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Samuel Scruggs: Student Report from 2017 Alternative Spring Break in Guatemala
We woke up early the next morning to travel to our main destination of the trip, Quetzaltenango. On the way, we stopped at some ancient Mayan ruins and explored the area.
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Megan Lamon: Student Report from 2017 Alternative Spring Break in Guatemala
This was by far the best trip I have ever been on, and I am so very thankful for the opportunity to explore another country and the culture of the people who live there.
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Sarah Higginbotham: Student Report from 2017 Alternative Spring Break in Guatemala
We worked at Escuela Oficial Rural Mixta Pacajá, which is a school for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. There were two main projects while we were there, but the main one I worked on was the construction of a dividing wall between a classroom and a storage closet.
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Trip Report: Alternative Spring Break in Guatemala
The next stop was the archaeological ruins of Iximche, a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site. Iximche was the capital of the Late Postclassic Kaqchikel Maya kingdom from 1470 until its abandonment in 1524.
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Mary Daffron: Student Report from 2017 Alternative Spring Break in Guatemala
The project that we worked on allowed us to directly interact with the people whose lives our work would touch. We worked to help finish a classroom and to design the plans for a second-story addition to one of the other school buildings.
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Heath Harmon: Student Report from 2017 Alternative Spring Break in Guatemala
Climbing winding and narrow mountain roads, we experienced the native culture through language, food, and landscape.
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Slippery When Wet? Not So Fast, Says UT Guest Lecturer from MIT
McKinley’s talk will also focus on the adapting of such extreme water-resistant, or superhydrophobic, materials for use with other solutions, such as oils.
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Women in STEM Symposium Provides Students a Chance to Shine
“The unique thing is that it’s a local professional conference meant to highlight the phenomenal research being conducted here at UT,” said Mallory Ladd, a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow and doctoral candidate in UT’s Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education.
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UT, King Sign Dual Degree Program for Engineering
The dual degree program will allow students meeting certain requirements agreed upon by both universities to spend their first three years at King before being admitted to UT’s Tickle College of Engineering in select areas.
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College Up Three Spots in U.S. News Rankings; Four Programs in Top 30
The Tickle College of Engineering graduate program is now 33rd among public universities in the latest U.S. News and World Report graduate school rankings. That’s a gain of three spots over last year, and an improvement of 17 spots since 2005. “We are seeing some of the gains from our investment in additional, high quality…
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