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Providing Unique Fossil Dinosaur Tracks A New Home A Priority for University Natural Sciences Center

The University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Natural Science Center aims to move a set of unique fossilized dinosaur tracks into new exhibit space in the Texas Memorial Museum, saving them from degradation.
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Student mentor and animal champion

McCombs School’s Louise Epstein is applying her skills as an entrepreneur to help pass a bill that regulates commercial dog and cat breeding.
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Chemical Engineering Professor Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Keith P. Johnston, chemical engineering professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to engineers worldwide.
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Law School to Host “Federalism and Its Future” Conference, Feb. 10-12

Nationally and internationally acclaimed scholars and lawyers will discuss recent significant scholarship on the topic of federalism in the United States and abroad at a three-day conference, “Federalism and Its Future,” hosted at The University of Texas School of Law on Feb. 10-12.
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A kiss is not just a kiss

There is real chemistry behind kissing, explains research associate and science writer Sheril Kirshenbaum.
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Life Science “Study Break” Funded for $10,000 by Credit Union

The Life Science Library has received $10,000 from the University Federal Credit Union (UFCU) to sponsor its popular Science Study Break program.
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“Free Speech Dialogues” Examines Political Speech and Campaign Finance Regulation

Event: “Free Speech Dialogues,” sponsored by the BBandT Chair for the Study of Objectivism at The University of Texas at Austin. Free and open to the public.
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Building a ‘Green Star State’

A Q-and-A with graduate student Melissa Lott, who recently blogged for “Scientific American” on Texas’ renewable energy resources.
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The first Longhorn in space …

… was a monkey named Sam. Sam and another Rhesus monkey named Miss Sam, were trained at what’s now the J.J. Pickle Research Campus.
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University of Texas at Austin Professor Most Influential Management Information Systems Researcher

Andrew B. Whinston, professor at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, is identified as the most influential researcher in the field of management information systems in a study that measures the productivity and impact of published work by scientists and scholars using a yardstick called the h-index.
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Scientist Conveys Importance of ‘Seeing’ Data in the 21st Century

Event: Dr. Kelly Gaither, director of data and information analysis at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), will discuss why scientific visualization is such a powerful tool for understanding science in the 21st century.
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Digital Collection Highlights Photos Taken In Corpus Christi During Great Depression

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has made available online the digital collection “The Itinerant Photographer: Photographs of Corpus Christi Businesses in the 1930s.”