Austin has a reputation for great outdoor spaces for hiking, canoeing, tossing Frisbees and more. Partly because of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the city known as a green energy leader is also making its mark as a place with innovative green landscapes that are as functional as they are beautiful.
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A rise in minority power, women's rights, gay rights and the use of the immigration debate by radical-right ideologues has created a "skin-head Mecca" in the United States, says a national hate-crimes expert.
Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) Intelligence Project, and said the center has documented 888 hate [...]
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In The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, an exceptional team of health educators has built a reputation for conducting cutting-edge research on topics that define an individual's or community's quality of life and vigorously promoting to the public the best practices for achieving optimal health.
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In our quest to become the nation's best public university, we depend on four main sources of financial support. Tuition, state funding, research awards, and philanthropy are all important.
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When Katherine Cronkite, 58, discovered she had a learning disability four years ago, she had no idea it was the cause of her 20-year history of depression. Cronkite, a graduate student in the School of Social Work, was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) in 2004 and major depression in her early 30s.
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McCombs School of Business Dean Tom Gilligan hosted a lively discussion on the current economic crisis threatening America’s financial stability as well as the global economy on Oct. 3 just as Congress moved to pass a $700 billion taxpayer-funded rescue bill.
Finance faculty Laura Starks, Stephen Magee, Sheridan Titman, Jay Hartzell, Michael Brandl and Keith Brown [...]
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Bugao Xu, chairman of the Division of Textiles and Apparel in the School of Human Ecology, is bringing the world of "The Jetsons" closer to reality.
Xu is developing a system to perform body scanning, body modeling, body measurement and virtual try-on for the apparel industry. When it's completed he expects people to step into a [...]
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Millions of people have walked on the hallowed ground of the Alamo, touching the walls of the shrine where heroes like Davy Crockett, James Bowie and William Travis once fought for freedom. The limestone walls of the old church building, known today as "The Shrine of Texas Liberty," dedicated to the men who fell in defense of the Alamo," have not been cleaned in about 250 years and it shows. More than 2.5 million people visit the Alamo each year and the millions of hands that have touched the walls of the shrine have left a build-up of oily film and dark stains.
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In a rare combination of advanced technology and sophisticated hospitality, the university's new AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center shines as a residential learning environment. Bringing to life the university's academic mission to drive economic and social progress in Texas, the nation and the world, this new meeting facility has spurred an awakening of opportunities [...]
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The 125th birthday of The University of Texas at Austin is a time to celebrate the many successes of the university, but it also is a time to take stock of challenges, which "are considerable as well," President William Powers Jr. said Sept. 17, in his President's State of the University Address to an audience [...]
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