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Six Assistant Professors Win CAREER Awards from National Science Foundation

Six assistant professors at The University of Texas at Austin received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards totaling nearly $3 million from the National Science Foundation.
Student Experience

House Speaker Joe Straus to speak with University of Texas at Austin Students

Event: Texas House of Representatives Speaker Joe Straus will appear on The University of Texas at Austin campus as part of the Texas Politics Speaker Series sponsored by the Texas Politics Project.
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University of Texas at Austin Dedicates Lonestar 4 Supercomputer for Open Science Community

Event: University of Texas at Austin President William Powers Jr., Michael Dell, Dr. Jay Boisseau and Dr. Karl Schulz will dedicate Lonestar 4, the newest supercomputer at The University of Texas at Austin.
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The cost of political speech

What went on and who said what at the latest Free Speech Dialogue, a semesterly panel discussion that addresses free speech controversies.
Student Experience

Men’s Basketball Coach Rick Barnes to Receive USBWA’s Good Guy Award

University of Texas at Austin men’s basketball head coach Rick Barnes has been selected to receive the Good Guy Award from the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA). The award honors both coaching excellence and cooperation with the news media.
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Conference to Explore How Americans Should Interpret their Constitution in the Future, April 1-2

The University of Texas School of Law, in association with the American Constitutional Society and the Open Society Institute, will host a conference on “The Future of Equality” in the School of Law’s Jeffers Courtroom on April 1-2.
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Engineering Professor Provides Senate Committee with Seven Policy Recommendations on the Water-Energy Nexus

Water and energy are directly related and policies that promote energy conservation also achieve water conservation and vice versa, Cockrell School of Engineering Professor Michael Webber told a U.S. Senate Committee March 31.
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$250,000 Hertz Fellowship Awarded to Chemical Engineering Student

Katie Maass, a senior chemical engineering student in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a five-year $250,000 Hertz Foundation Fellowship to pursue graduate research that will fight cancer and improve drug delivery.
Academics

LBJ School of Public Affairs to Generate First Texas Statewide Measure of Teacher Effectiveness

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has contracted with The University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs to develop a comprehensive metric that measures a teacher’s effect on student achievement under the direction of the school’s Project on Educator Effectiveness and Quality (PEEQ).
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Harry Edwards, Author of “The Revolt of the Black Athlete,” To Speak April 7

Event: Harry Edwards, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, will deliver the keynote speech at the McGarr Symposium on Sport
Academics

Friends of Subiendo Academy Will Expand Participation in Leadership Training Program for High School Students

The success last summer of a pilot program to train the next generation of Texas leaders to deal with challenges facing the state’s ethnically diverse population has drawn new supporters helping to greatly expand the number of high school students who can be accepted this year into the prestigious Subiendo Academy for Rising Leaders.
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Ransom Center Hosts Variety of Programs in April, from Woodward and Bernstein to U.S. Poet Laureate

EVENT: The Harry Ransom Center hosts public programs. WHEN: Various dates throughout April.