The mystery writer Charles Latimer meets a Turkish police colonel, who believes that Latimer would be interested in the life of the recently deceased criminal Dimitrios. Latimer is very interested and eventually begins to dig deeper into Dimitrios’s life and criminal career. But things very soon spiral out of control and Latimer is in very deep trouble. This 1939 work is a classic of the thriller genre.
The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. In this revised edition of Health Disparities in the United States, Donald A. Barr provides extensive new data about the ways low socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity interact to create and perpetuate these health disparities.
A tribute to the author’s fierce grandmother blossoms into a family saga brimming with heartache and love. In the first part, Ramírez introduces readers to the resilient women who loomed large in her childhood in El Paso, Texas: her maternal great-grandmother, Máma Lupe; her hardworking mother, Leticia; and, above all, her fiery maternal grandmother, Ita.
Dr. Domino Perez, professor in the Department of English, Dr. Hillary Procknow, and the School of Information’s Dr. Kenneth Fleischmann may not have similar schedules, classrooms, or subject matter, but they have one exciting thing in common. This trio of outstanding faculty and staff members have been selected as this year’s Cale McDowell awardees.
Over three sessions during the daylong event, students presented more than 150 research posters on interdisciplinary topics ranging from civil engineering to anthropology to neuroscience.
On March 7, the Office of Undergraduate Research announced the winners of the eighth annual Texas Student Research Showdown at an award ceremony.
Join us for a graduation celebration honoring all parenting (undergraduate, graduate, professional) and nontraditional undergraduate students! Open to fall 2023, spring, and summer 2024 graduates of all majors, as well as their family and friends. This event will be fun for Longhorns of all ages!
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Read more about Lin and his Signature Course Two to Tango: The Sociology of Interpersonal Relationships.
G. Elliott Morris couldn’t have predicted the arc of his career back when he was a first-year student at The University of Texas at Austin. The Texas native came to the university partially to stay close to family, and partially because he had been in policy debate in high school and liked UT’s program. “That’s not necessarily what I pursued when I was at school, but that’s why I decided to go,” he says with a laugh.
Instead, a pivotal class and research experiences supported by the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR), including an Undergraduate Research Fellowship, jumpstarted a fascination with polling. Since graduating in 2018 with degrees in government and history, he has joined the staff of The Economist as a data journalist and U.S. correspondent and, in July 2022, published his first book, Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them. He has returned to the Forty Acres several times over the past few years as a guest lecturer and now sits down with OUR to discuss how he got to where he is—and how current Longhorns can follow in his footsteps.
Dr. Richard J. Reddick, Senior Vice Provost of Curriculum & Enrollment and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, had a busy first week of classes to kick off the fall semester.
