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KUT DJ Arrested for DWI New Year's Morning

Austinist  Mon, 01/02/2012 - 2:19pm

KUT DJ Arrested for DWI New Year's Morning We're truly sad to hear that our beloved Laurie Gallardo was arrested early Sunday morning for DWI. According to the Statesman's Blotter, Gallardo drove the wrong way on two one-way streets, and also had an open container in her car's center console.



 

Evening Bat Flights

Planning Ahead, Austin  Fri, 04/01/2011 - 2:33pm

Evening Bat Flight Tours: regularly scheduled interpretive tours available May to mid-October, Wednesday—Sunday.  Space is limited.  Call ahead for reservations. Visitors will be shuttled to the site.  Evening Bat Tours leave about 45 minutes before the bats are expected to emerge and then return to the Visitor’s Center about two hours later



 

Evening Bat Flights

Planning Ahead, Austin  Fri, 04/01/2011 - 2:30pm

Evening Bat Flight Tours: regularly scheduled interpretive tours available May to mid-October, Wednesday—Sunday.  Space is limited.  Call ahead for reservations. Visitors will be shuttled to the site.  Evening Bat Tours leave about 45 minutes before the bats are expected to emerge and then return to the Visitor’s Center about two hours later



 

Brain's center for seeing 3-D is identified

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Tue, 07/21/2009 - 7:55am

Ducking a punch or a thrown spear calls for the power of the human brain to process 3-D motion, and to perceive an object (whether it's offensive or not) moving in three dimensions is critical to survival.

It also leads to a lot of fun at 3-D movies. Neuroscientists have now pinpointed where and how the [...]



 

Community College Students Experiences Documented

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Tue, 02/10/2009 - 11:13am

The University of Texas at Austin's Center for Community College Student Engagement has received almost $1 million in grants to expand its efforts to use student feedback and data to promote community college students' academic success.

MetLife Foundation and Houston Endowment, Inc. awarded the two grants. The $350,000 grant from MetLife Foundation will allow the Center to [...]



 

Team gets $500,000 to tackle urban sustainability

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Mon, 01/26/2009 - 11:23am

An interdisciplinary team composed of faculty and graduate students from four divergent areas at The University of Texas at Austin has received $500,000 from the University of Texas System to develop an integrated approach to solving issues associated with rapid urbanization and sustainability.

The School of Architecture's Center for Sustainable Development and the Lady Bird Johnson [...]



 

New guide to national oil companies released

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Thu, 12/18/2008 - 10:04am

Energy analysts at The University of Texas at Austin's Center for Energy Economics (CEE) and the World Bank have completed the first comprehensive database of 49 National Oil Companies (NOCs), titled "A Citizen's Guide to National Oil Companies." The database is complemented by a technical report containing a preliminary analysis and possible interpretation of the [...]



 

Pre-kindergarteners' science savvy to be studied

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Mon, 10/06/2008 - 10:16am

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded almost $2 million, its first grant focusing specifically on what four-year-olds know about science, to The University of Texas at Austin's Center for Science and Mathematics Education.

The grant is funding a project called Building BLOCKS for Science, which began this September. Data collected during the project will help [...]