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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.
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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

Event: Ceremony and reception honoring the St. David’s Foundation’s $3 million gift to the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research in Underserved Populations (St. David’s CHPR) at the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Wells Fargo Provides Grant to University of Texas for Clean Energy Business Ventures

As part of its national environmental grant program, Wells Fargo today announced that it has provided a $125,000 grant to the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin that will fund a new Clean Energy track within the 2012 Global Venture Labs Investment Competition (GVLIC).
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Reporting China

Sixteen students spent four weeks in China navigating the ins and outs of international reporting. View a selection of photographs taken during their time studying abroad.
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Pair of Black Holes ‘Weigh In’ at 10 Billion Suns, the Most Massive Yet

A team of astronomers including Karl Gebhardt and graduate student Jeremy Murphy of The University of Texas at Austin have discovered the most massive black holes to date two monsters weighing as much as 10 billion suns and threatening to consume anything, even light, within a region five times the size of our solar system.
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Harrington Fellows Bring World-Changing Ideas to The University of Texas at Austin

A biomedical engineer hoping to grow human organs, a psychologist examining why employees sometimes act in ways that destroy economic value, a mathematician exploring the limits of modern signal acquisition techniques, and a historian studying the intersections among Jewish, Greek, Roman and Christian traditions are spending much of this year at The University of Texas…