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Inside Haiti: A photographer’s vision
For more than 20 years, photojournalism alumna Maggie Steber has documented Haiti’s people, history and culture.
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Heman Sweatt Symposium Founders Discuss Evolution of Campus Tradition
Event: The monthly speaker series of the 25th annual Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights at The University of Texas at Austin presents two former university administrators, Drs.
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New Book Aims to Train Urban Educators
Teachers and administrators at The University of Texas Elementary School have completed a new book titled “Teaching to the Spirit of Every Child: Lessons Learned in Urban Education,” and are ready to disseminate it widely to educators across Texas.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Discusses Katrina, Natural Disasters
Event: Lozano Long Conference “From Natural Events to Social Disasters in the Circum-Caribbean.” Free and open to the public. When: Feb. 23-25
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Vocal Media Wins Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition
Vocal Media, a company that uses the dead-air time in international phone calls to advertise to U.S. immigrant populations, won the Texas round of the Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition (TVLIC) Feb. 16.
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Annual Nilsson Drama Lecture Considers “Threepenny”
The 6th annual David O. Nilsson Lecture in Contemporary Drama returns to the stage with a conversation about Brecht and Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera” at 6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 24 in the Winship Drama Building, Room 2.112 on The University of Texas at Austin campus.
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Sustainable building in a hot and humid climate
The School of Architecture’s Thermal Lab, an experimental facility, allows for the testing of new building components while taking the Central Texas climate into consideration.
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Get a peek at the Giant Magellan Telescope
The University of Texas at Austin is part of a group of institutions working together to build the Giant Magellan Telescope. See the telescope in action in this animation.
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Student perspectives: Egypt unrest
The world was watching as political protests erupted in Egypt, and for three UT students with close connections to the country, the uprising was personal.
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“Friending” freedom
Anita Husen is a graduate student in Arabic Studies. She writes about the role Egyptian youth and social networks played during the riots.
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All against one
Hadiel Nawaz is a psychology junior who grew up in Alexandria and Cairo. She said the news of Mubarak’s resignation filled her with “a myriad of emotions.”
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Witness to a revolution
Senior Jordan Bellquist was studying abroad in Alexandria, Egypt when the riots broke out.
