Yearly Archives: 1997

The deadline for applying for Dobie-Paisano writing fellowships, which offer recipients six months in residence at the late J. Frank Dobie's ranch near Austin, is Jan. 23, 1998. The fellowships are sponsored by the Texas Institute of Letters and The University of Texas at Austin.

Geology students at The University of Texas at Austin will have a whole new view of what's under the Gulf of Mexico. A gift from Texaco of a data set representing an investment of more than $10 million in research includes extensive state-of-the-art 3D seismic images.

A new report describing poverty, racial prejudice and inferior education, but also some improved conditions affecting many African American children living in Texas, was released Wednesday (Oct. 1) as a part of The Texas Kids Count Project. The research was conducted at The University of Texas at Austin in partnership with the Center for Public Policy Priorities of Austin.

Recent developments at Brackenridge Field Laboratory (BFL) at UT Austin represent small but important benchmarks toward the ultimate goal of long-term biological control of imported fire ants, according to Dr. Lawrence Gilbert, director of the laboratory and of the research project and director of the zoology department at UT Austin.

A conference honoring Charles Hartshorne, Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at UT Austin, will be held on campus Oct. 10-11 on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

Manuscript materials by living and legendary authors from The University of Texas at Austin will be featured in an exhibition that opens Oct. 1 at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

In the race to build faster, more powerful, fossil-fuel-driven passenger train locomotives, engineers at The University of Texas at Austin lurched ahead last week. Tests of one of the world's lightest-weight, highest-energy flywheel rotors surpassed these designers' performance goals, bringing low-cost, high-speed passenger rail service closer to reality.

After nearly 10 years of effort, the students at The University of Texas at Austin are one step closer to having a sculpture of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. erected on the East Mall of the campus. The Martin Luther King Jr. Sculpture Committee is unveiling the maquette's (scale models) produced by the five artists who are finalists vying for the commission of this historic project at the University.

Officials from The University of Texas at Austin and Frito-Lay, Inc. will announce a recruiting and research partnership on Thursday (Sept. 25) designed to foster student placement in internships and full-time employment, and to afford opportunities for students to participate in research projects.

Dr. Peter T. Flawn, president ad interim  of The University of Texas at Austin, provided the following statement in response to comments reportedly made by a law professor, Lino Graglia, who spoke at a press conference Wednesday (Sept. 10).