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Cancer Agency Helps UT Austin Bring Top Researcher to Engineering and Medical Schools
Thanks to a $6 million recruitment grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), The University of Texas at Austin has hired Thomas Yankeelov, a distinguished cancer researcher who will assume a dual appointment in the Cockrell School of Engineering and the Dell Medical School.
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Giant Magellan Telescope, World’s Largest, Breaks Ground in Chilean Desert
The McDonald Observatory, along with an international group of universities and research institutions, celebrate groundbreaking for telescope that will address key questions in cosmology, astrophysics and more.
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UT Student Research Sheds Light on Veterans’ Mental Health
Texas is home to 1.7 million veterans, and many have mental health needs that are going untreated. To learn more about how Texas can support veterans’ mental health, six LBJ School students conducted a policy research project that has had a big impact.
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Crowdfunded Mobile App Hopes to Answer Why Monarchs Are Out to Sea
How are UT researchers tracking monarch butterflies’ over-ocean migration pattern? There’s an app for that.
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Mixing Ages in Head Start Stunts Academic Progress
Four-year-olds in the nation’s largest preschool program fare worse with 3-year-olds in their classrooms, according to new research that shows a common practice in most Head Start programs may stunt children’s learning.
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Thanks for Helping UT Austin Shine Bright
More than 88,000 alumni and friends supported UT Austin last year. On Thanks Day, we show our appreciation to everyone who helps the university shine bright. Take a look at what Longhorns are saying about how your generosity helps change the world.
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UT Austin and NASA Expand High School STEM Initiative, Launch New Online Program
NASA has selected the Cockrell School of Engineering at UT Austin for a five-year, $1.3 million grant that will support the national expansion of a STEM program that gives high school students and teachers the opportunity to use NASA resources and work directly with engineers at UT Austin’s Center for Space Research.
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Researchers Win $2 Million Grant to Develop Atomically Thin Semiconductors
A research team led by Xiaoqin Elaine Li has been awarded a grant of $2 million to research and develop thin, flexible semiconductors that might eventually lead to bendable computer screens and wearable electronics.
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My All American Campus — UT in 1969
The year 1969 brought a tumultuous decade in American history to a close, capturing a place in our collective memory and, for those of us who weren’t there, in our imaginations. But for Longhorns, 1969 saw the “Game of the Century” and the making of a football legend.
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Texas Advance to Award $20 Million in Scholarships
Nearly 1,000 Texas high school students will receive scholarships worth $20,000 over four years through Texas Advance, a year-old UT Austin initiative aimed at supporting economically disadvantaged students across the state who are at the top of their class.
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Book on Medieval Syrian Shrines Takes Grand Prize at UT Austin Hamilton Book Awards
Stephennie Mulder at UT Austin has been named the $10,000 grand prize winner of the 2015 University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards for her work “The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi’is, and the Architecture of Coexistence.”
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Upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope Sees First Light at McDonald Observatory
After several years and a massive team effort, one of the world’s largest telescopes, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at UT Austin’s McDonald Observatory, has opened its giant eye again, achieving “first light” as the world’s third-largest optical telescope.
