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Reporting Texas Gives News Media Stories on Under-Reported Topics While Honing Students’ Reporting and Digital Media Skills
Reporting Texas, a digital media initiative in the School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin, is offering its coverage of stories about Central Texas and beyond to news organizations that may not have the time or resources to cover, while teaching students the process of producing high-quality content in a digital environment.
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Focusing the university’s message
Learn about the university’s brand positioning and our goal of creating a new vision of higher education.
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Doing Well and Doing Good: Hispanic Leadership Summit Examines Business Ethics
Event:Third Annual Hispanic Leadership Summit, presented by ATandT When: Noon – 6 p.m., April 1 Where: Etter-Harbin Alumni Center
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Think Globally, But Act Locally When Studying Plants, Animals, Global Warming, Researchers Advise
Global warming is clearly affecting plants and animals, but we should not try to tease apart the specific contribution of greenhouse gas driven climate change to extinctions or declines of species at local scales, biologists from The University of Texas at Austin advise.
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Two MacArthur fellows, one signature class
In a Maya signature class, first-year students get a rare learning experience: to be taught by not one, but two of the university’s MacArthur fellows.
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University of Texas at Austin Students Host Legislative Day
Hundreds of University of Texas at Austin students are expected to descend upon the State Capitol Tuesday, March 22 to kick off the Invest in Texas Legislative Day 2011.
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Plan II celebrates 75 years of teaching humanities, sciences
Plan II is more than a curriculum track. It’s a community, says the director. The honors program celebrates its 75th anniversary with an alumni reunion March 25-26.
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Two Who Exposed Federal Judge for Sexual Misconduct to Keynote Conference on Sexual Harassment
Event: Conference on Sexual Harassment, presented by Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Free and open to the public. When: Wednesday, March 23, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., keynote begins 5 p.m., with reception following
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Energy Experts Meet at The University of Texas at Austin to Debate Economics of Electricity Generation, March 24
The Energy Management and Innovation Center (EMIC) at The University of Texas at Austin hosts a forum for energy practitioners, policy-makers and academics on Thursday, March 24, to examine the relative costs of electricity generation, including solar, nuclear, coal, gas and wind.
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Vice President Gregory J. Vincent to Receive PVIL Lifetime Achievement Award
Gregory J. Vincent, vice president for diversity and community engagement at The University of Texas at Austin, will receive an honorary Prairie View Interscholastic League Coaches Association (PVILCA) Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding work in helping to preserve the history of the organization and its members.
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Turning difficult dialogues into constructive communication
Difficult Dialogues courses offer just as much of a learning experience to the students as they do to the faculty that teach them. Participate in a Difficult Dialogues public forum on March 29 with Lawrence Wright, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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Stanford president admires IE’s diversity
John Hennessy, president of Stanford University, lauds the diversity of the Intellectual Entrepreneurship initiative.




