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A Billion Year Old Piece of North America Traced Back to Antarctica

An international team of researchers has found the strongest evidence yet that parts of North America and Antarctica were connected 1.1 billion years ago, long before the supercontinent Pangaea formed.
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Females Can Place Limits on Evolution of Attractive Features in Males, Research Shows

Female cognitive ability can limit how melodious or handsome males become over evolutionary time, biologists from The University of Texas at Austin, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have observed.
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Hirst Wins Research Award for Paper that Informed 2011 Accounting Standards Rule Change

Eric Hirst, the John Arch White Professor of Business at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, will be honored Aug. 9 with the Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award at the American Accounting Association’s (AAA) annual meeting in Denver.
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School of Information Receives $60,000 from Tocker Foundation to Advance Four Strategic Areas of Information Science

The School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin has received $60,000 from the Tocker Foundation to create the Tocker Fellows program for visiting scholars in library and information science.
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Scientist to Speak on Predictive Science

What: The Austin Forum on Science, Technology and Society
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Word Choice Detects Everything from Love to Lies to Leadership, According to Psychology Research

The words people use are like fingerprints that can reveal their relationships, honesty or their status in a group, according to research by University of Texas at Austin social psychologist James W. Pennebaker.
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University Experts Available for Analysis of U.S. Debt Ceiling and Deficit Situation Issues

The United States is expected to hit its debt ceiling on or near Aug. 2 and no deal is in place from Congress to raise the debt ceiling. Economics experts in and out of government have said that if we reach Aug. 2 without having passed legislation to raise the debt ceiling, the U.S. will…
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Halliburton Program Develops Business Leaders From Students in Liberal Arts, Science and Other Majors

The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business prepares to graduate 91 students this Friday from the Halliburton Business Foundations Summer Institute, an eight-week program that exposes non-business majors to the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed as business leaders.
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The deficit dilemma

How big is our nation’s debt? What does it mean for our economy? Faculty members weigh in on how to tame America’s fiscal beast.
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Texas Advanced Computing Center a Major Partner in $121 Million Advanced Computing Project

A partnership among the National Science Foundation (NSF) and 17 institutions, including the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), today announced the debut of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), the most advanced and powerful collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world.
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Moon Glides by Bright Star, Mars Next Week Before Dawn

The moon puts on a great show before dawn next week as it passes by a bright star and planet, according to the editors of StarDate magazine.
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Another side of Haiti

Watch how a team of graduate students traveled to Haiti to help assess a rural community’s needs and secure long-term support for development projects.