May 5 Four University of Texas at Austin Students Earn Fulbright Hays Award
Four students at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to participate in the Yoruba Intensive Group Projects Abroad Program (GPA) in Nigeria for summer 2009.May 5 The University of Texas at Austin to Observe "UT Remembers" May 8
UT Remembers, a day of remembrance, will be observed at The University of Texas at Austin on Friday, May 8, honoring 157 members of the university community—students and current and retired faculty and staff—who died during the previous year.May 4 University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing Invited to Screen New Documentary Series on Alzheimer's Disease
The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing has been invited by Home Box Office (HBO) to screen the first of four documentaries in its "The Alzheimer's Project" series.May 4 University of Texas at Austin Biologists and Engineers in $25 Million Project to Develop Jet Fuel from Algal Oil
Biologists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to be a part of a $25 million project that would transform algal oil to jet fuel.May 4 Frida Kahlo's "Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" to Be Displayed at Ransom Center Beginning Cinco de Mayo
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, celebrates the homecoming of one of its most famous and frequently borrowed art works, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's "Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" (1940) on Cinco de Mayo, May 5.May 4 Attraction May Lead People to Appear Funnier, Research Shows
Both sexes are more likely to initiate humor and consider the other person to be funnier if they are attracted to them, according to new research at The University of Texas at Austin.May 1 Biochemistry Senior Wins $20,000 Top Prize in University Co-op George H. Mitchell Student Awards
Yuxuan Wang, a senior majoring in biochemistry, has won the $20,000 grand prize in the 10th annual University Co-op George H. Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence for undergraduate students at The University of Texas at Austin.
