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Study break doodles return
In fits of creativity, students studying at the Perry-Castañeda Library vent (and motivate) by drawing on the whiteboards throughout the library.
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The pride of the black jersey
As the Texas volleyball team heads to the NCAA Lexington Regional Friday and Saturday, Sydney Yogi is fulfilling the leadership role of the libero position.
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St. David’s Foundation Supports Health Care for the Underserved at the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin
The School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin will use a $3 million gift to permanently endow the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research in Underserved Populations (CHPR).
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Answering the call
With $3 million from the St. David’s Foundation, the School of Nursing will improve the health of underserved populations in central Texas and beyond.
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Science Study Break takes on “Feynman”
Watch nuclear engineer, librarian and comics writer Jim Ottaviani discuss his graphic novel biography of the Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist Richard Feynman.
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Researchers Receive $300,000 Award to Advance Technology With Potential to Predict Heart Attacks
A University of Texas at Austin engineering professor and a cardiologist from UT Medicine San Antonio have received a $300,000 award to develop a new imaging technique with the potential to predict, or even prevent, heart attacks.
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Make Room for Stampede: TACC Expands Data Center for New Supercomputer
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin today announced that it is expanding the center’s current high performance computing (HPC) data center to house the new Stampede supercomputer, which will be built in late 2012 and go into full production to the national science community in January 2013.
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National Weather Service Recognizes The University of Texas at Austin as StormReady
National Weather Service officials have recognized The University of Texas at Austin as a StormReady University.
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NASA Mission, Texas Astronomers Collaborate to Find Goldilocks Planet, Others
NASA has announced the discovery of the first planet located in the “habitable zone” around a star the “just-right” orbit that’s not too hot or too cold for water to exist in liquid form, making life as we know it possible. Astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory involved in this and…
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Re-inventing excellence: Heller and Goodenough
Engineers John Goodenough and Adam Heller, named as the university’s Inventors of the Year, discuss the importance of creativity and first-rate teaching.
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Architecture Students Help Design and Build School and Community Center in Honduras
Nineteen undergraduate students from the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin will visit Santa Rosa, Honduras, Jan. 2-8 to finish construction on a school and community center they helped design and build.
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New Round of Cancer Research Grants Attracts Rising Young Researcher to The University of Texas at Austin Faculty
With a $2 million startup grant from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), biologist Jason Upton will join the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in January to continue his efforts to improve existing cancer therapies and develop new ones.
