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Genders Differ Dramatically in Evolved Mate Preferences
Men’s and women’s ideas of the perfect mate differ significantly due to evolutionary pressures, according to a cross-cultural study on multiple mate preferences by psychologists at UT Austin.
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Halliburton Partners With McCombs School to Teach Business Education Across Disciplines
Halliburton has donated $1 million to renew support of the Texas Business Foundations Summer Institute at the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin. The grant will fund the Summer Institute through 2020.
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NEH Grant Will Transform Study of Early Books
A National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant will make many of the first books printed in the Americas available for the first time in digital full-text format, thanks to innovations in optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
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Med School Rising
Since October 2014, eight construction cranes have towered over the UT’s most intense construction effort in decades: the creation of Dell Medical School and the medical district that will surround it. Get a view from the top.
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Tower Turns Orange for LHN Filming
The university Tower will be lit Thursday, July 30 to support a Longhorn Network filming crew.
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UT Austin Leads National Effort to Help Transfer Students Earn Associate Degrees
Almost 270,000 Texans could be eligible to receive associate degrees for coursework they have completed through Reverse Transfer, the first national service to retroactively award the degrees to students after they transfer to a four-year university.
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Hormones Influence Unethical Behavior
Hormones play a two-part role in encouraging and reinforcing cheating and other unethical behavior, according to research from Harvard University and UT Austin.
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Selective Imitation Shows Children are Flexible Social Learners, Study Finds
Psychologists at UT Austin found that children flexibly choose when to imitate and when to innovate the behavior of others, demonstrating that children are precocious social learners.
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Dell Medical School Health Sciences Summer Camps Introduce Austin Students to Medicine & Health Professions
The Dell Medical School at UT Austin won’t open for nearly a year. But its first group of students — more than 50 Austin Independent School District (AISD) high schoolers — has already started with Monday’s launch of the Dell Medical School Health Sciences Summer Camp.
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Obama Will Name UT Austin’s Sandra Black to Council of Economic Advisers
President Barack Obama intends to nominate UT Austin economics Professor Sandra E. Black to join the three-member White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).
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UT Austin Receives Final Approval for New Doctorate for Nurses
UT Austin’s School of Nursing has received final approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to launch a doctor of nursing practice (DNP) degree program, a professional doctoral program designed to prepare graduates for today’s increasingly complex health care practice and clinical leadership roles.
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Texas Astronomers Help Find Earth’s Older, Bigger Cousin
UT Austin astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler mission have helped to discover the first near-Earth-sized planet around a Sun-like star in the “habitable zone,” the range of distances where liquid water could pool on a planet’s surface.
