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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…
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Author, Professor to Analyze What the Language You Use Really Says About You
Event: The Austin Forum on Science, Technology and Society will host: “How Our Words Reflect Who We Are” presented by James W. Pennebaker, Liberal Arts Foundation Centennial Professor, Department Chair of the Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin.
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University of Texas at Austin Honors World-Changing Achievements of Two Faculty Inventors
Event: The first University of Texas at Austin Inventor of the Year Awards, honoring professors John Goodenough and Adam Heller.
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Tower shines orange this weekend
To celebrate the achievements of the fall graduates of the class of 2011, the Tower will shine orange with the number “11” for the evenings of Dec. 3 and 4.
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Tower shines orange tonight
The Tower lights on the evening of Friday, Dec. 2 will recognize Professor William Lewis, who will be named to a prestigious French order.
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Music alumnus pens New York Times column on AIDS cure
From a music career to CEO of an AIDS research nonprofit, alumnus Kevin Robert Frost describes his journey in a recent column for The New York Times.
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School of Architecture Undergraduate Program Ranked Second Nationally
The undergraduate program in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin was ranked 2nd in the nation for 2012, and its graduate program was ranked 11th by DesignIntelligence, a journal that produces the only national rankings for accredited bachelor’s and master’s programs in architecture in the United States.
