President and Mrs. Larry R. Faulkner

invite you to

commemorating
the one-hundred and seventeenth birthday of
The University of Texas at Austin
and inaugurating
a special year-long tribute to UT’s faculty

Members of The University community and guests will pause at the Tower to join in  the festivities—brief remarks, celebratory music, the pageantry of the large Texas flag  being unfurled off the Main Building, birthday cake, and more.  Coordinated by the Texas Exes Student Chapter. For more information about this event, please see the press release.

STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY ADDRESS
President Faulkner will present his third annual State of the University Address, an assessment of the University at its 117^th anniversary and a report on ongoing and new initiatives of his administration.  As a part of his remarks, Dr. Faulkner will recognize several faculty award recipients.   For more information about this event, please see the press release.

SYMPOSIUM:  A NEW GENERATION OF SCHOLARSHIP
Research, scholarship, and creativity are the vehicles that develop faculty talent and renew their teaching.  A panel of recently-tenured faculty will discuss their own work, how they see their fields developing and changing, and the common emergent themes among the next generation of faculty researchers and artists.

Moderator
Dr. Teresa A. Sullivan
Vice President and Dean of Graduate Studies

Panelists
Professor Michael Ray Charles
Associate Professor of Art

Dr. Darlene Grant
Associate Professor of Social Work

Dr. David Sosa
Associate Professor of Philosophy

Ms. Sidra Silton
Doctoral Candidate, Aerospace Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant, MSE
Institute for Advanced Technology

Ms. Katy Zarolia
Senior, Management Information Systems
College of Business Administration
Chair, Cabinet of College Councils