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Study break doodles

During finals week, students blow off steam in fits of both visual and rhetorical creativity on the whiteboards throughout Perry-Castañeda Library.

Student Experience

Powered by the sun and student creativity

Meet the University of Texas Solar Vehicles Team, a student club on campus that designs, builds, tests and races cars powered by the sun.

Research

Plants ‘Remember’ Winter to Bloom in Spring With Help of Special Molecule

The role a key molecule plays in a plant’s ability to remember winter, and therefore bloom in the spring, has been identified by University of Texas at Austin scientists.

Student Experience

Graduate School celebrates 100 years

The Graduate School marks its 100th anniversary this year.

Research

Buyer beware

Two university researchers warn shoppers to beware of gifts that cause them to feel uncomfortable about their own identity.

Student Experience

Historian examines how the holiday exists at the intersection of the sacred, secular and profane

Campus

Christmas in America

Christmas in one way or another taps into our national consciousness, says Penne Restad, senior lecturer in the Department of History.

Student Experience

Opportunities for students roundup

Two opportunities for students have come across the Know desk recently: A new government internship Web site and a fellowship opportunity for doctoral students.

Research

Nobel Prize Winner to Discuss Opportunities and Challenges of $3 Billion Cancer Institute

Event: Dr. Alfred Gilman, chief scientific officer of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), will discuss the institute’s challenges and opportunities.

Academics

Hogg Foundation Invests $1.5 Million to Extend Bilingual Scholarship Program Three More Years

A statewide strategy to increase Spanish-language mental health services has proven so successful the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is investing an additional $1.5 million to extend the program three more years.

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