Yearly Archives: 1998

As the world watches with renewed interest the activities of Sen. John Glenn and the Space Shuttle Discovery, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy are awaiting today's scheduled return of Discovery, focusing on an experiment under way aboard the mission that may help UT researchers save lives back on Earth by developing more effective drugs to fight cancer.

Dr. Amÿrico Paredes, professor emeritus at The University of Texas at Austin, will be one of two Texas authors to receive lifetime achievement awards Nov. 14 at the Capitol during the opening session for the Texas Book Festival.

Dee Campanella, a graduate of Plano high school and now a senior public relations major at The University of Texas at Austin, has received one of two Outstanding Student Awards from the UT Parents' Association. This annual award recognizes outstanding student leaders who are active both on campus and in the community.

Ernesto Cortÿs, Jr., Southwest regional director of the Industrial Areas Foundation, will speak at The University of Texas at Austin campus on Tuesday (Nov. 3) on the topic, "Community Organizing in the 21st Century."

President Larry R. Faulkner announced today (Oct. 28) that he will recommend to The University of Texas System Board of Regents that the observation deck of the Tower at UT Austin be reopened next year for public tours. The board of regents will hold its next regular meeting in Houston on Nov. 11-12.

Officials at The University of Texas announced major progress in the effort to exempt student employees' paychecks from Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) deductions. Texas is one of only three states that do not currently provide this exemption for students. Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX) included the provision in the recent budget agreement (H.R. 4328) approved by the Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton.

Work at the Center for Research in Water Resources at The University of Texas at Austin may help speed evacuation efforts and better determine flood risk areas in future flash floods.

The fall of Communism brought tragedy and turmoil to many citizens of Eastern Europe's newly emerging countries. But to the Gypsies, a people without a country, the impact has been profoundly more disturbing.

While artists may complain that critics' taste exists only in their mouths, UT Austin engineers and scientists have now successfully placed it on a silicon chip.

The 20th century news clipping archive of The New York Times has been donated to The University of Texas at Austin Center for American History by the New York Times Corp., UT Austin officials announced Monday (Oct. 26.).