With a grant from Google Ideas to The University of Texas at Austin, Elkins and his colleagues created Constitute, a new site that digitizes and makes searchable the world's constitutions.
New UT-Austin psychology study shows even preschool children are quick to conform to ritualistic behavior while learning.
New UT-Austin study shows African-American students improve grades and feel less stereotyped as underachievers when teachers convey high standards.
University of Texas at Austin linguistics researcher is developing new methods for helping computers 'learn' natural language.
New study shows that in the wake of a negative event, people are more likely to find clarity by considering the larger picture.
UT English Professor confirms Shakespeare authored 325 additional lines in "The Spanish Tragedy."
University of Texas anthropologists find ancient Miocene ape was physically incapable of walking on two legs.
UT Austin political analyst finds that almost the entire growth in Senate party polarization since the early 1970s can be accounted for by a group of "Gingrich Senators" who previously served in the House after 1978.
Researchers mapped the entrepreneurial personality structures in the United States, Great Britain and Germany, identifying regions where a feeling of entrepreneurial spirit is “most at home.”
Research into evolution of animal and human visual systems leads to free website for enlarging and enhancing photos.
$6.6 million planned gift to boost history graduate student recruitment at the University of Texas at Austin.
Additional gift will nearly double number of full scholarships to top students.
New UT psychology study shows people are more supportive of gun control policy when elected officials base their arguments on broader statistics, rather than isolated incidents.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center of The University of Texas at Austin has been recognized with an outstanding achievement award from the National Invasive Species Council for its outreach and educational initiatives to address non-native, invasive species.
Poll shows large majority of Texans support background checks for all gun purchases, but they are not eager to change existing gun laws.
A new psychology study from The University of Texas at Austin suggests the glue that cements the unique relationship between gay men and straight women is honest, unbiased relationship advice.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center of The University of Texas at Austin has been selected to grow 700,000-plus loblolly pines to restore wildfire-damaged Bastrop County, home of the endangered Houston toad.
New ancient DNA research show Aztec empire altered genetics of the Otomí inhabitants of Xaltocan. It is the first study to provide genetic evidence for the anthropological cold case.
Raising the minimum wage to a living wage begins the cycle of lifting single mothers out of poverty, according to a policy report released by the Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis (IUPRA) at The University of Texas at Austin.
New sociology study from The University of Texas at Austin shows telecommuters are significantly less likely to work a standard 40 hour schedule and more likely to work overtime than their office-working counterparts.
Researchers at UT-Austin are conducting new research on vascular disease and low-light therapy to prevent and reverse dementia before it sets into the brain.
University of Texas at Austin sociologist finds school exclusion policies and lack of support from teachers contribute to high dropout rate among students who have been arrested.
University of Texas at Austin sociologist Chandra Muller and economist Sandra Black have received a $3.2 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study the effects of cognition on health, mortality, education and employment from high school and beyond.
A new anthropology study from UT-Austin is the first to provide a large-scale body of evidence for the “nocturnal bottleneck theory,” which suggests that mammalian sensory traits have been profoundly influenced by an extended period of adaptation to nocturnality during the Mesozoic Era.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved a new doctoral program in Black Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, marking a first for the university, the state of Texas, and the American South and Southwest.
New psychology study from The University of Texas at Austin shows teenagers who wait longer to have sex are more likely to have satisfied romantic relationships later in life.
UT-Austin psychology professors have received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study genetic influences on drinking and other deviant behaviors.
Evolutionary psychology researchers Carin Perilloux and David Buss found significant negative consequences of rape and attempted sexual assault in 13 domains of psychological and social functioning, including self-esteem, social reputation, sexual desire and self-perceived mate value.
The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) has announced eight projects that have achieved certification under the nation’s most comprehensive rating system for the sustainable design, construction and maintenance of built landscapes.
New psychology study shows adults are more likely than children to find supernatural explanations for existential questions.
New UT psychology study shows the reasons why people find logic in magical rituals and the supernatural. The study provides new insight into cognitive reasoning processes — and how people intuitively make sense out of the unknown.
A new psychology study from The University of Texas at Austin found that people associate past memories with novel information. This memory-binding process allows people to better understand new concepts and make future decisions. The findings could lead to better teaching methods, as well as treatment of degenerative neurological disorders, such as dementia.
The nation's food supply may be vulnerable to rapid groundwater depletion from irrigated agriculture, according to a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study paints the highest resolution picture yet of how groundwater depletion varies across space and time in California's Central Valley and the High Plains of the central U.S.
Two geology professors have discovered tiny bits of shrapnel and other microscopic remnants of the D-Day invasion in samples of sand collected on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. The scientists were surprised that these tiny traces survived for decades despite the scouring action of sand and waves, and the rusting action of seawater.
Moncrief Grand Challenge Awards help faculty to conduct research in computational engineering and sciences that affect the competitiveness and international standing of the United States.
Maximum running speed is the most important variable influencing mammalian eye size other than body size, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin.
Pervasive racial bias in American medical practice adversely affects treatment and diagnosis for African American patients, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin.
Timely rains last fall and this winter have benefited early spring wildflowers, which will likely put on a good show in much of Texas despite last year’s drought, according to the senior botanist at The University of Texas at Austin’s Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
Despite notable improvements in educational levels and opportunity during the past three decades, disadvantages associated with race still persist in Brazil, according to new research at The University of Texas at Austin.
Intelligence and smart thinking are not the same, according to University of Texas at Austin psychologist Art Markman, who studies how best to apply knowledge for smarter thinking at work and home.
Despite substantial controversy among academics and policymakers about individuals’ ability to choose complicated drug insurance products, economics research from The University of Texas at Austin has provided evidence that Medicare Part D participants quickly adapt and learn to reduce rates of overspending within the system.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness and Health Literacy Month. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are available to discuss their research on detecting and coping with breast cancer, as well as research that may improve health literacy and enable people to make informed decisions about their overall health and help lower health care costs.
Jeremi Suri, professor in the Department of History and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, mined more than 200 years of U.S. policy to explain the successes and failures of nation-building operations and offer a plan for how to move forward. The findings are detailed in his new book, "Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama" (Simon & Schuster, Sept. 27 2011).
University of Texas at Austin researchers have discovered how to extract and use information in an individual image to determine how far objects are from the focus distance, a feat only accomplished by human and animal visual systems until now.
What do increased atmospheric radioactivity concentrations in Washington state tell us about what happened in the Fukushima nuclear disaster? For ME Associate Professor Steve Biegalski, the story is in the numbers.
In the 10 years since Sept. 11, engineers like University of Texas at Austin Professor Eric Williamson are designing structures and transportation systems that are more resistant to attacks.
Embedding advertisements in violent video games leads to lower brand recall and negative brand attitudes suggesting advertisers should think twice about including such ads in a media campaign, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.
Asserting control over how to communicate—or not communicate—about their illness helps cancer patients overcome feelings of helplessness in a traumatic situation, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.
The words people use are like fingerprints that can reveal their relationships, honesty, or their status in a group, according to research by University of Texas at Austin social psychologist James W. Pennebaker.
Dr. Courtney Byrd established the Developmental Stuttering Lab in 2006 to examine the causes of stuttering and provide evidence-based treatment to children and adults who stutter.
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