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Doomsday Scenarios Make Better Fiction Than Science, Says Researcher Karl Butzer

For more than 50 years Karl Butzer, a renowned environmental archaeologist at The University of Texas at Austin, has trekked across continents, sifted through countless excavations and pored over collections in some of the world’s greatest libraries and museums in a quest to better understand hum
Campus

UT Game Changers: Elizabeth Engelhardt, Southern Food Matters

A southern meal of fried chicken or barbecue, homegrown tomatoes, a mess of greens, and peaches. Should they be subjects of academic research? Does southern food matter?
Academics

The University of Texas at Austin to Host Course Transformation Summit

Representatives from The University of Texas at Austin will present their first-year results of their pilot project to transform lower-division courses at an international higher education summit on Wednesday, June 20.
Campus

Broadway Talents Shine at Texas Musical Theatre Workshop

The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Texas State University-San Marcos, is offering the inaugural Texas Musical Theatre Workshop, a pre-collegiate summer intensive for high school students exploring a potential career in musical theater June 10-30.
Student Experience

University of Texas Doctoral Candidate Awarded Moore Fellowship to Study Forced Relocation

The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health has awarded the $20,000 Harry E. and Bernice M. Moore Fellowship to Esther Sullivan, a doctoral candidate in sociology from The University of Texas at Austin.
Research

Computer Science Camp is Geared to Girls

Event: First Bytes, An Innovative Summer Program in Computer Science to Promote Interest in Technology in Teenage Girls When: June 1722, various times
Health & Medicine

Health Care Policy Expert Guide

University of Texas at Austin experts available to comment on health care policy and the Affordable Care Act
Research

Essmart Global Wins Grand Prize in 2012 Dell Social Innovation Challenge

Young social innovators convened in Austin during the past several days as part of the Dell Social Innovation Challenge (DSIC), the flagship social entrepreneurship initiative of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. At last night’s awards ceremony held at…
Student Experience

Dean of Undergraduate Studies to Return to Full-Time Teaching

Paul Woodruff, inaugural dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies since 2006, announced this week that he plans to step down from his post, effective Aug. 31. An interim dean will be named in the coming weeks, and a national search will be held for a new dean.
Research

Alcohol Abuse Might Be the Cause Rather than the Effect of Social Isolation and Poor Grades Among Teenagers, Study Shows

Rather than gaining “liquid courage” to let loose with friends, teenage drinkers are more likely to feel like social outcasts, according to a new sociology study from The University of Texas at Austin.
Health & Medicine

Hogg Foundation Awards $326,436 in Grants to Train Mental Health Policy Fellows in Texas

Five recent graduates of law, social work, public policy or other graduate programs will receive intensive training, education and experience in mental health advocacy and policy work through the Hogg Mental Health Policy Fellow Grants project.
Health & Medicine

The Center for Students in Recovery Receives National Award for Groundbreaking Drug and Alcohol Recovery Initiatives

The American College Health Association recently honored the Center for Students in Recovery (CSR) with the “Best Practices in College Health” Award for 2012. CSR supports students at The University of Texas at Austin who have alcoholism and other drug addictions by offering them a pathway to recovery and academic achievement. The American College Health…