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ESPN and The University of Texas at Austin Unveil ‘Longhorn Network’ Name and Logo
The name and logo for the 24-hour University of Texas at Austin network were announced today by ESPN Senior Vice President, College Sports Programming, Burke Magnus, Men’s Athletics Director DeLoss Dodds and Women’s Athletics Director Chris Plonsky at the Longhorns’ annual spring football game televised by ESPN.
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Why history matters
Don Carleton, executive director of the Briscoe Center for American History, reveals how the stories of our past make up who we are today.
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Six Assistant Professors Win CAREER Awards from National Science Foundation
Six assistant professors at The University of Texas at Austin received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards totaling nearly $3 million from the National Science Foundation.
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House Speaker Joe Straus to speak with University of Texas at Austin Students
Event: Texas House of Representatives Speaker Joe Straus will appear on The University of Texas at Austin campus as part of the Texas Politics Speaker Series sponsored by the Texas Politics Project.
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University of Texas at Austin Dedicates Lonestar 4 Supercomputer for Open Science Community
Event: University of Texas at Austin President William Powers Jr., Michael Dell, Dr. Jay Boisseau and Dr. Karl Schulz will dedicate Lonestar 4, the newest supercomputer at The University of Texas at Austin.
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The cost of political speech
What went on and who said what at the latest Free Speech Dialogue, a semesterly panel discussion that addresses free speech controversies.
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Men’s Basketball Coach Rick Barnes to Receive USBWA’s Good Guy Award
University of Texas at Austin men’s basketball head coach Rick Barnes has been selected to receive the Good Guy Award from the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA). The award honors both coaching excellence and cooperation with the news media.
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Conference to Explore How Americans Should Interpret their Constitution in the Future, April 1-2
The University of Texas School of Law, in association with the American Constitutional Society and the Open Society Institute, will host a conference on “The Future of Equality” in the School of Law’s Jeffers Courtroom on April 1-2.
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Engineering Professor Provides Senate Committee with Seven Policy Recommendations on the Water-Energy Nexus
Water and energy are directly related and policies that promote energy conservation also achieve water conservation and vice versa, Cockrell School of Engineering Professor Michael Webber told a U.S. Senate Committee March 31.
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$250,000 Hertz Fellowship Awarded to Chemical Engineering Student
Katie Maass, a senior chemical engineering student in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a five-year $250,000 Hertz Foundation Fellowship to pursue graduate research that will fight cancer and improve drug delivery.
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LBJ School of Public Affairs to Generate First Texas Statewide Measure of Teacher Effectiveness
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has contracted with The University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs to develop a comprehensive metric that measures a teacher’s effect on student achievement under the direction of the school’s Project on Educator Effectiveness and Quality (PEEQ).
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Harry Edwards, Author of “The Revolt of the Black Athlete,” To Speak April 7
Event: Harry Edwards, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, will deliver the keynote speech at the McGarr Symposium on Sport
