Yearly Archives: 1998

This year's "Take Our Children to Work Day" activities at UT Austin on April 24 will allow children of staff and faculty to tour experimental laboratories, see demonstrations of a flight simulator and observe the wonders of archeology, robotics, music and other interesting fields of study.

Prairie View A&M University's Symphonic Band and Concert Chorale, and former Texas State Rep. Wilhelmina Delco will be featured at the 12th annual Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights at UT Austin.

The National Society of Black Engineers has selected The University of Texas at Austin's student chapter as the 1998 National Distinguished Chapter of the Year. Judged by faculty advisors from throughout the nation, the award is based on academic excellence, technical achievement, financial vitality, membership, professional development, cultural awareness, leadership and communication.

The University of Texas at Austin has completed its review of the public disclosure of academic information regarding a freshman student-athlete. We have been in touch with the student, his family and their attorney.

A symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of Executive Order 9981, which integrated the United States armed forces, will be hosted by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs on The University of Texas at Austin campus on April 16.

The University of Texas and the department of intercollegiate athletics for men apologize to Mr. Luke Axtell, a freshman student athlete at the University. Academic information concerning Mr. Axtell was wrongfully released. This academic information should not have been released.

Dr. Charles F. Keller, director of the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory, will discuss "The Global Warming Debate: 'The Heat is On'" during a physics department colloquium at 4 p.m. Wednesday (April 1) in Robert Lee Moore Hall 4.102 at The University of Texas at Austin.

Four people will be honored April 4 for outstanding contributions to liberal arts at The University of Texas at Austin. Receiving the Pro Bene Meritis award are Rex G. Baker Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Wales Madden Jr. and UT Professor Am&eacuterico Paredes - all UT exes.

When the Cavani String Quartet returns to the University of Texas campus this month, Austin-area chamber music lovers are in for a treat. And so are several area schools, health care facilities and University students.

The International Symposium on the Spanish Language will bring distinguished scholars and business leaders from a dozen Latin American and Caribbean countries, Spain and the United States to The University of Texas at Austin campus in April to discuss the present and future state of the Spanish language throughout the world.The April 1-4 symposium at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Flawn Academic Center will feature three days of programs open to the public as well as some private academic meetings. The event is co-chaired by Professors Joseph Matluck and Carlos Sole' of the department of Spanish and Portuguese at UT Austin.