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As part of its national environmental grant program, Wells Fargo today announced that it has provided a $125,000 grant to the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin that will fund a new Clean Energy track within the 2012 Global Venture Labs Investment Competition (GVLIC).

Event: 1 Semester Startup Demo Day at The University of Texas at Austin

When: Thursday, Dec. 1, 5-9 p.m., open to the public

Where: Red McCombs End Zone Club, Gate 16, Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium

A communications pioneer, an academic leader and an oilman are the newest members of the McCombs School of Business Hall of Fame.

Honorees Jack R. Crosby, William H. Cunningham and James R. Moffett will be inducted at a gala celebration on Oct. 28 at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center.

A poll released today by The University of Texas at Austin found less than 14 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the right direction on energy.

Of more than 3,400 consumers surveyed, 84 percent were worried about U.S. consumption of oil from foreign sources and 76 percent about a lack of progress in developing better ways to use energy efficiently and develop renewable sources.

Executive teams from 10 Texas Venture Labs (TVL) portfolio companies will pitch their ideas to investors at the upcoming Venture Expo Oct. 27.

Louise Epstein and John Henry McDonald are tremendous, long-time, supporters of the Austin Classical Guitar Society, as is the company John Henry founded: Austin Asset Management Company.  The Austin Classical Guitar Society has been on a steady growth trend over the course of the last 15 years but there is no doubt in my mind that a new level of transformation occurred with the arrival of John Henry on the ACGS Board of Directors, and the tremendous energy, vision and support that he and Louise brought w

Melinda Garvey, owner and publisher of AustinWoman magazine, has been named Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, a yearlong appointment that began Sept. 1.

Eric Hirst, the John Arch White Professor of Business at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, will be honored Aug. 9 with the Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award at the American Accounting Association’s (AAA) annual meeting in Denver.

The United States is expected to hit its debt ceiling on or near Aug. 2 and no deal is in place from Congress to raise the debt ceiling.

Economics experts in and out of government have said that if we reach Aug. 2 without having passed legislation to raise the debt ceiling, the U.S. will at worst default on its $1.3 trillion debt and likely will have to stop funding government expenditures.

The University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business prepares to graduate 91 students this Friday from the Halliburton Business Foundations Summer Institute, an eight-week program that exposes non-business majors to the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed as business leaders.