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Origami meets public health with the oPAD
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Historical Survey Wiki Offers Austinites a Chance to Identify and Catalog Historic Sites

EVENT: Public announcement and launch of Austin’s Historical Survey Wiki WHEN: Noon, Monday, June 4 WHERE: Austin City Hall Council Chambers, 301 W. Second St., 2nd floor
Student Experience

The bands and more play on at the Cactus Cafe

This summer marks two years since the university announced its partnership with KUT 90.5 to program the iconic listening room in the Texas Union.
Research

Astronomers Probe ‘Evaporating’ Planet Around Nearby Star with Hobby-Eberly Telescope

Astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin and Wesleyan University have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at UT Austin’s McDonald Observatory to confirm that a Jupiter-size planet in a nearby solar system is dissolving, albeit excruciatingly slowly, because of interactions with its parent star. Their findings could help astronomers better understand star-planet interactions in other…
Research

Vertebrates Share Ancient Neural Circuitry for Complex Social Behaviors, Biologists Find

Humans, fish and frogs share neural circuits responsible for a diversity of social behavior, from flashy mating displays to aggression and monogamy, that have existed for more than 450 million years, biologists at The University of Texas at Austin found.
Student Experience

Commencement 2012 in photos

About 8,000 students graduated at the 129th spring commencement. View photo highlights from the ceremony with the fireworks as the grand finale.
Student Experience

New Study Confirms Benefits of a Research University to Student Success

About 89 percent of all undergraduate students and 94 percent of seniors participate in some type of research while at The University of Texas at Austin, according to a new study released this month from the Office of Assessment for the university’s Division of Student Affairs. Based on a survey of 13,120 undergraduates, the report…
Student Experience

Lumina Foundation Awards Grant to Support Innovations to Improve Student Success

The University of Texas at Austin, Public Agenda and innovative college and university leaders nationwide and across Texas have been awarded a $745,000 grant from Lumina Foundation to develop and implement cost-effective ways of increasing educational attainment and improving student success.
Research

Groundwater Depletion in Semiarid Regions of Texas and California Threatens U.S. Food Security

The nation’s food supply may be vulnerable to rapid groundwater depletion from irrigated agriculture, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere.
Research

50-Year Cholera Mystery Solved by Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin

For 50 years scientists have been unsure how the bacteria that gives humans cholera manages to resist one of our basic innate immune responses. That mystery has now been solved, thanks to research from biologists at The University of Texas at Austin.
Research

The geological fingerprint of war

Scientists find traces of the World War II D-Day invasion buried in the sands of Omaha Beach.
Student Experience

Commencement in highlights

About 8,000 students graduated at the 129th spring commencement. Watch video highlights from the ceremony with the fireworks as the grand finale.