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		<title>New center to promote foreign language study</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Susswein</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Department of Middle Eastern Studies]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Esther Raizen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[foreign language]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Randy Diehl]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Texas Language Center]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Garza]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new, first-of-its-kind language center will help develop standards and benchmarks for teaching foreign languages at The University of Texas at Austin and serve as a resource for faculty and departments.
The Texas Language Center (TLC) opened Sept. 1. University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor Thomas L. Garza, a Russian scholar and former chair of the Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture programs receive high rankings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Crossette</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Fritz Steiner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[landscape architecture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin has been ranked fifth in the nation in both its undergraduate and graduate programs by DesignIntelligence, a journal that produces the only recognized rankings for accredited bachelor's and master's programs in architecture in the United States.
The graduate program ranking is the highest achieved by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Undergraduate earns Marshall Scholarship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Oppenheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Kudos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[News Stories]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Andy Ellington]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Liberal Arts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Natural Sciences]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Laude]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Department of English]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Freshman Research Initiative]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grace Eckhoff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Larry Carver]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Arts Honors Programs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Plan II Honors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tuberculosis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.

Eckhoff is a Plan II Honors student in the College of Liberal Arts and an Honors biology major in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marcia Gay Harden is graduation speaker</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/18/gay_harden_commencement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/18/gay_harden_commencement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert D. Meckel</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[127th Spring Commencement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[commencement speaker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marcia Gay Harden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[William Powers Jr.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marcia Gay Harden, the first University of Texas at Austin graduate to receive an Oscar, will be the speaker for the 127th Spring Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin on May 22, 2010.
Her speech will be presented on the university's Main Mall in front of the Tower during a festive ceremony that traditionally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strauss Center is new home for Next Generation Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bobby Inman]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Francis Gavin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Next Generation Project]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law has announced it will become the new base of operations for the Next Generation Project: U. S. Global Policy and the Future of International Institutions, an ambitious, nonpartisan, multiyear initiative started by The American Assembly at Columbia University.
Admiral Bobby R. Inman, USN (Ret.), Strauss Center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study shows how community college students connect</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/18/online_community_college/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/18/online_community_college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Randall</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[achievement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cclp]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Center for Community College Student Engagement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[community college]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[community college leadership program]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Community College Survey of Student Engagement]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[faculty]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[john roueche]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kay McClenney]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[leadership program]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.utexas.edu/news/?p=11887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Community colleges are using online courses, online support services and Web 2.0 social networking tools to increase learning opportunities for non-traditional students, a recently released national report on community college student engagement shows.
The report, titled "Making Connections: Dimensions of Student Engagement," is produced annually by The University of Texas at Austin's Center for Community College [...]]]></description>
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<utnews:identifier>11887</utnews:identifier>
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		<title>University gets $56 million in funding</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/18/arra_grants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/18/arra_grants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Green</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Gore]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ARRA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[biomedical]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[carbon capture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Natural Sciences]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[College of Pharmacy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Energy Frontier Research Center]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environmental]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Juan Sanchez]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nanomaterials]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paul Barbara]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[School of Social Work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sequestration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Texas Advanced Computing Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[University of Texas at Austin researchers have received 123 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grants for nearly $56 million.
The projects are spread among 14 schools and units with many of the projects crossing disciplinary boundaries. They range from research into energy sources and storage devices, environmental questions, biomedical applications, new materials and technologies and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Program aims to improve campus, community service</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/17/ddce_community_engagement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/17/ddce_community_engagement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Blair</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[News Stories]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[community engagement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[DDCE]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Volunteer Service Learning Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Volunteer &#38; Service Learning Center (VSLC), a program of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at The University of Texas at Austin, introduces this month the Community Engagement Collaborative (CEC), a program to document the university's efforts to tackle societal issues such as hunger, homelessness and domestic violence in Austin.
Dr. Gregory J. Vincent, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hogg reports on mental health bills from 81st session</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/17/hogg_mental_health_report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/17/hogg_mental_health_report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrell Foote</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[News Stories]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Division of Diversity and Community Engagement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hogg Foundation for Mental Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[legislation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Texas legislature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Legislative Update is the latest in a series of reports published by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health to inform stakeholders about mental health-related laws considered by the Texas Legislature.

The 53-page online report summarizes the most significant mental health-related bills introduced during the 81st legislative session, which ended June 1, 2009. The report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libraries debuts human rights documentation Web site</title>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/17/libraries_human_rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/17/libraries_human_rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Willmann</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[archive]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bridgeway foundation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[free burma rangers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[texas after violence project]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[University of Texas Libraries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI), a Web site that provides resources for research, highlights human rights-related archival materials at the university, informs the public on HRDI's documentation partnerships and promotes human rights events and research, has been introduced by the University of Texas Libraries.
The site also features a blog to document participant perspectives, project [...]]]></description>
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