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Tower shines orange tonight

The Tower lights honor the McCombs School of Business students who won the GE Experienced Commercial Leadership Program Case Competition.
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Visual Arts Center Presents “The Working Homeless” Reception and Panel Discussion, Feb. 25

Event: “The Working Homeless” will be in the Center Space Gallery of the Visual Arts Center (VAC) in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin, Feb
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Fine Arts Library Hosts Trailer Ceramics Show

The Artstream Ceramic Library, a unique art exhibition featuring the work of 13 nationally recognized ceramic potters, will be hosted by the Fine Arts Library at The University of Texas at Austin through Thursday, March 31.
Research

Texas Leafcutter Ants Aided, But Also Limited, By Cold Tolerant Fungus Crops, Research Shows

Texas leafcutter ants farm crops of fungus that evolved cold tolerance to Texas winters, just as northern farmers cultivate cold weather crops, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin show in a new paper published in the journal PNAS Early Edition.
Campus

Inside Haiti: A photographer’s vision

For more than 20 years, photojournalism alumna Maggie Steber has documented Haiti’s people, history and culture.
Research

Heman Sweatt Symposium Founders Discuss Evolution of Campus Tradition

Event: The monthly speaker series of the 25th annual Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights at The University of Texas at Austin presents two former university administrators, Drs.
Academics

New Book Aims to Train Urban Educators

Teachers and administrators at The University of Texas Elementary School have completed a new book titled “Teaching to the Spirit of Every Child: Lessons Learned in Urban Education,” and are ready to disseminate it widely to educators across Texas.
Research

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Discusses Katrina, Natural Disasters

Event: Lozano Long Conference “From Natural Events to Social Disasters in the Circum-Caribbean.” Free and open to the public. When: Feb. 23-25
Research

Vocal Media Wins Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition

Vocal Media, a company that uses the dead-air time in international phone calls to advertise to U.S. immigrant populations, won the Texas round of the Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition (TVLIC) Feb. 16.
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Annual Nilsson Drama Lecture Considers “Threepenny”

The 6th annual David O. Nilsson Lecture in Contemporary Drama returns to the stage with a conversation about Brecht and Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera” at 6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 24 in the Winship Drama Building, Room 2.112 on The University of Texas at Austin campus.
Research

Sustainable building in a hot and humid climate

The School of Architecture’s Thermal Lab, an experimental facility, allows for the testing of new building components while taking the Central Texas climate into consideration.
Research

Get a peek at the Giant Magellan Telescope

The University of Texas at Austin is part of a group of institutions working together to build the Giant Magellan Telescope. See the telescope in action in this animation.