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  • Dec. 18Blanton Museum of Art selects Herzog & de Meuron to design landmark new building
    Larry Faulkner, President of The University of Texas at Austin (UT), announced today that Herzog & de Meuron Architekten AG, Basel Switzerland, as Design Architect, in collaboration with Booziotis & Company Architects, Dallas, Texas, as Project Architect, has been awarded the commission to design the <A HREF="http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/hag/">Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art's</a> new building on the UT campus in Austin. One of the foremost university art museums in the nation, the Blanton, with the largest and most comprehensive collection of art in central Texas, is also the leading art museum serving the city of Austin. Herzog & de Meuron is working on several major museum projects in Europe, including the Tate Gallery of Modern Art currently under construction in London. The Blanton will be the firm's first museum project in the United States.
  • Dec. 15Press Conference Announcement
    The University of Texas at Austin acquires the Alamo memoir. Names of donors to be revealed.
  • Dec. 11UT Tower to be lighted in tribute to Longhorn football team, Ricky Williams
    The University of Texas at Austin will deliver an orange accolade to the Cotton Bowl-bound Longhorn football team, coach Mack Brown and Heisman Trophy candidate Ricky Williams by lighting The University of Texas Tower on Saturday (Dec. 12) and Wednesday (Dec. 16). The number 34, which is Williams' uniform number, will be bathed in orange light on all four sides of the Tower in recognition of his accomplishments.
  • Dec. 10Instant gratification: Test scores delivered to UT Austin by Internet
    Dr. Teresa Sullivan, vice president and dean of graduate studies at The University of Texas at Austin, announced Thursday a significant breakthrough in the use and reporting of standardized test scores.
  • Dec. 7UT Austin student wins coveted Marshall Scholarship
    A University of Texas at Austin undergraduate, who has followed an unusual academic path with a double major in biochemistry and French, is one of 40 American students nationwide who has won a prestigious British Marshall Scholarship.
  • Dec. 7Scientist at Center for Space Research at UT Austin says satellite finds global sea level change during El Niño
    The 1997-98 El Niño event may have been a major contributor in the average global sea level rising about eight-tenths of an inch before it returned to normal levels, according to scientists studying TOPEX/Poseidon satellite measurements of sea surface height.
  • Dec. 2UT Austin announces 1998 fall Commencement schedule
    WHAT: 1998 UT Austin fall Commencement schedule.
  • Dec. 2LBJ School hosts pre-session conference for members of Texas Legislature
    The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Legislature are hosting the 1998 Pre-Session Legislative Conference today through Friday (Dec. 2-4) for the upcoming Texas legislative session.
  • Dec. 1Department of Energy awards $3 million to UT engineers for research
    The Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded more than $3 million by the National Petroleum Technology Office of the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct research on advanced oil recovery technologies.
  • Nov. 25Max Sherman named Texan of the Year for 1998
    Professor Max Sherman of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin has been chosen as the Texan of the Year for 1998, according to the Advisory Committee of the Texas Legislative Conference.
  • Nov. 24UT Austin will be operating normally on Wednesday, November 25.
    The <I>Austin American-Statesman </I>erroneously reported in today's (Nov. 24) newspaper that The University of Texas at Austin will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov. 25. Indeed, all units of The University will be operating normally on Wednesday before we shift to a holiday work schedule on Thursday and Friday (November 26 and 27) in observance of Thanksgiving.For further information, contact Dr. Peggy Kruger, associate vice president for administration and director, Office of Public Affairs, (512) 471-3151.
  • Nov. 23Tiny phorid flies attack imported fire ants in biological control experiments at UT Austin
    Researchers at UT Austin this year have been collecting heads of dead imported fire ants as part of a biological experiment to help bring the pesky insects under control.



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