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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.
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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.
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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.
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Student perspectives: Egypt unrest
The world was watching as political protests erupted in Egypt, and for three UT students with close connections to the country, the uprising was personal.
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“Friending” freedom
Anita Husen is a graduate student in Arabic Studies. She writes about the role Egyptian youth and social networks played during the riots.
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All against one
Hadiel Nawaz is a psychology junior who grew up in Alexandria and Cairo. She said the news of Mubarak’s resignation filled her with “a myriad of emotions.”
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Witness to a revolution
Senior Jordan Bellquist was studying abroad in Alexandria, Egypt when the riots broke out.
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UT Students Celebrate National Engineers Week with Free and Quirky Competitions
Engineers may be known for excelling in math and science, but students at the Cockrell School of Engineering are proving they also have singing and dancing skills, among other things, that could impress even “American Idol” judges.
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Professor Emeritus Norval Glenn, Leading Scholar of Sociology, Dies at 77
Norval D. Glenn, professor emeritus of sociology, who taught for 47 years at The University of Texas at Austin, died Feb. 15 after a two-year battle with myelodysplastic syndrome, a form of blood cancer. He was 77 years old.
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Heman Sweatt’s relatives honor his legacy
Members of Heman Marion Sweatt’s family share memories of the civil rights figure who was the first African American to integrate the School of Law.
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Hogg Foundation Receives Federal Grant to Develop a National Model for Addressing Cultural, Language Disparities in Integrated Health Care
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health to create a national model to improve integrated health care for racial and ethnic minorities and people who speak languages other than English.
