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Author, Professor to Analyze What the Language You Use Really Says About You

Event: The Austin Forum on Science, Technology and Society will host: “How Our Words Reflect Who We Are” presented by James W. Pennebaker, Liberal Arts Foundation Centennial Professor, Department Chair of the Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin.
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University of Texas at Austin Honors World-Changing Achievements of Two Faculty Inventors

Event: The first University of Texas at Austin Inventor of the Year Awards, honoring professors John Goodenough and Adam Heller.
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Student entrepreneurs give a hoot

College of Natural Sciences and McCombs School of Business undergrads started Hoot.Me, an application that turns Facebook into a study tool.
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Bob Metcalfe Receives Japan’s C&C Prize for Development of Ethernet

Bob Metcalfe, Internet pioneer and now professor of innovation at The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, has been recognized with an international award for his contributions to the development of the Internet.
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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.