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unusual facts about the University of Texas at Austin



Deep homology

In early 2010, a team at The University of Texas at Austin led by Edward Marcotte developed an algorithm that identifies deeply homologous genetic modules in unicellular organisms, plants, and non-human animals based on phenotypes (such as traits and developmental defects).

Ian Pedigo

He studied art at the University of Texas at Austin with a focus on installation and sculpture, as well as in 2001 at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Art, under the instructors Ilya Kabakov & Emilia Kabakov and the theorist/critic Boris Groys.

J Strother Moore

He is currently the Admiral B.R. Inman Centennial Chair in Computing Theory at The University of Texas at Austin.

Jonathan Islas

While in college at The University of Texas at Austin, he became involved with theatre arts and graduated with a bachelor's degree.

K-Bob's Steakhouse

A graduate in accounting from The University of Texas at Austin and in law from Texas Tech University, Tinsley, an attorney, has ranching, petroleum and natural gas interests in Lincoln County, New Mexico.

Kirk Dressendorfer

He graduated from Pearland High School and is an alumnus of The University of Texas at Austin.

Nikki Loftin

Born and raised in Central Texas, she attended The University of Texas at Austin for both her Bachelor of Arts (French, BA, '92) and Master of Arts (English/Fiction Writing, MA, '98) degrees.

Petroleum Institute

The university is partnered with the following universities: Colorado School of Mines (CSM), Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, University of Maryland, University of Minnesota, The University of Texas at Austin, Rice University and China University of Petroleum.

Round Top, Texas

Shakespeare at Winedale — Shakespeare-in-Performance study program administered by The University of Texas at Austin English Department

Thomas W. Gilligan

Thomas W. Gilligan is the dean of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

After a nationwide search, Gilligan was appointed dean of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

Zacatón

Additional co-investigators on the Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer (DEPTHX) team included Carnegie Mellon University, Southwest Research Institute, Colorado School of Mines, The University of Arizona, and the University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences.


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Chris D. Thomas

He completed his first degree (BA) in Applied Biology at the University of Cambridge, followed by an MSc in Ecology at the University of Bangor and a PhD at the University of Texas at Austin.

Derrick Johnson

Johnson enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin, and played for coach Mack Brown's Texas Longhorns football team from 2001 to 2004 and became one of the most dominant linebackers in Longhorns history.

Estuaries and Coasts

The co-editors-in-chief are Iris Anderson (Virginia Institute of Marine Science) and Wayne Gardner (The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute).

J. Frank Dobie

Two fellowships of six months each are awarded by a committee chosen by the presidents of the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters.

John Sharp

John M. Sharp, professor of geology at The University of Texas at Austin

Jonathan Meiburg

After a year spent in such diverse places as the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, the Aboriginal settlement of Kowanyama in Australia, the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, and the Inuit settlement of Kimmirut in Baffin Island, Canada, he enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a master's degree in Geography and wrote a thesis titled "The Biogeography of Striated Caracaras (Phalcoboenus australis)".

Louis H. Mackey

In 1987 he won the Harry Ransom Award for Teaching Excellence at the University of Texas at Austin

Lowell Mick White

In 1998, White was awarded the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters, a six-month residency at a ranch formerly belonging to writer J. Frank Dobie, an honor that has previously gone to such Texas writers as Sandra Cisneros, Dagoberto Gilb, and Oscar Casares.

Rob Todd

Todd was born in Kirksville, Missouri, and attended the University of Texas at Austin and the South Texas College of Law.

Stephen Martin

Stephen F. Martin, American chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin

TACC

Texas Advanced Computing Center, a research center at the University of Texas at Austin

Virginia Opera

The company has produced notable world and American premieres of new works, including most recently American composer Ricky Ian Gordon's Rappahannock County, a Civil War song cycle co-commissioned by Virginia Opera, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Modlin Center of the University of Richmond, and the University of Texas at Austin.

William S. Livingston

During his tenure, he received Ford and Guggenheim Fellowships, chaired two departments, developed numerous programs and served as Dean of the Graduate School and acting President of the University of Texas at Austin.