The Belo Foundation of Dallas has awarded The University of Texas at Austin $1.5 million to create the Dallas Morning News Journalism Innovation Endowment, a fund to support digital innovation in the Moody College of Communication School of Journalism.

A panel of journalists and scholars convened Oct. 21 at the inaugural Denius Symposium on News Integrity, a new series launched by the School of Journalism and the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life, to stir conversation in the media about ethical values in the press.

Researcher receives NSF grant to examine preschoolers’ attitudes and continued success in sciencesChildren’s attitudes, knowledge and comprehension of science in preschool often provide the foundation for their future participation and success in the critical fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

How will new technologies and forms of storytelling transform the future of journalism?

KUT 90.5, Austin’s National Public Radio (NPR) station and unit of the Moody College of Communication, was voted “Best Radio Station” in the Austin Chronicle’s Best of Austin 2015 annual readers’ poll.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that a genetic variation in the FOXP2 gene is strongly associated with the ability to learn a foreign language during adulthood. The FOXP2 gene, expressed in the human brain, has been previously implicated in disordered speech and language.

Among countries that developed distinct filmmaking traditions during the 20^th century, Mexico and its “Cine de Oro”—or Golden Age of film—is perhaps the most neglected by audiences and scholars in the United States.