Geophysics have used an innovation in radar analysis to accurately image the vast subglacial water system under West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier. They have detected a swamp-like canal system beneath…
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New Rankings put UT Austin Among Top World Universities, Best Buys in Higher Ed
The University of Texas at Austin has been recognized as both the 26th best university in the world and one of the “best buys” in higher education by a pair of prestigious organizations that track higher education internationally.
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Teaching and Learning in China
Kicking their summer off with a trip to China, a group of Longhorns learned about social entrepreneurship and volunteered at a Beijing school for children of migrant workers. See a slideshow.
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Understanding Drought
As Texans look for ways to prepare for the next big drought, Jackson School scientists are looking to the past for answers. Watch a video to learn how a nearby cave may hold clues.
