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Sembradores de Austin Valentine’s Day Gala Helps Raise Scholarship Funds

The annual Sembradores de Austin “Valentine’s Day Gala” will be held in the Omni Hotel South Park in Austin on Feb. 12 to raise funds for a scholarship program for underprivileged first-generation students at The University of Texas at Austin and other universities in the Austin area.
Research

Planning for our future now

Jim Walker, director of sustainability for the university, kicks off the forthcoming Know series on multidisciplinary perspectives on sustainability.
Research

Harnessing the Power of Sunlight

Chemist Allen Bard looks to harness the power of sunlight to produce fuels that can substitute for oil.
Academics

The University of Texas at Austin Announces Recipients of Presidential Citation Award

The University of Texas at Austin has selected U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, philanthropists Joe and Teresa Long, university Senior Vice President Shirley Bird Perry and Ransom Center Director Tom Staley to receive the prestigious Presidential Citation for 2010.
Student Experience

The cat’s out of the classroom

Students are joining the campaign to make Austin a “no-kill” city for homeless animals — and honing their writing skills in the process.
Research

Sunlight to clean hydrogen fuel

Raymond Orbach, director of the Energy Institute, talks up new research from the “Fuel to Sunlight” team on synthetic photosynthesis.
Campus

Ransom Center Hosts Variety of Programs in February

EVENT: The Harry Ransom Center hosts public programs. WHEN: Various dates throughout February. WHERE: Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, 21st and Guadalupe streets.
Academics

Texas Center for Education Policy Hosts Educational Reform Conference, Feb. 9

The Texas Center for Education Policy (TCEP) will host its annual state conference, “Leading the Nation: A Texas Retrospective on Educational Reform” on Feb. 9 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Austin Hilton downtown.
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Blanton Museum of Art Receives $150,000 from Burdine Johnson Foundation

The Burdine Johnson Foundation has given the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin a five-year, $150,000 grant to support the museum’s kindergarten through 12th grade initiatives, including school tours and the Art Central program, which annually serves about 11,000 students from more than 125 schools.
Research

University Reaches Out to Business Audience With New Online Publication, Texas Enterprise

Texas Enterprise, a new online publication from The University of Texas at Austin that features research insights and expert opinions touching on national and global business and public policy issues, is part of an ongoing effort to make the university’s intellectual capital more accessible and relevant to the outside world.
Research

Securing the cloud

Michael Walfish, assistant professor of computer science, is working to secure the future of cloud computing.
Campus

Ransom Center Receives $10,000 Grant To Catalog Collection of Science Materials

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $10,000 grant from the Friends of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics to rehouse and rearrange its holdings of the Herschel family papers and to create an online finding…