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Dell Medical School Names Its First Dean: Clay Johnston

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After 130 years, UT-Austin is finally getting its own medical school. And this morning it got a leader: inaugural dean Clay Johnston. “I am truly grateful...

 
 

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UT Scholar Tells Forgotten Story of African-American Psychiatric Patients

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Mental illness has a dark history in the United States—one too often clouded by stigma and ignorance. Now a UT researcher is uncovering the records of tens of...

 
 

UT Libraries Scores Treasure Trove of Music

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UT music lovers are in for quite a treat. A collection of nearly 60,000 CDs and more than 4,000 LPs from past decades is the newest and grooviest addition to the...

 
 
Football Off to a Strong Start as Coach Sets Expectations

Football Off to a Strong Start as Coach Sets Expectations

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Charlie Strong doesn’t just want the best players. He wants the best student-athletes on his roster. Responsible leadership was the theme of the new football...

 
 

Red Raider Proposes to Longhorn; No Tortillas Thrown [Watch]

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No matter how intense the UT-Texas Tech rivalry is—or how many tortillas Tech fans toss on the field when the Horns visit Lubbock—it’s not strong enough...

 
 
Paine: Higher Ed is About More Than Information Delivery

Paine: Higher Ed Is About More Than Information Delivery

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This piece originally ran in the Austin American Statesman on Jan. 11, 2014. Let me start by admitting my bias. I have been a university administrator for more...

 
 

Charlie Strong Named Texas’ Next Head Football Coach

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It’s official: the University of Louisville’s head coach of four years, Charlie Strong, is coming to Texas. Following in the footsteps of 16-year UT...

 
 

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Operation Diplomacy

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With the military carrying out much of U.S. foreign policy, two UT scholars look at the vanishing role of the American diplomat. As American forces withdraw...

 
 

Go West

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Five Longhorns set out on a 10-day, 4,000-mile journey to explore the great Earthworks of the American Southwest. The result: a new art exhibit at UT’s Visual...

 
 

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The Immortals

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Bobby Layne and Doak Walker met on a high school football field, played with and against each other for decades, and had a friendship that changed the game of college...

 
 
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