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Quilts offer help for healing

The Reflections on 9/11 Quilt Collection at the Briscoe Center for American History features artistic messages of hope, sympathy, love and peace.
Research

Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly A Hybrid Species Of Two Other Swallowtails, Scientists Find

Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly species that evolved when two other species of swallowtails hybridized long ago, a rarity in the animal world, biologists from The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University have found.
Student Experience

President Powers to Deliver State of the University Address Sept. 14 at The University of Texas at Austin

William Powers Jr., president of The University of Texas at Austin, will deliver his sixth State of the University Address at 4 p.m., Sept. 14, providing a report on ongoing and new initiatives of the university’s administration.
Research

University of Texas at Austin and Shell to Announce New Research Partnership

For Planning Purposes Only: Information Embargoed Until Sept. 13 Event: Announcement and signing of new research agreement between Shell and The University of Texas at Austin.
Student Experience

Tower lights darken through the weekend

The Tower will be darkened for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 from midnight Saturday until sunrise Sunday and from dusk Sunday until sunrise Monday.
Research

Engineering, Natural Sciences Faculty Receive NSF Grant to Study Materials Critical for New Technologies

Faculty at The University of Texas at Austin have been awarded a nearly $3 million competitive grant from the National Science Foundation to study materials that are vital to the development of a broad range of technologies, including everything from cell phones to large-scale energy storage.
Research

The changing policy landscape after 9/11

Graduate students offer their perspectives on how policy issues such as immigration and national security have evolved over the last decade.
Campus

Ransom Center Hosts Variety of Programs in September

Event: The Harry Ransom Center hosts public programs.
Research

Wildfire Victims Offered Guidance on Salvaging Records

Conservators in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin are hosting a free workshop from 2-5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11, at the School of Information, 1616 Guadalupe St., to help wildfire victims salvage some of their personal records that have been damaged by fire or water.
Health & Medicine

Public Health Campaigns Should De-stigmatize Low Health Literacy

When creating public health campaigns researchers and public policy makers should include messages to combat the perception that low health literacy equates to low intelligence, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.
Research

UT’s LBJ School to Host ‘Conversation 9/11: A Decade After, Looking Forward’ on Friday, Sept. 9 Featuring National Security, Law, Terrorism and Government Experts

A decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, many questions are still left unanswered. Are we safer than we were a decade ago? Are we “winning” the so-called “war on terror?” Has the cost of security been worth the incursions into our privacy and even our civil liberties? Was Sept. 11 a massive…
Student Experience

Center for Women’s and Gender Studies Receives $100,200 Embrey Grant

The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) at The University of Texas at Austin has received a three-year, $100,200 grant from the Embrey Family Foundation to bring the NEW Leadership summer institute to campus.