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LBJ School Returning to Nation’s Capital with New Washington Center Offering 18-Month, D.C.-Focused Curriculum

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin is creating the LBJ School Washington Center where students will be able to earn a master’s degree in 18 months with a unique focus on federal public policy.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Summit on Data Visualization to Offer Insights on Big Data in Education

The first-ever invitational Summit on Educational Data Visualization is bringing together national education scholars, business leaders and technology experts for a discussion on the essential role big data plays in solving some of education’s biggest challenges.
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UT Energy Poll and OurEnergyPolicy.org Surveys Reveal Support for Energy Efficiency and Concerns about Political Squabbling

Four out of five American consumers and energy professionals view energy efficiency as a personal priority and at least two out of three believe it could significantly reduce overall energy use if not for political squabbling, two new surveys show.
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Student Teams from 12 Countries Will Compete in Annual Global Venture Labs Investment Competition

The Global Venture Labs Investment Competition (Global VLIC), the longest-running investment competition for graduate student entrepreneurs, takes place May 1-3 at the ATandT Executive Education and Conference Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Smart Ideas for Reviving American Health Care

It’s too expensive and makes too many mistakes. Expert faculty members offer their solutions for an ailing system.
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UT Austin Evolutionary Ecologist Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

[caption id="attachment_45599" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Eric Pianka. Photo by Marsha Miller/UT Austin."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced this week the election of 204 new members, including Eric Pianka, an evolutionary ecologist in The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Natural Sciences.
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Coming Up with Explanations Helps Children Develop Cause-and-Effect Thinking Skills, Study Shows

Asking children to come up with explanations even to themselves enhances their cause-and-effect learning abilities, according to new psychology research from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Cockrell School of Engineering Senior is One of 15 Students Nationwide to Receive Prestigious Hertz Fellowship

Ashvin Bashyam, a biomedical engineering senior in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, was selected to receive the prestigious Hertz Foundation Fellowship, a five-year award valued at $250,000. He is one of only 15 students in the nation selected for the annual fellowship this year and becomes the Cockrell…
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Phillips 66 Presents $500,000 Check to The University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin has received a $500,000 gift from Phillips 66 that will benefit a range of programs across campus and help support the Cockrell School of Engineering, the McCombs School of Business and the College of Natural Sciences.
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Neurons in the Brain Tune into Different Frequencies for Different Spatial Memory Tasks

[caption id=”attachment_45469″ align=”alignright” width=”237″ caption=”Place cells in the hippocampus provide a neuronal code for specific locations in space. Place cells codes represent upcoming locations at some times and reflect recently visited locations at other times. The findings by Bieri and colleagues show that place cells predict upcoming locations during periods of slow gamma rhythms and…
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Shade Grown Coffee Shrinking as a Proportion of Global Coffee Production

The proportion of land used to cultivate shade grown coffee, relative to the total land area of coffee cultivation, has fallen by nearly 20 percent globally since 1996, according to a new study by scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and five other institutions.
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Tillerson Family Commits $5 Million to Cockrell School of Engineering, Bolsters Engineering Education and Research Center

Rex W. Tillerson, chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, and his wife, Renda, have made a personal pledge of $5 million to support the Engineering Education and Research Center (EERC), a 430,000-square-foot facility.

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