UT to Lead $18.5M Engineering Research Center
Two Cockrell School professors will establish center to advance nanomanufacturing systems for mobile computing devices.
Of Mice and Melodies
Singing mice are helping researchers learn how the "language gene" differs between species--information that could help us understand and identify genes that affect language in humans.
The Great Texas Drought
UT scientists are at the forefront of research to make the state better prepared for future water shortages. Check out key lessons from the state's worst single-year drought in history.
Transforming Courses, Learning, and Success
A new way of teaching introductory courses produces results that might surprise you.
Little Longhorns Big on Independent Thinking
First-graders at UT Elementary thrive at project-based learning with exciting results.
Know: Your Connection to a World of Ideas
Two Cockrell School professors will establish center to advance nanomanufacturing systems for mobile computing devices.
Singing mice are helping researchers learn how the "language gene" differs between species--information that could help us understand and identify genes that affect language in humans.
UT scientists are at the forefront of research to make the state better prepared for future water shortages. Check out key lessons from the state's worst single-year drought in history.
A new way of teaching introductory courses produces results that might surprise you.
First-graders at UT Elementary thrive at project-based learning with exciting results.
Know: Your Connection to a World of Ideas

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Longhorn Network earnings fund new endowed chairs
Four new academic chairs draw top scholars in Philosophy, Math, Engineering, and Art History. Three additional chairs still remain to be filled.
UT physicists patent nuclear waste-burning technology
The invention could someday be used to turn nuclear waste into fuel, thus removing the most dangerous forms of waste from the fuel cycle.
McCombs alumnus creates $1 million challenge grant
Pledge from El Paso native Woody L. Hunt will help the Business Honors Program attract more top students from west Texas.
UT's University Health Services ranked no. 3 in nation
The Princeton Review has ranked UHS as the third-best college health service in the United States.
UT Astronomers test Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Research confirms the emission of gravitational waves from the second-strongest known source in our galaxy.
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