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UT System Board of Regents Honors Faculty Members for Outstanding Teaching
Twenty-seven faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin will receive the 2012 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, the UT System Board of Regents’ highest teaching honor, which recognizes extraordinary educators from system institutions.
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Common Antifungal Drug Decreases Tumor Growth and Shows Promise as Cancer Therapy
An inexpensive antifungal drug, thiabendazole, slows tumor growth and shows promise as a chemotherapy for cancer. Scientists in the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin made this discovery by exploiting the evolutionary relatedness of yeast, frogs, mice and humans.
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University of Texas at Austin Ranked No. 35 Among World Universities
The University of Texas of Austin is No. 35 in the world, according to the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) compiled by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Mooov-In at The University of Texas at Austin Welcomes Students to Campus Residence Halls
University officials will welcome incoming students and their parents at the annual Mooov-In event while hundreds of volunteers help the students move into campus residence halls.
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Fly Over the Forty Acres
http://youtu.be/itO9IXiH4Nk Take an aerial view of the Forty Acres in this helicopter flyover of campus. Go to YouTube to share the video http://youtu.be/itO9IXiH4Nk.
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University Study Identifies Growth Path For Hispanic-Owned Small Businesses in Texas
The two most critical challenges for Hispanic-owned businesses to grow are overcoming a lack of training in management and communication skills and gaining better access to markets, according to new research of Hispanic-owned businesses in Texas from The University of Texas at Austin. The study provides a fresh look at the challenges these mostly small…
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Government Professor to Examine Source of Violence and Urge Diplomacy in Egypt
Jason Brownlee, associate professor in the Departments of Government and Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $109,484 grant to examine peace-building efforts in Egypt. The funding, provided by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), will enable Brownlee to determine whether the rise in Egypt’s anti-Coptic violence comes…
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Hands On and Horns Up: Research is Key to Academic Success
In this video, College of Liberal Arts student Maggie Gunn talks about research opportunities at UT.
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Foundations of Modern Cartography Now Visible Online and in Detail
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has introduced an online database for its entire Kraus map collection. The 36map collection, acquired in 1969 by Harry Ransom from the New York antiquarian dealer Hans P. Kraus, features a wide range of individual maps of Europe…
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Business, Military, Society To Benefit if Supreme Court Upholds UT Admissions Policy
Retired generals, Fortune 500 corporations and states across our country joined with higher education leaders, University of Texas alumni, social scientists, civil rights groups, students and the United States government Monday in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the university’s narrowly tailored use of race as one, non-predominant factor in its admissions decisions.
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Experts to Examine University of Texas Hydraulic Fracturing Study
Three nationally renowned leaders in science, public service and higher education have agreed to review a recent study on hydraulic fracturing of shale gas led by University of Texas at Austin professor Charles Groat. Steven Leslie, the university’s executive vice president and provost, has convened the panel to review the scientific credibility of the report…
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University of Texas Receives Substantial Amicus Support in Supreme Court Case
Numerous amicus briefs are being filed with the United States Supreme Court today in support of The University of Texas at Austin’s holistic admissions process, which looks at an applicant’s race and ethnicity among many other factors.
