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Nov 25, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Avrel Seale
In our new series SEC Connections, we take a look at coincidences, partnerships and parallels between The University of Texas at Austin and our sister schools in the Southeastern Conference. This week, a school that needs no introduction, Texas A&M University. * * *Where to start with this one? Isaac and Esau. William and Harry. Venus and Serena. Sibling rivalries can get intense. But at the end of the day, there’s no denying we’re family.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Avrel Seale
In our new series SEC Connections, we take a quick look at coincidences, partnerships and parallels between The University of Texas at Austin and our sister schools in the Southeastern Conference. This week, The University of Kentucky. * * *Madisen Skinner, named the best volleyball player in the country, has won national championships as both a Wildcat (2020) and a Longhorn (2022 and 2023). Her Kentucky teammate Reagan Rutherford is now her teammate again at Texas.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Avrel Seale
The University of Texas at Austin’s entrepreneurship programs rank No. 2 for undergraduates and No. 7 for graduates, according to the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. The rankings are based on a survey of administrators at nearly 300 schools offering entrepreneurship studies in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Europe.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Avrel Seale
In our new series SEC Connections, we take a quick look at coincidences, partnerships and parallels between The University of Texas at Austin and our sister schools in the Southeastern Conference. This week, The University of Arkansas. * * *OK, let’s deal with this one right out of the gate. Other schools have argued that they have played in “the Game of the Century.” (Notre Dame-Ohio State 1935, Army-Navy 1945, Miami-Penn State 1986).
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Avrel Seale
In our new series SEC Connections, we take a quick look at coincidences, partnerships and parallels between The University of Texas at Austin and our sister schools in the Southeastern Conference. This week, The University of Florida. * * *Texas and especially Austin is home to millions of Mexican free-tailed bats.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Avrel Seale
In our new series SEC Connections, we take a quick look at coincidences, partnerships and parallels between The University of Texas at Austin and our sister schools in the Southeastern Conference. This week, Vanderbilt University. * * *Former Longhorn football coach Mack Brown started his college football career as a running back at Vanderbilt, where he averaged 4.4 yards per carry, including a 156-yard game against Tampa in 1969.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Avrel Seale
The odds of getting colorectal cancer in America are 1 in 25 for women and 1 in 23 for men. Polyps, which are precursors to cancer, can be found and removed with colonoscopies — 15 million of which are performed in the U.S. annually. Colonoscopies are also critical to the diagnosis of Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and other colon and rectal diseases. About 30% of all polyps are precancerous growths called adenomas, but the detection rate of adenomas varies from 7-60%.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Avrel Seale
In our new series SEC Connections, we take a quick look at coincidences, partnerships and parallels between The University of Texas at Austin and our sister schools in the Southeastern Conference. This week, the University of Georgia. * * *Texas and Georgia both have had dogs for mascots. While we all know Georgia’s bulldog mascot is Uga, from 1914 until the first Bevo was introduced in 1916, UT’s mascot was a pit bull named Pig Bellmont, the pet of Athletics Director Theo Bellmont.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Avrel Seale
In our new series SEC Connections, we take a quick look at coincidences, partnerships and parallels between The University of Texas at Austin and our sister schools in the Southeastern Conference. This week, the University of Oklahoma. Each spring, UT’s Texas Advanced Computation Center helps Oklahoma storm chasers. TACC runs fast forecasts of severe storms so researchers can send the tornado chasers out in the right direction at 4 a.m. every morning.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
news.utexas.edu | Avrel Seale
In our new series SEC Connections, we take a quick look at coincidences, partnerships and parallels between The University of Texas at Austin and our sister schools in the Southeastern Conference. This week, Mississippi State. ***Darrell K Royal was head coach at both universities. Royal coached the Bulldogs’ offensive backs in 1952, then returned as head coach in 1953 and 1954. After a season at Washington, Royal began his legendary 19-year-run as head coach and athletics director at Texas in 1957.
