Monthly Archives: Dec. 1998

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 Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art's 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.

The University of Texas at Austin acquires the Alamo memoir. Names of donors to be revealed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

WHAT: 1998 UT Austin fall Commencement schedule.

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.