The Texas Language Center has announced the 2010 Professional Development Award recipients. These awards are made to instructors of languages other than English at UT who are seeking to develop new materials, courses, or methods for teaching their languages, or who may need to attend a conference or purchase materials in order to improve their teaching.
Dr. Daniel T. Slesnick, associate dean for research and technology in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin, has been appointed the university's vice provost for resource management.
Frank Denius, W. Parker Frisbie and Ellen Clarke Temple have been slected to receive the 2010 Pro Bene Meritis award, the highest honor bestowed by the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. The recipients will be honored at an awards dinner on April 22 at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center.
A fossil that was celebrated last year as a possible "missing link" between humans and early primates is actually a forebearer of modern-day lemurs and lorises, according to two papers by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin, Duke University and the University of Chicago. In an article now available online in the Journal of Human Evolution, four scientists present evidence that the 47-million-year-old Darwinius masillae is not a haplorhine primate like humans, apes and
Event: "Republics of Fear: Understanding Endemic Violence in Latin America Today" When: Thursday and Friday, March 4-5, registration begins at 8:30 a.m., with opening remarks at 9 a.m. Where: Santa Rita Room, Texas Union 3.502 Background: The third annual Lozano Long conference will host panels on topics such as gender violence, human trafficking, forced migration, discrimination and the responses to violence by the media, in literature, films and public discourse.
People may develop distorted views of certain types of people, places or experiences depending on how they compare those categories during the learning process, according to new research at The University of Texas at Austin.
The University of Texas at Austin has created a new academic department devoted to studying the experiences of African Americans, indigenous Africans and people of African descent around the world and an affiliated institute that will focus on urban policy.
There really is a difference between "dog people" and "cat people," according to new research from a University of Texas at Austin psychologist.
The less you use your brain's frontal lobes, the more you see yourself through rose-colored glasses, a University of Texas at Austin researcher says.
Oscar Casares, assistant professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin, is the author of "Amigoland," which was announced as the ninth annual selection for the Mayor's Book Club at a press conference on Wednesday, Dec. 9, at City Hall in downtown Austin.
The Jody Conradt Endowed Excellence Fund has been established at The University of Texas of Austin to inspire and instruct students on the importance of leadership and equity and to promote faculty research in that area.
Online social networks such as Facebook are being used to express and communicate real personality, instead of an idealized virtual identity, according to new research from psychologist Sam Gosling at The University of Texas at Austin.
Grace Eckhoff, an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a Marshall Scholar, one of 40 scholars from across the nation who earned the scholarship to study abroad in the United Kingdom.
Sleep deprivation adversely affects automatic, accurate responses and can lead to potentially devastating errors, a finding of particular concern among firefighters, police officers, soldiers and others who work in a sleep-deprived state, University of Texas at Austin researchers say.
First impressions do matter when it comes to communicating personality through appearance, according to new research by psychologists Laura Naumann of Sonoma State University and Sam Gosling of The University of Texas at Austin.
Shannon Speed, associate professor of anthropology, has been named assistant vice president for community engagement in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE) at The University of Texas at Austin.
The Texas Tribune, a new non-profit, nonpartisan public media organization based in Austin, will sponsor five public opinion polls that will be conducted over the next 16 months by The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Politics Project.
Six faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to receive the President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award for 2009-2010 for demonstrating a consistent level of excellence in teaching.
Event: The Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) at The University of Texas at Austin presents "SIGLO XXI Modern Movimientos Danza: A Symposium on Chicano Dance." When: Oct. 16-17, 1-8 p.m. Where: Various locations on The University of Texas at Austin campus. Friday, Oct. 16: Texas Union, Santa Rita Room. Saturday, Oct. 17: Anna Hiss Gymnasium, Dance Studio and F. Loren Winship Drama Building, B. Iden Payne Theater.
The 2010 Texas governor's race promises to be an historic contest as U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison challenges incumbent Rick Perry for the Republican nomination and several Democrats vie to run against the GOP candidate next November.
Cynthia Buckley, chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and associate professor in the Department of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a $960,345 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her project titled "People, Power, and Conflict in the Eurasian Migration System."
University of Texas at Austin anthropologist Liza Shapiro and two fellow researchers on Thursday won an Ig Nobel Prize--dedicated to "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think"--for a 2007 study on the evolutionary reasons pregnant women don't tip over.
Although past research has linked academic achievement gains to socioeconomic desegregation in schools, a new analysis reveals some hidden academic and psychological risks of integrating low-income students in schools with predominantly middle- and upper-class student populations that might chip away at these achievement gains.
Challenging the idea that women's sexual motivations are tied exclusively to romantic emotions or reproduction, a new study by psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin found women's sexual decisions are motivated by a shocking array of reasons that range from the mundane ("I was bored") to a sense of adventure ("I wanted to know what it was like before getting married"), and from the altruistic ("I felt sorry for him") to the borderline evil ("I wanted to...
