Today, we are lucky to have graduate student Jenna Baddeley guest blogging for us. Jenna is studying Clinical Psychology and, along with Dr. James Pennebaker, has conducted fascinating research with soldiers at Ft. Hood. Below, she discusses what she has learned about the numerous difficulties these soldiers face when they return home from war.

The Fort Hood community has suffered well-publicized losses in the recent shooting that left thirteen people dead. What is perhaps less obvious is that most members of that community live with unpublicized life-altering losses, both threatened and actual, every day. [Read more →]

The Department of Biomedical Engineering just received a grant from the National Cancer Institute to establish a center to conduct innovative cancer research. Graduate student Hayley Gillespie is giving a talk tomorrow at the Brackenridge Field Laboratory about the endangered Barton Springs Salamander. There will be free jazz music and hot chocolate on the Union Patio on Thursday evening…

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If you’re wondering what to do this weekend, there are several fun and exciting events happening both on campus and around Austin. Below are just a few of the activities you can take part in over the next few days.

Happy Friday! [Read more →]

Renewable energy. Politics. Indigenous languages. Cardiovascular health.

See a pattern? The Graduate School does.

This year, four graduate students from very different fields of study became connected when they were selected as the first recipients of the William C. Powers Graduate Fellowship. [Read more →]

Life Science Library

There are 15 libraries on the University of Texas campus, tables sitting in the sunshine outside of the Texas Union and a Starbucks on 24th Street. There’s a Reading Center at McCombs, numerous study tables downstairs in the Communication building and space in the Dobie Mall across from campus. [Read more →]

If you’ve ever been interested in the non-profit sector or just want to get a little inspired, an exciting opportunity is coming up next Thursday, October 29. A Q & A session with George Srour, founder of the nationally-recognized Building Tomorrow, will take place on the UT campus. [Read more →]

As graduate students know all too well, much of the information we absorb on a daily basis comes to us through some sort of electronic medium. Whether reading a newspaper article on our laptops or perusing restaurant reviews on our iPhones, there’s no argument that the way we get our news and information has changed a great deal just in the last several years.  [Read more →]

Sarah Bird’s favorite description of herself as an author came from a high school student who was forced to attend a literary reading by her English teacher. She says, “Sarah Bird was tall and thin and wore these cute reading glasses on the tip of her nose. If I recall correctly, she forgot her reading glasses and had to borrow somebody’s in the audience.
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Kristine Gloria, a graduate student in Media Studies, attended ACL this past weekend. We talked with her about her Festival experience, including how she dealt with all that mud…

Q: First of all, you are a graduate student in Media Studies, correct? Are you specializing in anything, and how far along are you in your program?
A: Yes, I am a first-year/first-semester MA student in the media studies program in the RTF department. My specialization or area of concentration is copyright and intellectual property. I’m most interested in learning more about the remix culture [of music]: i.e. behaviors, policy, etc.
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It’s that time of year again.

Put on your dancin’ shoes and get ready… the Austin City Limits Music Festival is back.

One of our city’s biggest and most-anticipated yearly events, ACL will be rocking Zilker Park this weekend (October 2-4). Some of this year’s headliners include Kings of Leon, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dave Matthews Band, Thievery Corporation and John Legend, but there is something for everyone with 100-plus acts lined up for the Festival.
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