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The audience listens as the Gazelle team presents to local stakeholders in Botswana.

These UT Sophomores Started a Company That Incentivizes Sustainability

January 17, 2023 by Nathan Han

The idea: an app to help ranchers in Botswana make data-driven decisions about grazing allocation on their land. Inspiration: discussions among friends at Kinsolving that evolved into the student-run startup company Gazelle Ecosolutions. It’s taken Mihir Bendre, along with sophomores Amod Daherkar and Siddharth Thakur, across the globe, from the national Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge competition in San Diego to six weeks of intensive research and field testing in Botswana.

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Talking to Julieta Suárez Calderón, 2022 Randy Diehl Prize Winner

July 1, 2022 by Johnny Holden

The $18,000 award, now in its seventh year, was established by donors to support a graduating liberal arts senior who is committing the year after graduation to effect positive change in the world by working for a nonprofit organization, working for a for-profit organization that benefits others, or creating a new nonprofit.

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Plan II, NROTC Student Receives British Marshall Scholarship

December 2, 2014 by Emily Nielsen

Mark Jbeily, a Plan II Honors and Naval ROTC senior at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a 2015 British Marshall Scholar. The Marshall Scholarship will fund Jbeily’s pursuit of a Master of Philosophy in International Relations at the University of Oxford in England. The scholarship, which is awarded to no more […]

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Spring/Summer 2014 Student Awards

May 2, 2014 by Emily Nielsen

July Elizabeth Smith, a psychology graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a Summer Student Fellowship from the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF) to study medical interventions for Parkinson’s disease. Her project, titled “Methylene Blue as a Treatment for Motor & Cognitive Deficits in a Rodent Model of Parkinson’s,” was selected […]

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Liberal Arts Honors Student Awarded Truman Scholarship

April 12, 2013 by Jessica Sinn

Jordan Metoyer, a Liberal Arts Honors junior majoring in urban studies and economics at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship. Metoyer was one of 62 scholars from among 629 candidates nominated by 293 colleges and universities. Recipients must have outstanding leadership potential and communication skills, be […]

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Spring/Summer 2012 Student Awards

November 1, 2012 by Jessica Sinn

 SEPTEMBER The College of Liberal Arts has honored two students with a Larry Temple Scholarship. The 2012-13 Larry Temple Scholarship winners are: William Hoenig, a Plan II Honors sophomore majoring in electrical engineering and economics; and Nicole Kruijs, a Plan II Honors sophomore majoring in public health. Go to this website for more details. The Asian […]

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