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Faculty Members Named to Prestigious Academy of Distinguished Teachers

Seven faculty members have been named to the prestigious Academy of Distinguished Teachers at The University of Texas at Austin, Steven W. Leslie, executive vice president and provost, has announced.

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Opening of New Health IT Learning Center at The University of Texas at Austin

Event: Opening of the new Health Information Technology Learning Center in the Norman Hackerman Building When: 46 p.m., June 6 Where: Norman Hackerman Building, 100 East 24th St., The University of Texas at Austin campus

Academics

Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowships Awarded to Four Faculty Members for Excellence

Four faculty members at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to hold a Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship during the 2011-12 fall semester.

Student Experience

Leslie Cedar Named Executive Director and CEO of Texas Exes

Leslie Cedar has been named the new executive director and CEO of Texas Exes, the alumni association for The University of Texas at Austin. Cedar will succeed Jim Boon, who announced last July that he would step down after 16 years to lead the newly formed Texas Exes Scholarship Foundation.

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Global Venture Labs Investment Competition Winners to Ring NASDAQ Closing Bell June 3

Event: TNG Pharmaceuticals, winner of the 2011 Global Venture Labs Investment Competition, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square Friday, June 3, to ring the closing bell.

Health & Medicine

The air inside

Professor Richard Corsi, an indoor air quality expert, shares why common household products could be among the worst things in your home.

Campus

Got it in writing: A surprising Bronze Age discovery

Greek scholar Cynthia Shelmerdine describes a clay tablet from more than 3,000 years ago as the most exciting find of her career.

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Steel Named Chair of Department of Geological Sciences

Ron Steel, professor and the Morgan Davis Centennial Chair in the Jackson School of Geosciences, has been named chair of the Department of Geological Sciences in the Jackson School at The University of Texas at Austin starting Aug. 1.

Student Experience

To the Class of 2011: “Now you will shape the world”

Read and watch U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s address at the university’s 128th spring commencement Saturday, May 21.

Student Experience

In the Know

The June 1 roundup of campus kudos and press mentions.

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New Map Reveals Giant Fjords Beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet

Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high-resolution topographic map of one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora Subglacial Basin, an immense ice-buried lowland in East Antarctica larger than Texas.

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