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The University of Texas at Austin Among Top Contributors of Graduates to Teach For America
The University of Texas at Austin is third in the nation among large schools in contributing graduating seniors to the Teach For America teaching corps.
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Murderball duo is hell on wheels
Balancing work life and school life with a competitive quad rugby schedule is a challenge these Longhorns embrace.
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Ninety Percent of Preschoolers’ Sack Lunches Reach Unsafe Temperatures
More than 90 percent of sack lunches prepared at home and sent with kids to preschool were kept at unsafe temperatures, a new study by nutritional scientists at The University of Texas at Austin found.
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A Billion Year Old Piece of North America Traced Back to Antarctica
An international team of researchers has found the strongest evidence yet that parts of North America and Antarctica were connected 1.1 billion years ago, long before the supercontinent Pangaea formed.
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Speaking up for Arab Americans
What Assistant Professor Germine Awad experienced after Sept. 11, 2001 altered the focus of her research on prejudice and discrimination.
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Challenging a woman’s role in medicine
Alumna Sue Ellen Young Knolle was determined to pursue medical school after graduating from UT in the ’60s, despite it not being a traditional path for women at the time.
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Females Can Place Limits on Evolution of Attractive Features in Males, Research Shows
Female cognitive ability can limit how melodious or handsome males become over evolutionary time, biologists from The University of Texas at Austin, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have observed.
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Life-saving solutions for surgeries
For one professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, spending time crunching numbers is leading to technologies that could save lives. Dr. Thomas Hughes and his colleagues have pioneered patient-specific 3-D models of blood flow through the heart and blood vessels that could help guide best practices for cardiologists.
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Hirst Wins Research Award for Paper that Informed 2011 Accounting Standards Rule Change
Eric Hirst, the John Arch White Professor of Business at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, will be honored Aug. 9 with the Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award at the American Accounting Association’s (AAA) annual meeting in Denver.
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Hogg Foundation and St. Luke’s Join Forces to Fund Children’s Mental Health Training for Houston Adults
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health and St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities together are funding four children’s mental health training programs for adults who work with children and youth in the Houston area but aren’t mental health professionals.
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School of Information Receives $60,000 from Tocker Foundation to Advance Four Strategic Areas of Information Science
The School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin has received $60,000 from the Tocker Foundation to create the Tocker Fellows program for visiting scholars in library and information science.
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Scientist to Speak on Predictive Science
What: The Austin Forum on Science, Technology and Society
