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The people, programs, collections, research and discoveries at UT bring our campus to life. Read more about the university’s Diverse People and Ideas in these feature stories.
- Politics In The Pews: Researchers explore the role of religion in mobilizing African American and Latino voters
- Exploring All the Options: With help of mentors, students find new paths to graduate school
- Primary Education: From their views on the White House to the playground, children need mentors’ help to reject stereotypes
- La Llorona's Revenge: The wailing ghost of the Southwest haunts canvasses, celluloid and cyberspace
- Dia de los Muertos: Unearthing Mexico's national holiday reveals celebrations that keep the dead among the living
- Exploring All the Options: With help of mentors, students find new paths to graduate school
- Testing Identity: Researcher develops tools to remedy race, gender gaps in standardized test performance
- Real to Reel: Documentary Center faculty, students train lenses on issues of war, labor and marginalized people
- Building a Legacy: Following historic enrollment, African American architect John Saunders Chase lays foundation of firsts
- Listen in on History: Untold stories of African American experience in Austin preserved in oral history project
- The Changing Faces of Adoption: Combining ethnicities and cultures, modern adoption approaches can foster loving families, researchers say
- Translating the Arab World: Language, religion and culture are keys to understanding diverse region, scholars say
- Digging It: Science academy inspires underrepresented students and next generation of earth scientists
- Pasion por Peliculas: Film professor examines how Latinos are countering stereotypes in Hollywood cinema
- By the Book: National reading program helps Native communities increase literacy skills, preserve culture
- Mixed Messages: Billboards, other communications encountered in neighborhoods linked to racial inequalities in health
- Getting in the Global Groove: Professor examines how music genre unified a youth subculture
- Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Researchers help indigenous communities in Ecuador manage their land and protect region’s critical resources
- Beauty and the Business: Professor explores political, social legacy of African American women beauticians, salon owners
- Generations to Come: Researcher examines options for Latino elders as economic realities challenge family traditions
- Rhapsody in East Austin: Artist’s mosaic mural captures community’s African American heritage
- Diagnosing Disparities: Professor champions equal access to breast cancer screening to save African American women’s lives
- Getting in the Global Groove: Professor examines how music genre unified a youth subculture
- Marching on Memphis: Professor looks at how decades of discrimination fueled pivotal fight for civil rights
- No Average Student: Community college students not your ‘typical’ undergrads, says College of Education survey
- On a Deadline: Knight Center works to advance press freedom in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Streets Full of Stories: Film students document richness of East Austin’s diverse and changing communities
- Uncommon Vision: Blind student focuses on her goal to become elementary school teacher
- Water and Peace: LBJ School professor advances diplomacy in the Middle East through environmental policy
- What Good Comes of Suffering?: Fellowship for future teachers sparks community crusade against intolerance
- Black Business is Her Business: With an eye on the future, researcher traces African American entrepreneurship back before the Civil War
- An Anime Explosion: Challenging themes, complex characters make Japanese animation a global phenomenon
- Beyond Bars: Special Girl Scout troop helps young women connect with their mothers in prison
- A Moving Education: Migrant Student Program has helped 15,000 students pursue their high school diplomas
- War Stories: World War II generation Latinos share memories through national journalism project
- From Black and White to Color: Despite progress, obstacles remain on road to equal rights, scholars say
- What’s in a Name?: Professor takes on roles of Romani activist and spokesperson to improve plight of his ethnic group
- Studying a Hip Hop Nation: Pop culture phenomenon at the intersection of race, media and youth
- A Voice That Could Not Be Stilled: Barbara Jordan’s legacy of equality and justice
- Behind the Veil: Professor reveals its political, religious and cultural significance
- Family Ties: Program unites Hispanic mothers and daughters on the path to academic success
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- Abraham Marcus , director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Alejandro Junco de la Vega and the Independent Press in Mexico
- Américo Paredes
- Barbara Smith Conrad , mezzo-soprano and civil rights pioneer
- Charles Ramírez Berg , Professor Paradiso
- Heman Marion Sweatt and the legal challenge that integrated The University of Texas
- Minority Enrollment at The University of Texas at Austin : The Hopwood ruling and its aftermath
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