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	<title>News from The University of Texas at Austin</title>
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		<title>Experts available to discuss Fort Hood tragedy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One hundred miles from Fort Hood, The University of Texas at Austin has various experts available to discuss aspects of Thursday’s shooting.
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		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/06/fort_hood/</link>
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		<title>Artist Tony Fitzpatrick gives performance and lecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Event:  Internationally recognized artist Tony Fitzpatrick will give a combination performance and lecture as part of the Department of Art and Art History's Guest Artist in Printmaking Program.
When: Wednesday, Nov. 11, from 5 p.m. &#8212; 7 p.m.
Where: ART Building, Room 1.102
Background: Fitzpatrick's works of art have been collected by the Art Institute of Chicago, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/06/tony_fitzpatrick_performance/</link>
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		<title>Energy economists help Ghana with coming oil boom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UT Austin’s Center for Energy Economics is conducting a “needs assessment” for the oil and gas sector in the west African country of Ghana. The goal is to provide a roadmap for developing the infrastructure and expertise to most effectively manage Ghana’s emerging oil and gas industry.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/06/center_for_energy_economics/</link>
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		<title>Nursing prof inducted into Academy of Nursing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Sharon Horner, professor of nursing at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected a 2009 Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, an organization that promotes health policy and practice.
The academy is composed of about 1,500 nursing leaders in education, management, practice and research. Fellows are chosen annually to recognize their efforts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/06/nursing_fellow/</link>
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		<title>Prof&#039;s film premieres nationwide on public TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Tattooed Under Fire," the documentary film produced and directed by University of Texas at Austin Radio-TV-Film Professor Nancy Schiesari, will premiere on more than 25 public television stations nationwide beginning Nov. 8.
In the heart of central Texas lies the city of Killeen&#8212;home to Fort Hood, America's largest military base. Across the street is River City [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/05/schiesari_tattooed/</link>
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		<title>Scientists find butterflies splitting into two species</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Breaking up may actually not be hard to do, say scientists who've found a population of tropical butterflies that may be on its way to a split into two distinct species.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/05/butterflies_species/</link>
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		<title>New green landscape rating system unveiled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the U.S. Botanic Garden today released the nation's first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without buildings.
The Sustainable Sites Initiative led by the partners [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/05/landscape_rating_system/</link>
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		<title>Psychometric research center created with $1 million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pearson Foundation has announced the creation of a $1 million endowment and long-term partnership with The University of Texas at Austin's College of Education to create the Pearson Center for Applied Psychometric Research, an endowed professorship and an endowed faculty fellowship.
Dr. Barbara G. Dodd, a professor in the College of Education's Department of Educational [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/04/applied_psychometric_research/</link>
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		<title>Conference addresses migrant restrictions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Event: The Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at The University of Texas at Austin presents a three-day conference "Migration during an Era of Restriction."
When: Nov. 4-6
Where: The University of Texas at Austin, Texas Union and the AT&#38;T Executive Education and Conference Center
Background: Through panel presentations and roundtable discussions, scholars and legal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/04/migration_conference/</link>
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		<title>First impressions count when judging personality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.


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		<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/11/03/impressions_personality/</link>
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