July | August 2012

 

College Degrees Keep the Doctor Away

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Everyone knows that a college degree can help you get a better job. But what about lengthening your life? Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD ’11, and UT sociologists Robert...

 
 

New Deans Get Candid

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In June, the Forty Acres family welcomed Linda Hicke, former Northwestern associate research VP, to lead the College of Natural Sciences, and Ward Farnsworth, former...

 
 

Trends: Acrobatics, Acronyms, Apps, and More

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Draw Something Temple Run may have had its 15 minutes of fame this spring—it was a featured trend in our March|April issue— but it’s now an app of the past....

 
 

The GPS Dot: Friend or Foe?

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In the beginning of the 2006 blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, Professor Robert Langdon, played by Tom Hanks, reaches cautiously into his pants pocket, delicately...

 
 
Talk Back: Responses to our May|June Issue

Talk Back: Responses to our May|June Issue

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{ May | June 2012 } “The ‘D’ Word” Our cover story on drought prompted everything from praise to complaint to a down-home Texas comeback. Juli Berwald called...

 
 

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Reading, Writing, & Revolution

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You’ve never taken a flipped class, but your kids and grandkids will. In this learning revolution, homework and classwork are being switched, teachers are...

 
 

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Come Hotel or High Water

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A West Texan turned urban tastemaker, hotelier Liz Lambert combines a rancher’s steely drive with a South Austinite’s laid-back cool. After kick-starting the...

 
 

Alumni Authors: From James Madison to the Blues

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—RECENTLY PUBLISHED— Letters to Alice: Birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch Dynasty by Jane Clements Monday, BS ’63, Distinguished Alumna, and Frances Brannen Vick,...

 
 

Learn to Crack the Maya Code [Watch]

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As darkness fell over Antigua, Guatemala, UT Maya expert David Stuart (“Secrets of the Maya,” July|August 2012) and I sat in rocking chairs at UT’s...

 
 

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Secrets of the Maya

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Could the world really end in 2012—a date referenced on a Maya calendar? The UT expert who helped crack the Maya code says the truth is wilder than you know. [Watch...

 
 
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