A printer’s ornament on the title pages of William Shakespeare's earliest works suggests that from an early stage in his career, the poet received significant support in fashioning a unique brand.
A new study by a linguistics professor and an alumnus from The University of Texas at Austin sheds light on a well-known linguistic characteristic of autistic children — their reluctance to use pronouns — paving the way for more accurate diagnostics.
Most areas of Texas should have great wildflower blooms this spring, and some areas already have a great show started thanks to intermittent rains since last fall, according to a restoration ecologist at The University of Texas at Austin's Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) program has certified sustainable landscapes at a dozen new locations across the country for meeting rigorous standards for environmental design and performance. These 12 landscapes include a historic Maryland home of George Washington, a pocket park in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, and a public children’s garden in Austin, Texas.
A psychology study from The University of Texas at Austin sheds new light on today’s standards of beauty, attributing modern men’s preferences for women with a curvy backside to prehistoric influences.
The Hogg Foundation of Mental Health has created a free comprehensive guidebook on Texas’ entire mental health care system. The goal of the book is twofold: To help consumers of mental health understand their options, and to help policymakers and advocacy groups build a case for increasing more state funding for services and programs.
Texas Venture Labs will award two scholarships valued at $50,000 each during a shark-tank style pitch competition for student entrepreneurs who pursue their MBA degrees at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze deposits of frozen methane under the Gulf of Mexico that hold enormous potential to increase the world’s energy supply.
New UT Austin study shows women are more likely than men to become obese in midlife due to socioeconomic disadvantage
UT Austin's new Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies will offer Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs this fall followed by doctoral degrees in the near future.
A trio of trailblazing women will act as role models and mentors for startup- minded students at the McCombs School of Business.
A free mobile app called TX Invasives is now available from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin for identifying harmful non-native plant, insect and other invasive species statewide.
The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) program has certified four new landscapes that are a pocket park in Washington state, a mixed-use development in northern California, a historic Civil-War era preserve in New York, and the headquarters of an architecture firm in Georgia.
Researchers are working to protect consumer data by using companies spam volume to evaluate its security vulnerability through the SpamRankings.net project.
According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, consumers are less satisfied with what they have purchased with their bottom dollar compared to when they have money in the bank.
UT Austin is now home to Partners for Languages in the United States (PLUS), a nonprofit member-based organization designed to advance language education to the highest levels of professional proficiency.
UT Austin policy report shows that among the ten fastest-growing major cities in the United States, Austin stood out in one crucial respect: it was the only such city that suffered a net loss in its African- American population.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center of The University of Texas at Austin will host a grand opening celebration for the new Luci and Ian Family Garden, named for Luci Baines Johnson and Ian Turpin. The 4.5-acre addition is a family destination with more than a dozen interactive features designed to foster hands-on, creative play and learning in nature.
Children learn more effectively when they are asked to explain and explore, new UT Austin research shows
According to a new study, over the past couple of decades, global coffee production has been shifting towards a more intensive, less environmentally friendly style. That's pretty surprising if you live in the U.S. and you've gone to the grocery store or Starbucks, where sales of environmentally and socially conscious coffees have risen sharply and now account for half of all U.S. coffee sales by economic value.
New UT Austin study finds childhood adversity launches a lifelong process of relationship and health disadvantage for African-American men.
A new study correlating brain activity with how people make decisions suggests that when individuals engage in risky behavior, such as drunk driving or unsafe sex, it’s probably not because their brains’ desire systems are too active, but because their self-control systems are not active enough. This might have implications for how health experts treat mental illness and addiction or how the legal system assesses a criminal’s likelihood of committing another crime.
Foodways Texas, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, promoting and honoring the Lone Star State’s unique food cultures, has moved to the American Studies Department at UT Austin.
The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) program has certified landscapes at a federal courthouse in New Mexico, a Washington, D.C. elementary school, a campus plaza in Washington, D.C., and an urban plaza in Washington state.
UT professor King Davis is leading a project to digitize and preserve records from the archive of the world’s first mental institution for African Americans.
Psychology researchers find parents set themselves up for speech errors when they give their children similar-sounding names.
Exercise can benefit health and improve mood, and now new research shows that it has the potential to restore sexual desire and function in women adversely affected by sexual side effects related to antidepressant use.
UT Austin study finds daily online quizzes help students of all socioeconomic backgrounds improve grades.
New study shows peer groups formed in shared high school classes significantly affect students' academic performance.
Psychology and neurobiology researchers develop new brain imaging model to examine how memories are used in decision making.
Personality research shows outright requests, rather than the Door-in-the-Face strategy may be more effective for fundraisers.
Psychology researchers find people with similar personality types are so likely to cluster in certain areas of the United States.
A mixture of native grasses that requires less maintenance to produce a lush lawn than a traditional turfgrass used in the South has been developed by a University of Texas at Austin ecologist and licensed to a sod producer. Known as HabitufTM, the native lawn mix was developed by the university’s Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. The university has given a 10-year, nonexclusive license for Habiturf to Bladerunner Farms of Poteet, Texas.
New psychology research shows how genes can be stimulated or suppressed depending on the child's environment and could help bridge the achievement gap between rich and poor students.
UT Austin anthropologists confirm a direct link between upright two-legged (bipedal) walking and the position of the foramen magnum, a hole in the base of the skull that transmits the spinal cord.
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.
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