All News
-
Challenging a woman’s role in medicine
Alumna Sue Ellen Young Knolle was determined to pursue medical school after graduating from UT in the ’60s, despite it not being a traditional path for women at the time.
-
Females Can Place Limits on Evolution of Attractive Features in Males, Research Shows
Female cognitive ability can limit how melodious or handsome males become over evolutionary time, biologists from The University of Texas at Austin, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have observed.
-
Life-saving solutions for surgeries
For one professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, spending time crunching numbers is leading to technologies that could save lives. Dr. Thomas Hughes and his colleagues have pioneered patient-specific 3-D models of blood flow through the heart and blood vessels that could help guide best practices for cardiologists.
-
Hirst Wins Research Award for Paper that Informed 2011 Accounting Standards Rule Change
Eric Hirst, the John Arch White Professor of Business at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, will be honored Aug. 9 with the Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award at the American Accounting Association’s (AAA) annual meeting in Denver.
-
Hogg Foundation and St. Luke’s Join Forces to Fund Children’s Mental Health Training for Houston Adults
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health and St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities together are funding four children’s mental health training programs for adults who work with children and youth in the Houston area but aren’t mental health professionals.
-
School of Information Receives $60,000 from Tocker Foundation to Advance Four Strategic Areas of Information Science
The School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin has received $60,000 from the Tocker Foundation to create the Tocker Fellows program for visiting scholars in library and information science.
-
Scientist to Speak on Predictive Science
What: The Austin Forum on Science, Technology and Society
-
Papers of Judge Filemon B. Vela Donated to the Benson Latin American Collection
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas Libraries announces the opening of the personal archive of noted jurist, civic leader and education advocate
-
“The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” Collection Donated to Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired a collection of materials from husband-wife duo actress Carlin Glynn and writer and director Peter Masterson relating to their careers and their work on the original Broadway production and film of “The Best Little Whorehouse in…
-
3-D Projection on University’s Tower Scheduled for Aug. 2 and 3
Event: A video production company will use the Tower at The University of Texas at Austin to film public service messages that will air on the Longhorn Network when it debuts Aug. 26.
-
Word Choice Detects Everything from Love to Lies to Leadership, According to Psychology Research
The words people use are like fingerprints that can reveal their relationships, honesty or their status in a group, according to research by University of Texas at Austin social psychologist James W. Pennebaker.
-
Managing Communication Around Cancer Diagnosis Gives Patients Sense of Control in an Otherwise Uncontrollable Situation
Asserting control over how to communicate — or not communicate — about their illness helps cancer patients overcome feelings of helplessness in a traumatic situation, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.
