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University Celebrates International Education Week
Event: The University of Texas at Austin is celebrating International Education Week with film nights, foreign language sessions, cultural workshops, travel seminars, music and dance performances, art exhibits, study abroad events and international trivia competitions.
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Medieval Warm Period not so random
People who dispute evidence of recent global warming sometimes point to the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period. Myth four covers the natural variability argument.
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Wall signed by POWs saved from demolition
Bricks from a wall in Russell A. Steindam Hall signed by prisoners of war, will be preserved and displayed in a new facility.
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Happy birthday to “Hook ’em” hand sign
The “Hook ’em, Horns” hand sign turns 55 years old today. How did our beloved and omnipresent hand sign come to be?
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Sculpture of Civil Rights Champion James DeAnda to Be Unveiled Nov. 12
Event: The University of Texas School of Law will host a sculpture unveiling to celebrate the life of the late Honorable James DeAnda, a pioneering lawyer, social activist and federal judge whose career included successfully fighting the s
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Tower shines orange tonight
The Tower will be lighted orange with the number “100” tonight (Nov. 11) in honor of the centennial of the university’s Graduate School.
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Climate models get the basic patterns right
Climate models do have uncertainties (clouds being one of them). With that being said, climate myth No. 3 delves into how climate models generally get basic patterns correct.
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Oscar Brockett dies: “I miss him sorely,” says dean
Distinguished professor Oscar Brockett, 87, a leading theatre historian, died on Nov. 6. His colleagues in the Department of Theatre and Dance and the College of Fine Arts reflect on his achievements and say they are fortunate to have known him.
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Filmmaker Discusses, Screens Documentary on Power of Microfinance for Mayan Women
Event: Filmmaker Melissa Eidson will speak at The University of Texas at Austin following a screening of her film “No Son Invisibles: Maya Women and Microfinance,” a documentary showing the transformative power of microfinance for Maya women in Chiapas, Mexico.
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Be a part of the Graduate School’s 100th anniversary celebration
Join the Graduate School for cake and music at a public birthday party Wednesday, Nov. 10 from 3-5 p.m. on the West Mall.
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Behind the scenes with Meryl Streep
Actress Meryl Streep met with University of Texas at Austin Theatre and Dance students and divulged what she was really thinking in a scene of “The Deer Hunter.”
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Carolyn Miles Garber Named LBJ School Director of Development
Carolyn Miles Garber, former director of development and senior associate director at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, has been appointed director of development at the university’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.
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