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Texas Astronomers Discuss Weighing Heaviest Known Black Hole; Reporters May Participate Remotely in Live Webcast from Seattle
Event: University of Texas at Austin Astronomy Professor Karl Gebhardt and graduate student Jeremy Murphy will give a press briefing live from the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle, describing how they weighed the heaviest known nearby black hole
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School of Information Receives $800,000 Gift To Establish Graduate Endowment
The School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin has received $800,000 from the estate of Thais Bullard, a longtime Austin resident and visiting fellow at the school in the 1990s.
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Experts Offer Analysis of Issues Facing 82nd Texas State Legislative Session
January 11 marks the beginning of the 82nd Texas State Legislature. While the state budget and redistricting are set to be the most pressing issues that the legislature will tackle, a myriad of other issues are likely to come before the session. Faculty experts from The University of Texas at Austin are available to discuss…
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Dr. Christine Schmidt and her research team engineer ways to speed nerve regeneration and recovery after injury
In an ad during the 2000 Super Bowl, the late actor Christopher Reeve is shown sitting at an award ceremony for research breakthroughs in spinal cord injuries.
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New Web site makes history with history
The Department of History debuts Not Even Past to bring stories, video interviews, podcasts and even free virtual classes to history buffs of all ages.
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National Education Leaders to Discuss Education Productivity at Austin Forum
Event: Inaugural Forum on Productivity in Public Education, hosted by The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Public School Initiatives and the newly formed Institute for Productivity in Education.
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Being Poor Can Suppress Children’s Genetic Potentials
Growing up poor can suppress a child’s genetic potential to excel cognitively even before the age of 2, according to research from psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin.
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University of Texas at Austin Reaches Out to History Buffs Online
Historians at The University of Texas at Austin have introduced a first-of-its-kind Web site to help the public learn more about Texas, American and world history.
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Ransom Center Receives Grant to Catalog Spanish Comedias Sueltas
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has received $137,015 from the Council on Library and Information Resources Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives for “Revealing Texas Collections of Comedias Sueltas.”
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Professor Tom Edgar Awarded Chemical Engineering’s Top Service Honor
Tom Edgar, professor of chemical engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, accepted the F. J. and Dorothy Van Antwerpen Award for Service from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) recently at the association’s annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Thirteen rules for school
What do you need to know about your first day of college classes? Get that advice and more from Dr. David Laude in the College of Natural Sciences.
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W Austin Hotel to Exhibit Contemporary Works from The University of Texas at Austin’s Visual Arts Center
Contemporary art exhibitions from the Visual Arts Center’s (VAC) Vaulted Gallery at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as works by faculty and alumni from the College of Fine Arts’ Department of Art and Art History, will be displayed in the recently opened W Austin Hotel through a partnership among the VAC, Stratus…
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