Research
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Gauging the mood of the voters
How are the voters doing this mid-term season? It’s a question not often asked, but it is worth raising because intentionally or not, voters create most of the incentives that influence the candidates and the news media. Here are some examples of how incentives are working in 2010.
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Dueling interviews in the governor’s race
This Friday, the Texas Tribune, KUT and KLRU will collaborate to stage and webcast separate live interviews with Rick Perry and Bill White from The University of Texas at Austin campus. These interviews come in response to an impasse between the Perry and White campaigns. Warning: If you’re frustrated by politics, what follows isn’t going…
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LBJ School Professor Awarded $100,000 Ford Foundation Grant for Sustainable Housing Research
Peter Ward, the C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations and professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for research on sustainable housing policy and policy development for self-help in the Texas colonias, residential…
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Tsunami Risk Higher in Los Angeles, Other Major Cities
Geologists studying the Jan. 12 Haiti earthquake say the risk of destructive tsunamis is higher than expected in places such as Kingston, Istanbul and Los Angeles.
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The economy is the crux of November’s elections
In the 1992 presidential election race the Clinton camp mocked President George H.W. Bush’s inability to understand his falling popularity with the memorable phrase “it’s the economy, stupid.” It is funny how history has a nasty way of repeating itself.
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The uncooperative Democrats and their tax cuts disaster
The Democrats blew it. With the plan to make the 2001 Bush tax cuts permanent for the middle class, they had a chance to change the narrative for the 2010 elections. But, alas, amid disunity in their own ranks, the Democrats retreated to their constituencies, promising to take up the issue after the election.
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Economic policy as if people mattered
When politicians talk economics these days, they argue a lot about the budget deficit. That’s crucial to our economic future, but in the contemporary workplace there’s an equally threatening problem — the democracy deficit.
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Tower shines orange tonight
The Tower will be lighted orange Thursday, Oct. 7 to recognize the Texas MBA Energy Finance Group’s victory at the 6th annual National Energy Finance Challenge, hosted by the McCombs School of Business.
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The “No Debate” debate
Using online communications outlets on their own terms, political candidates no longer see an advantage to engaging their challengers in more traditional televised debates. This “No Debate” debate approach signals a new era in campaigns nationwide.
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Skin Color Linked to Social Inequality in Contemporary Mexico, Study Shows
Despite the popular, state-sponsored ideology that denies the existence of prejudice based on racial or skin color differences in Mexico, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin provides evidence of profound social inequality by skin color.
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New Fossil Suggests Dinosaurs Not So Fierce After All
A new species of dinosaur discovered in Arizona suggests dinosaurs did not spread throughout the world by overpowering other species, but by taking advantage of a natural catastrophe that wiped out their competitors.
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University of Texas at Austin to Host Biomedical Engineering Meeting, Oct. 6-9
The nation’s leading experts in biomedical engineering will meet in Austin Oct. 6-9 to network with top faculty and students from around the world, collaborate on new research and discuss the future of biomedical engineering, one of the fastest growing fields in the nation.
