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Keeping it ethical: A Q&A with Rudy Green
Rudy Green, director of University Compliance Services, shares how his office works to keep the university ethical and compliant.
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Prof analyzes aggressive teenage driving
Transportation engineering Professor Chandra Bhat explains why a pickup could be the most dangerous vehicle for a 16- to 17-year-old to drive. Teens driving them are 100 percent more likely to be severely injured during a crash than a teen of the same age driving a car.
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Energy: Recognizing how much isn’t there
To deal with the energy crisis we must deal with a consumption crisis, but politicians are reluctant to run a campaign based on a call for “less” — the American Dream, after all, is always “more.”
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Controlling the rising costs of health care
The only real way to address either the problem of offensive or defensive medicine is comprehensive health care reform which addresses holistically the various cost drivers. In other words, any real reform must address underuse, misuse and overuse.
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Hogg seeks applications for dissertation research funding
Doctoral students are invited to apply for the Francis Fowler Wallace Memorial Award — administered by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health — to support their research of mental health-related topics.
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Are social media and politics hitting the mark for young voters?
Campaign spin doctors — from both the left and the right — hope to lure new voters to their candidates through Facebook and Twitter, but will they instead lead cautious voters to further tune out the political “news”?
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Why timing is everything for a successful president
In this QandA, H.W. Brands, the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History, discusses what President Obama could learn from Franklin Roosevelt’s legacy, and why successful presidents must be a half-step – not a full step – ahead of the times.
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Project to Study ‘Dark Energy’ Receives $8 Million from National Science Foundation
A project to discover the nature of dark energy, a mysterious force causing the expansion of the universe to speed up, has received an $8 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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State of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Panel, Oct. 29
Event: As part of its fall lecture series, the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE) hosts a panel featuring Dr. M.
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Ransom Center Hosts Variety of Programs in November and December
Event: The Harry Ransom Center hosts public programs. When: Various dates throughout November and December.
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Industry, Academic Experts Host Conference on Information Technology Innovation
Event: Information Management 30th Anniversary Symposium and Dinner When: “Into the Cloud” symposium, Friday, Nov. 5, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Celebration dinner, Saturday, Nov. 6, 6-9 p.m.
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Researchers Get $2.3 Million Grant to Help Bilingual First Graders Overcome Language Impairments
Speech-language researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help Central Texas first graders from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds overcome language impairments.
