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McCombs School Announces Establishment of 500th Endowment with Support from San Antonians Sandra and Stanley Rosenberg

The University of Texas at Austin announced the establishment of the Sandra and Stanley Rosenberg Endowed Excellence Fund in Business and Law, marking the 500th endowment at the McCombs School of Business.
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University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy Researcher Receives $2.1 Million Grant for Cystic Fibrosis Treatment

A University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy researcher has received a $2.1 million grant to develop new techniques for drug delivery to the lungs, helping in the fight against such lung diseases as cystic fibrosis.
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National Research Council’s Survey of Universities Includes The University of Texas at Austin

The National Research Council (NRC) has released its third assessment of research doctorate programs, data collected in 2006 for 20 variables that reflect key characteristics of research doctoral programs at more than 5,000 doctoral programs at 212 universities in the United States, including The University of Texas at Austin.
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Modern-Day Slavery To Be Examined at Human Trafficking Conference, Oct. 6-7

Texas State Rep. Senfronia Thompson, the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin, and the State Bar of Texas will present the First International Conference on Human Trafficking (ICHT): “Moving Beyond Talk”, Oct. 6-7 at the Texas State Capitol.
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University of Texas and Texas A&M Systems Augment Storage Collaboration

The University of Texas System is extending an innovative collaboration with the Texas AandM University System to preserve library resources at both systems.
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Researchers develop tool to identify bilingual children with true language disorders

According to the 2000 census, nearly one-third of Texans ages 5 years and older speak Spanish at home. Add the under-5 population and the percentage is even higher. Due to continued immigration and globalism, the bilingual population will continue to grow in Texas.
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Stress Hormone Blocks Testosterone’s Effects, Study Shows

High levels of the stress hormone cortisol play a critical role in blocking testosterone’s influence on competition and domination, according to new psychology research at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Meeting Workforce Demands

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Immigration Clinic Director Barbara Hines Receives King Award for Immigrant Rights Work

The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild has named Barbara Hines, director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, the recipient of its Carol Weiss King Award for excellence in the pursuit of social justice through organizing, litigating and teaching.
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Facing the climate change challenge

Dr. Steven Hamburg, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, does a lot of traveling. Often when he checks into his hotel room, the lights are already on and the temperature is set at a cool 65 degrees. Is this a welcoming, inviting gesture from the hotel employees? Or is it an example of the…
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Researchers Generate Compelling Computational Results on TACC’s Longhorn Visualization Cluster

Longhorn, the largest hardware-accelerated interactive visualization cluster in the world located at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), is providing researchers with unprecedented visualization capabilities and enabling them to effectively analyze ever-growing volumes of data.
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Faculty Council Hosts Ethical Research Awareness Day, Introduces Ethical Research Standards

Event: Current and past members of the Faculty Council’s Research Policy Committee are hosting The University of Texas at Austin’s first Ethical Research Awareness Day. The goal of the event is to strengthen the ethical research core of the university, call attention to integrity in research and make ethical research standards more visible.

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