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Matthew Cornelius, Racheal Poole Kane, Elizabeth Joseph, Sherri Greenberg, Noelle Gaughen, Linnea Nasman, and Andrew Phifer. For more than a year, Professor Sherri Greenberg of the LBJ School of...
View ArticleFrom ‘Technopolis’ to ‘Coopetition’
John Sibley Butler director of the IC² Institute spoke on the Place-Based Innovation Plenary Panel at the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative America Meeting in Chicago, June 7, 2012.
View ArticleA Toy’s Story
As you wander the aisles at Target, looking for a baby doll for your favorite niece’s birthday or a new pair of jeans, do you ever stop and consider how all of that merchandise got there? Sure, trucks...
View ArticleTurning Good Ideas Into Reality: What is Social Innovation?
With more than half of new college graduates unemployed or underemployed, the future can seem bleak for young people. But to Suzi Sosa, that 50 percent represents a wealth of innovation and creativity...
View ArticleNew Tools for Teaching Ethics
From Wall Street to Main Street, waves of corporate scandals have made headlines in recent years. Much of the malfeasance has involved good people who were swept up in an unethical tide and lacked the...
View Article2012 Retrospective: Looking Back on a Historic Year
2012 has been a year of historic significance on the Forty Acres. The university green-lighted a new medical school, defended its policies in the Supreme Court, captured two national championships,...
View ArticleUT Racks Up Another High Ranking for Value
After a year focusing on the value of college education, UT enters 2013 with more recognition. UT has been named a top value among public universities by wealth management magazine Kiplinger’s Personal...
View ArticleMcCombs Team Wins FanTAXtic Victory
Members of the winning team celebrate their victory. From left, Scott Huff, Michelle Niakan, David Patterson, David O’Neil and Maggie Hood. The UT Tower will be bathed in orange light on Wednesday to...
View ArticleAdvertising Professors Rate Super Bowl Ads
Remember the ad where a little kid dressed up as Darth Vader uses “the force” to turn on his dad’s car? That Volkwagen spot was among the most-talked-about commercials during the 2011 Super Bowl. The...
View ArticleHeadliners: Invisibility, Immigration, Innovation
Wired magazine discovered engineering professor Andrea Alù’s invisibility cloak. [Image by Leo Reynolds, via Flickr Creative Commons] Researchers, scholars and experts from The University of Texas at...
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