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February 22
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2012 Alumni Reunion Weekend and Distinguished Public Service Award Celebration
To commemorate the 76th anniversary of Barbara Jordan’s birth, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin will host the 16th Annual Barbara Jordan National Forum, a week of student-led activities taking place Feb. 21 through Feb. 24. The week will be kicked off on Feb. 21 with a luncheon and keynote address by LBJ School Alumna Stacey Abrams (1998), Georgia State Representative.
Two LBJ School alumnae took part in the climate change negotiations in Durban, South Africa in November and December of 2011. The Durban Climate Change Conference was held by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Faculty Spotlight
Varun Rai, Assistant Professor, Authors Two Peer-Reviewed Chapters in Newly Release "Oil and Governance"
Varun Rai, assistant professor and faculty associate of UT's Energy Institute, is author of two peer-reviewed chapters in the recently released "Oil and Governance: State-Owned Enterprise and the World Energy Supply" (Cambridge University Press, 2012). In chapter 11 (co-authored with David Victor), Rai discusses the strategy and performance of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. In chapter 17, Rai explains the evolution of India's ONGC, the country's largest oil producer.