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Content written for UT Austin: A formalized partnership between City of Austin officials and researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has fast-tracked collaborations between the two entities to help find solutions to problems affecting us all – from improving road safety and ensuring water security to protecting Austin’s vibrant cultural scene.

Content written for UT Austin: Profile of UT Austin's first VP of Research, Marye Anne Fox published during Women’s History Month in 2024.

Content written for UT Austin: A new Arts Leadership Curatorial and Collections Internship offered by Art Galleries at Black Studies provides opportunities to enter the fascinating, but highly competitive, world of the museum curator.

There aren’t a lot of professions with as many barriers to entry as the museum sector. From the limited number of openings in the curatorial jobs market, to the modern-day requirement that newer (greener) applicants have a Ph.D. to be even considered, these barriers are further ...

Ghostwritten OpEd for UT Austin engineer: I work with scientists and engineers who wish to write opinion pieces for mainstream media. This piece, published by Dallas Morning News (and 11 other publications), was written by Carlos Torres-Verdin, a petroleum engineer at UT Austin. Dr. Verdin and I also won an award from the Dept of Hispanic and Latino Studies at UT Austin for the article.

Ghostwritten OpEd for UT Austin engineer: I work with scientists and engineers who wish to write opinion pieces for mainstream media. This piece was published by USA Today and was written by Kasey Faust, a civil engineer at UT Austin.

Ghostwritten OpEd for UT Austin biomedical engineer: I work with scientists and engineers who wish to write opinion pieces for mainstream media outlets. This piece was published in The Hill and was written by Dr Tom Yankeelov, a biomedical engineer from UT Austin.

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Maths and physics could provide more answers for cancer than we realise

Medically inclined mathematicians are few and far between. Of those that are around, however, quite a few have been trying to crack the code on the Big C. Photograph: iStock

In 1961 American president John F Kennedy predicted the United States would send a man to the moon within a decade.

Exactly 10 years after that, president Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law, declaring the same energy and resources t...

Interview with evolutionary biologist and author, Richard Dawkins

"The Man Who Shot the Seventies” On the 45th anniversary of the release of his most celebrated album, ‘Transformer’, rock photographer Mick Rock speaks to the Sunday Business Post about the publication of a new limited edition book of photos the photographer compiled with his late friend, confidant and one of rock’s most iconic artists: Lou Reed.

Interview with actor Don Cheadle about his role directing, co-writing and playing the leading role in the Miles Davis biopic 'Miles Ahead'

Nation states are no longer the driving force behind the next space race. Money is
There is a seemingly minor administrative change in the new American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act. Passed unanimously by the US House of Representatives in April, and a key talking point at a recent Secure World Foundation conference on space sustainability held in Washington DC, the new Act gives the commerce department, and not the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), responsibility for space traffic ...

Mick Fleetwood: 'Peter Green is the reason there's ...

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