Isabel Cunha is on sabbatical in Austin for four months. Her research goals include, among other topics, a digital media bibliography and an analysis of the ways in which fiction products can promote digital literacy.

Three Portuguese artists presented a live remix of audio and video from the Future Places festival at a showcase during SXSW Interactive 2010 in Austin.

The ZON intensive Script Development Lab at UT Austin will offer advanced training in film scriptwriting, direction and production for ten students from Portuguese universities.

The UT Austin|Portugal Program will be represented at the education fair Futurália, March 10-13 at FIL, in Lisbon

António Câmara will discuss augmented reality in the lecture “Rosa Púrpura do Cairo ao Contrário” on Wednesday, February 24, in Auditorium II of FCSH/UNL (Av. De Berna 26) at 6pm.  His talk will be the first in a new monthly lecture series at FCSH.

Dr. Derek Lackaff, an Austin-based postdoctoral fellow with the CoLab, will teach a semester-long graduate communication theory course in Porto this spring.

A research colloquium with Randolph Bias of the UT Austin School of Information.

With the support of the FCT, three technology managers from Portuguese universities are participating in professional internships at university technology offices in Texas.

UTEN Portugal opened its 2010 training program with two two-day workshops on capital sourcing for early-stage technology startups.

February 28, 2010, is the cut-off date to be considered in the next group of applicants to the ongoing call for Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Mathematics through the UT Austin|Portugal Program.

Sharon Strover, UT Austin professor of Radio-Television-Film and  Director of the CoLab Digital Media program, will work on U.S. broadband policy

“Romeo & Juliet – The Musical”, from Universidade Lusófona, was the big winner of 2009’s edition of the ZON Creativity in Multimedia Awards

On January 21st the External Review Committee of the UT Austin|Portugal Program will make a public presentation of its finding and recommendations.

The 2010 Summer School and Workshop on Imaging Sciences and Medical Applications is an initiative of the UT Austin|Portugal program, for Mathematics. It will take place at the DM-FCTUC (Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra) June 15-23, 2010.

New space for students opened at FCT/UNL

UTEN and the UT Austin Office of Technology Commercialization will hold two workshops on Licensing and Negotiation in December. Identical workshops are scheduled for Lisbon and Porto, December 14th and 15th at U.Lisboa and December 17th and 18th at U.Porto.

Drs. Sharon Strover and Luis Francisco-Revilla from The University of Texas gave two proposal writing workshops in Portugal.

The 2009 Orientation Session for students was held on October 28th in Monte da Caparica.

Second Annual Future Places Digital Media Festival