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Black Hole Chokes on a Swallowed Star

A five-year analysis of an event captured by a tiny telescope at McDonald Observatory and followed up by telescopes on the ground and in space has led astronomers to believe they witnessed a giant black hole tear apart a star.
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A 3-D View of the Greenland Ice Sheet Opens Window on Ice History

Scientists using ice-penetrating radar data collected by NASA’s Operation IceBridge and earlier airborne campaigns have built the first comprehensive map of layers deep inside the Greenland Ice Sheet, opening a window on past climate conditions and the ice sheet’s potentially perilous future.
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Majority of Young Women and Men Prefer Egalitarian Relationships, Study Shows

AUSTIN, Texas The majority of young women and men today would prefer an egalitarian relationship in which work and family responsibilities are shared equally between partners if that possibility were available to them, according to a new study from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California-Santa Barbara.
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Faculty Experts Guide for 2015 Texas Legislative Session

As lawmakers convene to tackle complex issues for the state, experts at The University of Texas at Austin can provide rich commentary and insight based on years of research and work in the field.
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Texas Students Win IBM Watson Competition With App Expanding Access to Social Services

[caption id=”attachment_50010″ align=”alignright” width=”300″ caption=”The University of Texas at Austin team flashes the school's "hook 'em horns" sign as they celebrate their first place win in the Watson University Competition. Held at IBM Watson headquarters in NYC, the team worked over the course of a semester to develop a Watson-based app, CallScout, that could improve…
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Short Words Predict Academic Success

AUSTIN, Texas The smallest, most forgettable words in admissions essays can tell us in advance how students will perform in college, a new study by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin reveals.
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UT Austin One of Six Top Research Universities to Earn 2015 Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification

The University of Texas at Austin has received a 2015 Community Engagement Classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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New Director Named at Center for Politics and Governance

Ryan Streeter, a long-serving government official at the state and federal levels, has been named director of the Center for Politics and Governance at The University of Texas at Austin.
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McCombs Scholarship Provides Money and Expertise to Student Entrepreneurs

Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs (TVL) will award two scholarships valued at $50,000 each during a shark-tank style pitch competition Feb. 20, 2015, as part of their third annual TVL Scholarship Competition for student entrepreneurs who pursue their MBA degrees at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
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Computer Scientists at UT Austin Crack Code for Redrawing Bird Family Tree

Siavash Mirarab, computer science graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin, helped develop a new technique for estimating evolutionary relationships that allowed researchers to redraw the bird family tree.
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New Study Measures Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Production and Offers Insights into Two Large Sources

Researchers find a small percentage of wells accounts for the majority of emissions.
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Brain Specimens were Disposed of by Environmental Workers in 2002

A preliminary university investigation has revealed that UT environmental health and safety officials disposed of multiple brain specimens in approximately 2002 in accordance with protocols concerning biological waste.