Issues: Fall 2010
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A Presidential Visit
Obama Touts Higher Education at Campus Appearance Flashing a “Hook ‘Em” hand sign and touting the importance of higher education, President Barack Obama spoke to hundreds of students, faculty and…
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Q&A: Beauty Shop Politics
Historian Sees Beauty Shops as Birthplace of Activism “While there is a very vibrant scholarship in African American history and African American women’s history, the issue of entrepreneurship is something…
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Avatars in Education
Liberal Arts professors and students use digital environments to explore the possibilities of thinking As universities increasingly explore the educational value of digital environments such as the blogosphere, Google maps…
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Getting Ahead While Giving Back
Liberal Arts students committed to helping others and researchers explain why After Sly Majid graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in government in 2004, he landed…
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Major Gift Makes Liberal Arts Building a Reality
University of Texas alumnus James Mulva supports ROTC programs More than four decades ago, The University of Texas at Austin and its Naval ROTC program gave James Mulva the education,…
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A Towering Mystery Solved
Why ancient alphabets adorn a university icon When then-Harvard University Professor John Huehnergard and his wife and colleague Jo Ann Hackett first visited The University of Texas at Austin last…
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Book News: Fall 2010
Pioneering With A Pen For creating the most vivid and vital portrayal of the American experience in microcosm, Creative Writing graduate Nora Boxer has won the $50,000 Keene Prize for…
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In Memoriam: Fall 2010
Kate Gartner Frost Kate Gartner Frost, professor emeritus of English, died July 25 at age 71. A scholar of the English and European Renaissance, Gartner Frost came to The University…
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Government Department Turns 100
In the age of Obama, the Tea Party and global financial uncertainty, the Government Department is helping its students and the rest of the world make sense of the political…
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Plan II Graduates Can Do it All Over for 75th Anniversary
The Plan II experience will begin next March, as it has for 75 years, with a course in world literature. That will be followed by philosophy, then the junior seminar…
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Population Research Center Draws from Many Fields
When it opened its doors in 1960, the Population Research Center (PRC) was the exclusive domain of sociologists. Who else, after all, was qualified to research demographics, migration issues and…
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Naval ROTC Students Dedicated to Service and Sacrifice
Celebrating 70 Years The Naval ROTC program at The University of Texas at Austin was barely a year old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States was…
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Adventures in Internships
Graduating seniors test the waters in internships around the world The word “internship” often conjures images of frantic coffee runs, mind-numbing busywork and countless hours in front of the copy…
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In Brief: Fall 2010
The Play’s the Thing To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the English Department’s Shakespeare at Winedale program, alumni reunited this summer and performed scenes from several of the Bard’s plays.…
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Border Views
New video series taps university’s expertise on illegal immigration, border violence As Americans continue to debate immigration reform, border enforcement and Arizona’s recent legislation, College of Liberal Arts experts are…
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Digging Up The Past, Close To Home
Artifacts, descendants tell story of freed slaves in Texas Recovering a forgotten history of African American life was motivation enough for anthropology graduate student Nedra Lee and her peers to…
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A New Professor Answers an Old Question About a Great University
Each morning as I head to my office in the Gebauer building, I walk past the classical letters that adorn the outside walls of the Tower. Those letters — in Phoenician,…
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Being Somebody
Humanities Alumna Builds a School in Belize Days before Heidi Baker Curry opened the first high school on the island of Caye Caulker, Belize, in 2008 she received a knock…
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A Veteran’s Dedication
Frank Denius’ commitment helps students understand World War II Each spring, Frank Denius meets with a group of about 20 University of Texas at Austin students who are about to…
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The Son of Texas
W. Parker Frisbie inspires colleagues and students Twenty-five years ago, W. Parker Frisbie stumbled into the field of mortality research by accident. The young sociology professor’s interest in mortality, the…
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The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
Ellen Temple known for commitment to loved ones “Once upon a time, a very special 18-year-old girl came into my life, and she has been there ever since,” Frances Vick…
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For the Greater Good?
Citizens with strong national ties willing to die for countrymen Imagine a runaway trolley hurtling down the tracks toward a handful of people. If it continues on its course, it will…
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Breaking Down the Walls
Interdisciplinary faculty seminar brings University’s resources to the public As one of the worst environmental disasters in history unfolded in the Gulf of Mexico this spring, it was only fitting that…