Research
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TPAC Proposes 2.6 Percent Increases for In-State Undergraduates for Each of Next Two Academic Years
The Tuition Policy Advisory Committee (TPAC) at The University of Texas at Austin has recommended raising in-state student tuition by 2.6 percent for each of the next two years, a move supporting a priority by The University of Texas System Board of Regents to improve four-year graduation rates.
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1 Semester Startup Class at The University of Texas at Austin to Host “Demo Day” to Showcase 20 Undergraduate Startups
Twenty undergraduate student startups from The University of Texas at Austin will present five-minute investor pitches to the Austin entrepreneurial community Thursday, Dec. 1. The startups are part of 1 Semester Startup (1SS), a class at the university that supports undergraduates who are starting companies.
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Digital Window Into Guatemala’s Past to Launch at Conference on the Politics of Memory
The University of Texas at Austin will launch a digital archive that consists of some 12 million pages of records from the Guatemalan Historical National Police Archive (known as Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional or AHPN), making online resources publicly accessible to researchers, human rights activists, prosecutors and ordinary citizens.
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School, sports and startups
Joshua Glick, an advertising graduate student and entrepreneur, co-founded a new startup that takes sports to a new social level. In this Q-and-A, he talks about his graduate student experience and what he’s learned about starting a company.
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New Center for Cloud Computing Will Impact Mobile Computing and Internet Security
As part of its research efforts to help create safer and faster computing, the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin has partnered with SunGard Availability Services to improve emerging cloud-based technologies through a new center for cloud computing research.
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Europa’s “chaos terrain”
Institute for Geophysics scientists find evidence for a “Great Lake” on Jupiter’s moon Europa and a potential new habitat for life beyond Earth.
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Scientists Find Evidence for “Great Lake” on Europa and Potential New Habitat for Life
In a significant finding in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa.
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Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Thursday, Nov. 17
The best viewing for this year’s Leonid meteor shower will be several hours before dawn on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 17 and 18, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. However, the rising of the half-full moon coincides with the shower and will probably wash out all but the brightest meteors.
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BP Donation Will Help Save Dinosaur Tracks at The University of Texas at Austin
Multinational energy company BP PLC has donated $40,000 to the Texas Natural Science Center at The University of Texas at Austin in support of the center’s capital campaign to save its one-of-a-kind display of fossilized dinosaur tracks from deterioration.
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Ethernet Inventor Bob Metcalfe Interviews Michael Dell, Founder of Dell Inc., on Startups and Innovation
Event: The Cockrell School of Engineering’s Technology Entrepreneurship Society (TES) presents “Talking Startups With Michael Dell, founder of Dell Inc.” When: 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, doors open at 5:15 p.m.
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Prosthetics give injured troops a second chance
Mechanical Engineering Professor Rick Neptune builds devices that improve functional mobility and are customized to each patient’s need.
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UT Game Changers: John Doggett – Ugly Baby Glasses: Debt, Global Competition and America’s Future
Ugly Baby Glasses: Debt, Global Competition and America’s Future
