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Research Aims to Reduce Teen Pregnancy Among Latinos

Latina teens would benefit from expanded sexual education programs in schools and increased flexibility in education beyond high school to prevent unplanned pregnancies, according to a report by social scientists at the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
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UT Austin Villa Wins World RoboCup Championships

UT Austin Villa, a team of programmers led by University of Texas at Austin computer scientists Peter Stone and Patrick MacAlpine, has won the 2011 RoboCupSoccer championships in the 3-D simulation division.
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Conservation Work Begins on Dresses From “Gone With The Wind”
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iGive volunteer program attracts dedicated students

During the 2010-2011 school year, 90 School of Information students donated 3,000 volunteer hours to various nonprofits, as part of the school’s iGive program. In their own words, two students describe the experience.
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Brownson Named Associate Vice President for Student Affairs

Dr. Chris Brownson, director of the Counseling and Mental Health Center at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named associate vice president for student affairs, effective Sept. 1.
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Longtime Health Services Director Jeanne Carpenter to Retire

After 37 years of service to The University of Texas at Austin, Jeanne D. Carpenter will retire as University Health Services director and associate vice president for student affairs effective Sept. 1.
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The dangers of cannibalism

Biochemistry Professor Andy Ellington writes about cannibalism, prions, mad cow disease and yet one more way in which civilization may be “hosed.”
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Meet a Forty Acres Scholar: Anne Alexander

Ten new Longhorns will start the fall semester as Forty Acres Scholars. In this student profile, get to know Anne Alexander from Stratford High School in Houston, Texas.
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Meet a Forty Acres Scholar: Wesley Howard

Ten new Longhorns will start the fall semester as Forty Acres Scholars. In this student profile, get to know Wesley Howard from Center High School in Center, Texas.
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Ransom Center Exhibition Explores Greenwich Village Bohemian Culture Through Bookshop Door

The Harry Ransom Center’s exhibition “The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 19201925” showcases how one artifact, in this case a door from a Greenwich Village bookshop in the 1920s, can serve as a starting point to reconstruct the history of a time and place.
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Ransom Center Exhibition Explores Forces Behind Censorship in United States Between Two World Wars

“Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored,” an exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, reveals the rarely seen “machinery” of censorship in the United States between the two world wars.
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Web Exhibition Explores History, Connections Between Visitors to Greenwich Village Bookshop

The Harry Ransom Center’s Web exhibition “The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 19201925” uses a door from a bookshop owned by Frank Shay in Greenwich Village in the early 1920s as an entryway into the lives, careers and relationships of New York bohemians of that era.