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David Foster Wallace Materials Related to “The Pale King” Now Open For Research
Materials related to David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel “The Pale King” (April 2011) are now open for research at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.
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University of Texas at Austin Commemorates the 40th Anniversary of Title IX
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Title IX, The University of Texas at Austin College of Communication and Texas Athletics are hosting a series of events.
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Media Advisory: Panel, ‘The Economy in 2013 Now What?’
Tom Gilligan, economist and dean of the McCombs School of Business, will share the 30,000-foot view of America’s economy in 2012
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Artificially Intelligent Game Bots Pass the Turing Test on Turing’s Centenary
An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half the humans it competed against.
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NEH Awards $235,000 to Improve Accessibility to Historical Audio Files
A professor in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to develop the tools to sort and analyze recordings of poetry, speeches and folk tales in much the way that music files are already routinely analyzed.
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Bench to Bedside: Translational Science
On average, 24 years pass before a major scientific discovery makes its way from the laboratory to the patient. UT’s College of Pharmacy is working to speed up this process.
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UTeach-Liberal Arts Goes Global: Applying top teacher-training principles into different cultural frameworks
UTeach-Liberal Arts, a division of the university’s world-renowned teacher-training program, is now extending its efforts to universities across the globe.
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Pediatric Geneticist Searches for Role of Environmental Contaminants in Birth Defects with $1.2 Million Grant from EPA
The effects of environmental contaminants on fetal growth and development is the subject of new research by Richard Finnell, Robert Cabrera and a team of researchers in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin using a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Hispanic Leadership Summit: Hispanic Vote 2012 Understanding Our Strength
The McCombs School of Business Hispanic Leadership Initiative’s 4th Annual Hispanic Leadership Summit, Hispanic Vote 2012: Understanding Our Strength, will focus on the role of the Latino vote in the 2012 election. U.S. Congressman Charles Gonzales will keynote the event.
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National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development Gains New Leadership
Lawrence G. Miller, a long-time educator with extensive experience in community college administration, has been named director of The University of Texas at Austin’s National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD). NISOD is an outreach arm of the College of Education’s Higher Education Administration Program and Community College Leadership Program (CCLP).
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New Master’s Degree Trains Business Leaders in Understanding Human Behavior
A new Master of Arts degree at The University of Texas at Austin draws on the liberal arts, technology programs and other disciplines to train business and nonprofit leaders who want a better understanding of how human behavior and experience relates to today’s global marketplace.
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South Asia Institute to Partner with Women’s University in Pakistan
The South Asia Institute at The University of Texas at Austin has initiated a three-year partnership with Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, that will bring faculty members from FJWU to Austin in January to work on research and course development in liberal arts and communication.
