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[caption id=”attachment_39156″ align=”alignright” width=”300″ caption=”The picture depicts the long-range spin-spin interaction (blue wavy lines) in which the spin-sensitive detector on Earth’s surface interacts with geoelectrons (red dots) deep in Earth’s mantle. The arrows on the geoelectrons indicate their spin orientations, opposite that of Earth’s magnetic field lines (white arcs). Illustration: Marc Airhart (University of Texas…

Foodways Texas, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, promoting and honoring the Lone Star State’s unique food cultures, will host its third annual Foodways Texas Symposium April 4-6, on and near the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. Foodways Texas is affiliated with the university’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.

William Press delivered his presidential address to the AAAS last week, asking conference attendees to consider the beauty and benefits of science. Learn more.

The Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences Building at The University of Texas at Austin, will be renamed the O’Donnell Building for Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences, in honor of Peter and Edith O’Donnell, Jr. of Dallas, whose foundation built the building and gifted it to the university.

The University of Texas at Austin’s Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk has partnered with the George W. Bush Institute to launch the Middle School Matters Institute (MSMI).

The federal government needs to make breast cancer prevention a priority and place funding for prevention at the same level as other types of research, says a new sweeping report issued today by scientists and breast cancer experts.

President Obama awarded medals to not one but TWO University of Texas at Austin scientists! The tower will be lit Feb. 12 in their honor. Learn more.

Students around the globe will have the opportunity to participate in nine dynamic massive open online courses (MOOCs) to be offered by The University of Texas at Austin during the 2013-14 academic year.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that two professors and two alumni from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the prestigious academy.

Professor Thomas F. Edgar, a chemical engineer with extensive teaching, administrative, research and industry experience, has been named interim director of the Energy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin.