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UT Elementary Awarded $100,000 State Farm Grant to Launch Community Garden
The University of Texas Elementary School (UTES) has received a $100,000 grant from the State Farm Youth Advisory Board (YAB) to plant a community garden that will serve the surrounding East Austin neighborhood.
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Texas Astronomers Measure Most Massive, Most Unusual Black Hole Using Hobby-Eberly Telescope
Astronomers have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory to measure the mass of what may be the most massive black hole yet 17 billion times our sun’s mass in galaxy NGC 1277. The unusual black hole makes up 14 percent of its galaxy’s mass, rather than the usual…
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Volleyball’s Eckerman Named Big 12’s Top Player
Haley Eckerman and her teammates celebrate their Big 12 championship with a Tower lighting Tuesday, then host the early rounds of the NCAA tournament this week.
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LBJ School Hosts Panels on Changing Demographics and Infrastructure Challenges as Part of Legislative Orientation
UT Austin and its LBJ School of Public Affairs will collaborate with the offices of Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst to host the Pre-Session Legislative Conference.
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NBA Great Bill Bradley to Speak at Basketball and American Culture Symposium
NBA Hall of Famer, Rhodes scholar and former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley will be the keynote speaker at The University of Texas at Austin’s Basketball and American Culture Symposium, sponsored by the H. J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports. In a talk titled “Values of the Game,” Bradley will discuss his basketball…
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Biography Captures Ann Richards’ Spirit
Author Jan Reid’s comprehensive book, “Let the People In,” published by The University of Texas Press, tells a personal story about the former Texas governor.
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Hoops History
Join the celebration of “Basket Ball” on campus this fall: See the original rules, view images of the game and hear from a Hall of Famer.
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UT Austin Recognized with Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award
The University of Texas at Austin is among the recipients of the first-ever Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. The university will be featured along with 47 other recipients in the December 2012 issue of the magazine. Schools were selected based on initiatives to promote diversity, including those focused…
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University of Texas Team Claims ‘Student Cluster Challenge’ Victory at SC12
A team of University of Texas at Austin undergraduates, mentored by staffers of the Texas Advanced Computing Center, won the seventh annual Student Cluster Competition this year at the Supercomputing ’12 (SC12) conference in Salt Lake City. SC12 has been the seminal international conference for high-performance computing (HPC) for the past 24 years.
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Reflect, Explain, Apply: Transforming Chem 301
Jimmy Wadman went from failing to teaching in Chemistry 301, a course transformed from massive lecture to interactive experience. Watch his story.
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New Tools for Teaching Ethics
Teachers and students now have new ways to explore ethical lessons, thanks to a video series created by the McCombs School of Business.
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Popular Autism Treatment Lacks Scientific Evidence
One of the most popular intervention therapies for children with autism spectrum disorders lacks scientific support according to a literature review published by professor Mark O’Reilly.
