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Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison to Be Honored for Support of Science and Math Research and Education

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) will receive the 2011 Hall of Honor Award from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin on April 21 for her years of work to advance science and math research and education at the university and in Texas.
Academics

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University Partner to Promote Student Success

A new partnership between researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University has been created to help improve teaching and learning through educational innovation and technology.
Student Experience

ConocoPhillips Gives $1 Million in Departmental Grants to The University of Texas at Austin

ConocoPhillips has contributed $1 million to support academic programs at The University of Texas at Austin.
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University of Texas at Austin Textiles and Apparel Students Showcase Designs at 2011 Fashion Show “Innovation”

Event: Students from the Division of Textiles and Apparel in the School of Human Ecology at The University of Texas at Austin will debut their original fashion designs at the annual Fashion Show titled “Innova
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Tower shines orange tonight

The Tower lights with a No. 1 celebrate the School of Law’s national championships at trial advocacy and moot court competitions.
Campus

Leading Expert Releases Groundbreaking Book on Self Kindness, Mindfulness

The leading international expert on self-compassion, University of Texas at Austin educational psychologist Kristin Neff, has released a new book on how to reduce insecurity, anxiety and self-criticism and be kinder to yourself.
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Radio-Television-Film Professor Howard Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

Don Howard, assistant professor of radio-TV-film at The University of Texas at Austin, has won a Guggenheim Fellowship Award on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
Academics

Texas Center for Education Policy Awarded $400,000 Grant for Grow-Your-Own Teacher Initiative

The University of Texas at Austin, the Texas Center for Education Policy (TCEP) and the National Latino Education Research and Policy project have received a $400,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to spur the development of a community-based, university-connected, Grow-Your-Own Teacher Initiative in five states around the country.
Student Experience

Washington Post Sports Columnist to Deliver Inaugural Frank Deford Lecture on Sports Journalism

Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins will deliver the inaugural Frank Deford Lecture in Sports Journalism, a speech titled “Why Games Matter: Stories We Tell Ourselves about Ourselves,” at 4 p.m., April 20 in the Student Activity Center auditorium at The University of Texas at Austin.
Research

When climate change isn’t the only answer

Biologist Mike Singer says climate scientists can sometimes go wrong when they try too hard to attribute local effects to global climate change.
Campus

A weekend with Dostoevsky

The College of Natural Sciences’ Dr. David Laude shares how the humanities shape his approach to life and the advice he now gives to students.
Campus

Briscoe Center Opens “Always Hitting a Nerve,” Exhibit of Ben Sargent’s Cartoons

“Always Hitting a Nerve: Editorial Cartoons by Ben Sargent,” a retrospective exhibit of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning Austin American-Statesman cartoonist’s 35-year career, opens April 20 at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. The exhibit is drawn from the Ben Sargent Collection, which Sargent and the Austin American Statesman donated to the Briscoe Center.