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Celeste Ward Gventer Joins the Strauss Center as Associate Director

Celeste Ward Gventer, a defense policy expert, has been named associate director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin.
Academics

Online Course Helps Students Put their Liberal Arts Education on the Map

Dr. Katharine Brooks, director of career services at The University of Texas at Austin, helps students studying in liberal arts fields such as English, economics and history market their education to future employers in her new online course “Taking Your Major from College to Career.”
Academics

Texas Senator Leticia Van de Putte to Open LBJ School Leadership Lecture Series

Texas Senator Leticia Van de Putte will be the first of six prominent individuals offering their thoughts on leadership from the perspectives of politics, history, ethics, philanthropy, business and athletics as part of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs’ inaugural Leadership Lecture Series, beginning Oct. 13.
Campus

Department of Theatre and Dance Hosts Free Celebrity Guest-Artist Panels, Oct. 16

Event: The Department of Theatre and Dance will celebrate the 50th anniversary of “The Fantasticks,” the longest-running American musical, with its creators, College of Fine Arts al
Research

Tower shines orange tonight

The Tower will be lighted orange Thursday, Oct. 7 to recognize the Texas MBA Energy Finance Group’s victory at the 6th annual National Energy Finance Challenge, hosted by the McCombs School of Business.
Student Experience

Student blogs reveal what college life is like

Through Longhorn Confidential, eight students — from first-year undergrads to graduate students — share their thoughts and experiences online.
Research

The “No Debate” debate

Using online communications outlets on their own terms, political candidates no longer see an advantage to engaging their challengers in more traditional televised debates. This “No Debate” debate approach signals a new era in campaigns nationwide.
Campus

Transforming citizens into citizen journalists

The electorate is not being as informed as it once was. Media operations have scaled back. And so, the public has to work harder than ever to do its own form of citizen journalism as we steam toward November.
Student Experience

University of Texas at Austin Experts Weigh in on Mid-term Elections

As the Tea Party movement tries to gain clout, Democrats struggle to hold onto power and Texans focus on a gubernatorial race, faculty experts at The University of Texas at Austin are offering analysis of next month’s historic mid-term elections.
Health & Medicine

University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work Study Funded by $1.5 Million American Cancer Society Grant

A University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work researcher has received a four-year $1.5 million grant from the American Cancer Society to look at how neighborhood environments influence obesity and smoking among women and their young children.
Research

Skin Color Linked to Social Inequality in Contemporary Mexico, Study Shows

Despite the popular, state-sponsored ideology that denies the existence of prejudice based on racial or skin color differences in Mexico, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin provides evidence of profound social inequality by skin color.
Research

New Fossil Suggests Dinosaurs Not So Fierce After All

A new species of dinosaur discovered in Arizona suggests dinosaurs did not spread throughout the world by overpowering other species, but by taking advantage of a natural catastrophe that wiped out their competitors.