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Tower lights will be dark tonight
On the night of UT Remembers, the Tower will be dark in remembrance of members of the university community who died in the past year.
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Memorial Services Scheduled for Senior Vice President Shirley Bird Perry
Memorial services for Shirley Bird Perry, 74, have been scheduled for Monday, May 9, 2 p.m. in the Lyndon B. Johnson Library Auditorium.
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The next big thing
The university has renewed its entrepreneurial spirit, creating an extensive support system for aspiring entrepreneurs. Read how founders of three companies used UT’s resources to start their new ventures.
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Four Planets Huddle Up Before Dawn Next Week
Four of the five planets visible to the unaided eye huddle quite close together in the pre-dawn sky next week, according to the editors of StarDate magazine.
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Scientists Afflict Computers with Schizophrenia to Better Understand the Human Brain
Computer networks that can’t forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic brains, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Yale University have found.
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Biomedical Engineering Professor Receives Nearly $1 Million for Cancer Research
Dr. John Zhang, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has received nearly $1 million from the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Cancer Institute for his research on early detection of cancer.
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University of Texas at Austin President William Powers Jr. to Deliver Speech on May 9
Event: Address by William Powers Jr., president of The University of Texas at Austin, on the university’s progress on undergraduate curriculum reform, teaching effectiveness, operational efficiency and research.
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Drug Design, Environmental Sustainability, Oil Recovery Receive Private Grand Challenge Research Funds
Seven University of Texas at Austin researchers are confronting what the scientific community has defined as this century’s grand challenges in drug design, environmental sustainability and improved oil recovery using Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty awards for 2011-12.
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Marketing Professor to Be Recognized by Texas State House of Representatives for Teaching Award
Herb Miller, senior lecturer in the Department of Marketing in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, will be recognized May 10 by the Texas State House of Representatives for his receipt of a Texas Exes Teaching Award.
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National Awards Cite Academic Advising at The University of Texas at Austin
The National Academic Advising Association has named three individuals and two programs at The University of Texas at Austin as recipients of awards from the association’s Annual Awards Program for Academic Advising.
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What “Schoolhouse Rock” didn’t teach you
Project Vote Smart’s Key Votes program builds knowledge of the legislative process beyond the “Schoolhouse Rock” song on how a bill becomes law.
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Tower shines orange tonight
The Tower will be lighted orange May 4 in recognition of the rowing team’s victory at the Big 12 Championships April 30 in Kansas City, Kan.
