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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.
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Thousands of Students Expected to Spruce up Austin Neighborhood

More than 1,500 University of Texas at Austin student volunteers are expected to participate in Project 2011, one of the largest one-day student- and community-run service events in the nation, on Saturday, Feb. 26. The event begins at Lanier High School at 8:30 a.m. with a welcome program that includes Representative Lloyd Doggett and Student…
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Hutchison to Receive Inaugural Annette Strauss Texas Leadership Award Feb. 22

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) will receive the inaugural Annette Strauss Institute’s Texas Leadership Award in recognition of her nearly four decades of civic leadership at the state and national level.
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Tower shines orange tonight

The Tower lights recognize the McCombs School of Business MBA students who won the Ross Energy Club Renewable Energy National Case Challenge.
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Vice President Gregory J. Vincent elected to NADOHE board

Dr. Gregory J. Vincent, vice president for diversity and community engagement at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE), filling a term through 2012.