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Men’s golf team captures national championship
The Longhorns secured their third NCAA Men’s Golf Championship June 3 after senior Dylan Frittelli sunk a dramatic 30-foot putt on the 18th green.
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Surprising Early Results from the Nation’s Deepest Research on Consumer Electricity Use
Event: The Austin Forum on Science, Technology and Society will host “The Smart Grid Unveiled: How Pecan Street’s Big Data Research is Uncovering the Promise of a Customer-Driven Energy Revolution” presented by Brewster
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Introducing cloaking
Invisibility cloaking is happening right now in a basement laboratory at the university. Watch this video about one of the most innovative methods to date.
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Fighting Invasive Species, Zombie Style
The history of how red imported fire ants came to North America has a destructive end. Every year the non-native ants cause more than $1 billion of impact in Texas alone.
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Historical Survey Wiki Offers Austinites a Chance to Identify and Catalog Historic Sites
EVENT: Public announcement and launch of Austin’s Historical Survey Wiki WHEN: Noon, Monday, June 4 WHERE: Austin City Hall Council Chambers, 301 W. Second St., 2nd floor
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The bands and more play on at the Cactus Cafe
This summer marks two years since the university announced its partnership with KUT 90.5 to program the iconic listening room in the Texas Union.
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Astronomers Probe ‘Evaporating’ Planet Around Nearby Star with Hobby-Eberly Telescope
Astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin and Wesleyan University have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at UT Austin’s McDonald Observatory to confirm that a Jupiter-size planet in a nearby solar system is dissolving, albeit excruciatingly slowly, because of interactions with its parent star. Their findings could help astronomers better understand star-planet interactions in other…
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Vertebrates Share Ancient Neural Circuitry for Complex Social Behaviors, Biologists Find
Humans, fish and frogs share neural circuits responsible for a diversity of social behavior, from flashy mating displays to aggression and monogamy, that have existed for more than 450 million years, biologists at The University of Texas at Austin found.
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Commencement 2012 in photos
About 8,000 students graduated at the 129th spring commencement. View photo highlights from the ceremony with the fireworks as the grand finale.
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New Study Confirms Benefits of a Research University to Student Success
About 89 percent of all undergraduate students and 94 percent of seniors participate in some type of research while at The University of Texas at Austin, according to a new study released this month from the Office of Assessment for the university’s Division of Student Affairs. Based on a survey of 13,120 undergraduates, the report…
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Lumina Foundation Awards Grant to Support Innovations to Improve Student Success
The University of Texas at Austin, Public Agenda and innovative college and university leaders nationwide and across Texas have been awarded a $745,000 grant from Lumina Foundation to develop and implement cost-effective ways of increasing educational attainment and improving student success.
