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Future Shock: What Does the Day After Tomorrow Look Like?

Event: Dr. Dan Reed, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of the Technology Policy and Strategy and eXtreme Computing Groups, will discuss disruptive technology trends and the opportunities and challenges they present from business, technical, social and policy perspectives.
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Opening of New Health IT Learning Center at The University of Texas at Austin

Event: Opening of the new Health Information Technology Learning Center in the Norman Hackerman Building When: 46 p.m., June 6 Where: Norman Hackerman Building, 100 East 24th St., The University of Texas at Austin campus
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Global Venture Labs Investment Competition Winners to Ring NASDAQ Closing Bell June 3

Event: TNG Pharmaceuticals, winner of the 2011 Global Venture Labs Investment Competition, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square Friday, June 3, to ring the closing bell.
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Steel Named Chair of Department of Geological Sciences

Ron Steel, professor and the Morgan Davis Centennial Chair in the Jackson School of Geosciences, has been named chair of the Department of Geological Sciences in the Jackson School at The University of Texas at Austin starting Aug. 1.
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New Map Reveals Giant Fjords Beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet

Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high-resolution topographic map of one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora Subglacial Basin, an immense ice-buried lowland in East Antarctica larger than Texas.
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Freshmen step up in research realm

In this video, biology student Holli Duhon says participating in the Freshman Research Initiative allowed her to be innovative in a lab setting.
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Ranking Seeks to Protect Internet Users from Data Theft by Exposing Flagrant Spam Havens

The Center for Research in Economic Commerce (CREC) at The University of Texas at Austin has unveiled an initiative called SpamRankings.net, designed to protect Internet users by identifying major havens for spam.
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Tech Industry Companies to Support June 13 Health Privacy Summit in D.C.

Organizers of the upcoming Health Privacy Summit, “Getting IT Right: Protecting Patient Privacy in a Wired World” scheduled for June 13 in Washington D.C., today announced seven leading technology industry sponsors of the day-long conference: Microsoft; Jericho Systems; Oracle; Dell; ID Experts; Vir-Sec, and e-MDs Inc.
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The University of Texas at Austin Celebrates Completion of Austin’s Largest Solar Power System

Event: The University of Texas at Austin and its Facilities Services Department mark the completion of a solar power system installed on the J. J. Pickle Research Campus (PRC). When: 10:30 a.m., June 2
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Texas Voters’ Top Concerns Remain Economy, Border Security, Immigration, Poll Says

Texas voters believe the most pressing issues facing the country are economic, while the most important problems facing Texas are border security and immigration, according to a University of Texas at Austin/Texas Tribune poll released this week.
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Aerospace Engineering Professor Elected to United Kingdom’s Royal Society

Cockrell School of Engineering Professor Thomas J. R.
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Texans Support Budget Cuts, But Not Cuts in Social Services, Public Education, Poll Says

As the state legislative session nears its end, a majority of Texas voters continue to support cutting the state budget, but do not back specific cuts to education and social programs that have taken center stage at the Capitol, according to a University of Texas at Austin/Texas Tribune poll.