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Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: UT Professor Explores Islam and the Founders

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UT history professor Denise A. Spellberg explores what founders like Thomas Jefferson thought of Islam—and what that might teach us about the culture wars still...

 
 

Fixing Congress: LBJ School Report Recommends Reforms

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As we enter Day 10 of the partial government shutdown, Americans’ faith in the U.S. Congress is at an all-time low: a mere 5 percent of respondents in a recent...

 
 

UT Scientists Build Tiny Bacterial Zoos

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It may have exhibits, living creatures, and cages—but this isn’t your average zoo. The cages are made up of a Jell-O like substance and are so small that...

 
 

Building a Better Heart

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A UT researcher’s latest grant is very good news for the 40,000 Americans who undergo surgery every year for one of the most common types of heart disease. Biomedical...

 
 

Mixed Results in New UT Study on Fracking, Methane Emissions [Watch]

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If there’s any scientific subject today more fraught than hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, we’ve yet to hear of it. The controversial...

 
 

Stumbling on a Mystery in the Ransom Center

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How a happenstance discovery in the Ransom Center led one researcher down a winding literary path. This essay first appeared in the New York Times. I was in the...

 
 

Minding His Own Business [Watch]

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UT neuroscientist Russell Poldrack is on a very personal quest to better understand mental disorders. In an era when data-crunching wristbands, mobile apps, and...

 
 

Head Case

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Update, Dec. 4, 2014: In the last week the human brain collection has received a flurry of regional and national media attention, and on Wednesday UT released a...

 
 

Double Vision

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Twin PhD students at UT’s cutting-edge nanomanufacturing center are thinking big—while thinking really, really small. Meghali and Sonali Chopra are identical...

 
 

The Psychology of Shacking Up

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What does your living room reveal about your relationship? Plenty, says UT psychology researcher Lindsay Graham. As I hover over the stove, stirring a pot of pasta,...

 
 
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