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Momentum builds at UT for sustainability initiatives
Last year’s UT Campus Sustainability Symposium bolstered growing support for sustainability-related projects across campus. This year’s event happening Friday, Sept. 23, showcases more innovative research in the field.
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The big question in sustainable development
Architecture Professor Steven Moore says affordable housing not only provides places for people to live, but can also contribute to climate protection.
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New Leadership Greets 2011-12 at McCombs School of Business
Three of the six academic departments at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business welcomed new chairs this year, effective Sept. 1. Combined they have published dozens of scholarly papers, served in numerous professional and academic groups and won top teaching awards.
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Gen. Robert Cone to Visit The University of Texas at Austin
For Planning Purposes Only EVENT: U.S. Army (4-star) Gen. Robert Cone, a University of Texas at Austin graduate, will visit campus to meet with Army ROTC cadets, Army Fellows and selected university officials.
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The University of Texas at Austin Hosts Campus Sustainability Symposium
The President’s Sustainability Steering Committee at The University of Texas at Austin will host the 2nd Annual UT Campus Sustainability Symposium on Friday, Sept. 23 in the Legislative Assembly Room of the Student Activity Center (SAC).
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Photographing a hidden world
Geologist Peter Flaig went to Antarctica in search of fossils. Surrounded by snow and ice, he and his colleagues discovered signs of a much warmer time.
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Captive Breeding Could Transform the Saltwater Aquarium Trade and Save Coral Reefs, Marine Biologists Say
Marine biologists at The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute are developing means to efficiently breed saltwater aquarium fish, seahorses, plankton and invertebrates in captivity in order to preserve the biologically rich ecosystems of the world’s coral reefs.
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Hogg Foundation Funds New Initiative to Provide Safer, More Effective Alternatives to Seclusion and Restraint
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at The University of Texas at Austin is funding a new statewide initiative to help residential treatment centers adopt safer, more effective tools than traumatic and potentially deadly seclusion and restraint practices commonly used to manage the behavior of children and youth.
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Faculty Awarded NIH Grants to Study Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative and Vascular Diseases
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded researchers at The University of Texas at Austin two highly competitive research grants to create novel therapeutics for treating heart disease as well as to develop technology that significantly reduces the time and costs required to test drugs for neurodegenerative disease.
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Brown Library Fortifies Latin American Collaborative Venture
A project aimed at building a major research tool for the global study of Latin America at The University of Texas at Austin has just gotten a significant new academic partner.
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University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center and National Science Foundation to Announce Major Grant to Advance Scientific Research
EVENT: News conference to announce National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded grant for The University of Texas at Austin WHEN: 1:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 22. Representatives of the media invited.
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Commentary Magazine Archive Donated to Ransom Center
Commentary magazine has donated its archive to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.
