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Shell Partners with UT Austin to Pursue New Solutions to Unlock Gas Resources

Shell and The University of Texas at Austin today signed a five-year agreement to invest $7.5 million to address short- and long-term challenges facing the growing worldwide unconventional oil and gas industry.
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One of the Largest Facilities For Growing Algae for Biofuels Opens at The University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with AlgEternal Technologies and Georg Fischer Piping Systems, has officially opened one of the largest of-its-kind algae growth demonstration facilities for biofuels in the country.
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Protecting bridges from terrorist attacks

In the decade since 9/11, Engineering Associate Professor Eric Williamson has been designing structures that are safer and more resistant to collapsing.
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Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly A Hybrid Species Of Two Other Swallowtails, Scientists Find

Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly species that evolved when two other species of swallowtails hybridized long ago, a rarity in the animal world, biologists from The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University have found.
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University of Texas at Austin and Shell to Announce New Research Partnership

For Planning Purposes Only: Information Embargoed Until Sept. 13 Event: Announcement and signing of new research agreement between Shell and The University of Texas at Austin.
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Engineering, Natural Sciences Faculty Receive NSF Grant to Study Materials Critical for New Technologies

Faculty at The University of Texas at Austin have been awarded a nearly $3 million competitive grant from the National Science Foundation to study materials that are vital to the development of a broad range of technologies, including everything from cell phones to large-scale energy storage.
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The changing policy landscape after 9/11

Graduate students offer their perspectives on how policy issues such as immigration and national security have evolved over the last decade.
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Wildfire Victims Offered Guidance on Salvaging Records

Conservators in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin are hosting a free workshop from 2-5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11, at the School of Information, 1616 Guadalupe St., to help wildfire victims salvage some of their personal records that have been damaged by fire or water.
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UT’s LBJ School to Host ‘Conversation 9/11: A Decade After, Looking Forward’ on Friday, Sept. 9 Featuring National Security, Law, Terrorism and Government Experts

A decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, many questions are still left unanswered. Are we safer than we were a decade ago? Are we “winning” the so-called “war on terror?” Has the cost of security been worth the incursions into our privacy and even our civil liberties? Was Sept. 11 a massive…
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Panel to Address Current Cybersecurity Trends and Issues

Event: “Cybersecurity Today: Trends, Risk Mitigation and Research” When: 5:45 p.m., Sept. 6. This event is free and open to the public.
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NSF Awards $1.4 Million to Study Remote Socialization and Effects of Information and Communication Technologies

The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.4 million to researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, Northwestern University and the University of California, Irvine, to help explore how working in highly digitized, often remote locations, might transform future definitions of various occupations.
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Is America safer since 9/11?

Professor Ami Pedahzur offers several reasons why the United States should feel confident and optimistic about the struggle against terrorism.