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Bioethicists Call For Heightened Oversight of Genetic Ancestry Testing
A team of bioethics and anthropology researchers from Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Texas at Austin, New York University, and the University of Wisconsin argued that a sound public policy should be developed around existing geneti...
Thu, Jul 2 | from GenomeWeb
University of Texas Austin Utilities Chief to Chair International District Energy Association Board:
ARLINGTON, VA.----Juan Ontiveros of The University of Texas at Austin was elected 2009-2010 chair of the International District Energy Association at the organization's annual meeting held yesterday during its 100th Annual Conference & Trade Show in Arlington, Va.
Wed, Jul 1 | from Yahoo! Finance
UT Austin professor to receive prize for distinguished service
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ) J. Tinsley Oden will receive the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession on Tuesday, July 7 during the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Denver. Oden, director of ICES at the University...
Tue, Jun 30 | from EurekAlert
University of Texas Team Automates Sequence Alignment, Phylogenetic Tree Generation
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new method — dubbed simultaneous alignment and tree estimation, or SATé — for estimating DNA alignment as a phylogenetic tree is constructed.
Thu, Jun 18 | from GenomeWeb
SSPEED Center wins $1.25M for Ike study - EurekAlert
press release), DC SSPEED's partner institutions include the University of Houston (UH), the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, Texas Southern University, Texas A&M University at Galveston, the University of Texas at Brownsville, Louisiana State ...
Wed, Jun 17 | from EurekAlert
Bettering admissions
TX Rick Perry signed Senate Bill 175 as expected, the new law will put a cap on the portion of the incoming freshman class automatically admitted to UT-Austin by the top 10 percent rule at 75 percent, and we will be able to say that lawmakers in the Texas ...
Thu, Jun 11 | from UT The Daily Texan
Royal Dutch Shell plc Announces New Senior Management Structure - PR Newswire
PR Newswire (press release), NY Marvin Odum joined Shell in 1982, and has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Houston . He has worked in a variety of upstream ...
Wed, May 27 | from prnewswire.com
Texas Relays weekend clearing hurdles
TX Perhaps it would be a good weekend for area colleges — UT, Austin Community College, St. Edward's, Concordia and Huston-Tillotson — to design events that draw youths to college campuses, such as step-show or poetry slam competitions. ...
Sat, May 2 | from Austin American-Statesman
US News & World Report release 2009 Business School Overall and Categorical rankings
5 Harvard University Boston, MA 6 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI 7 University of Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL 8 Columbia University New York, NY 9 University of California--Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA 10 University of Texas--Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX
Mon, Apr 27 | from Journey to my MBA
The value of a public education
TX The old adage seems to also ring true for Texas Lutheran University’s new scholarship program, which is designed to lure prospective freshmen away from UT-Austin and Texas A&M University with the promise of a private school education at a public school ...
Sun, Mar 8 | from UT The Daily Texan
TLU creates scholarship to attract UT, Texas A&M students
Texas Lutheran University has launched a new scholarship program designed to lure away students from the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University in College Station.
Fri, Mar 6 | from Bizjournals.com
Opinion: Larue Barnes: A chance to pray together
TX - He graduated from Cleburne High in 1955 and attended the University of Texas at Austin one year, then transferred to Texas Christian University. ...
Mon, Jan 19 | from Cleburne Times-Review
In Texas, First Amendment Imperiled in 2008
Indeed, FIRE opened and closed 2008 with Texas on our mind. In January, Texas Southern University was FIRE’s Speech Code of the Month. Texas Southern’s Student Code of Conduct prohibits “intentional mental or physical harm,” which it defines as follows:
Thu, Jan 1 | from FIRE
Houston Lawyer Tells of The Joys of Surfing a Partisan Wave Into Office
Both my parents immigrated from India. My dad has been in the U.S. military for 26 years. Because my dad was in the military, I’ve lived everywhere, but the majority of time in Texas. I graduated from the University of Texas, Austin, and then the University of Houston Law Center. I had a bout with ca...
Wed, Nov 19 | from WSJ.com
Opinion: Female Professors at U. of Texas-Austin Earn $9,000 Less Than Male Peers
Female professors at the University of Texas at Austin earned an average of $9,028 less than their male counterparts in 2007, and senior female faculty members there feel more isolated and less recognized for their work than do their male colleagues.
Wed, Nov 5 | from Chronicle of Higher Education
Opinion: With Election Weeks Away, Political Speech Under Attack on America’s Campuses
In addition to the situations at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Illinois, FIRE has monitored bans on political expression at several other institutions in the past few weeks. At the University of Texas at Austin (UT), two students were threatened with disciplinary act...
Wed, Oct 15 | from FIRE
