Yearly Archives: 1998

The University of Texas at Austin on Oct. 21 will host Centex College Fair 1998, an event that brings representatives from more then 135 colleges, universities and other educational agencies from around the country to meet with area high school students and their parents at the Frank Erwin Special Events Center.

Eighteen art works from McCallum High School students will be on display through Oct. 23 at The University of Texas at Austin as a result of an ongoing Adopt-A-School partnership between the College of Fine Arts and the local high school.The exhibition will be displayed on the second floor of the art building located at the corner of 23rd Street and Jacinto. The purpose of the Adopt-A-School program is to provide a forum for faculty at UT Austin to share their expertise with teachers and management staff at McCallum, in order to help the school to achieve its goal of academic excellence.

Dr. Larry Faulkner, president of The University of Texas at Austin, will preside at the dedication of the E. William Doty Fine Arts Building at 11 a.m. Saturday (Oct. 17). The ceremony will be in the lobby of the Bass Concert Hall, which is adjacent to the Doty building.

Amid the serene landscape at the southern boundary of the scenic Hill Country, about 15 miles west of Devine, Texas, in Medina County, lies a group of deep and shallow wells on an expanse of land that, along with the test data gathered at the site, is valued at nearly $1 million.

Dr. Arlan Richardson, president of the Gerontological Society of America and director of the Aging Research and Education Center at the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio, will speak at UT Austin Wednesday (Oct. 7) on genetic mechanisms of aging.

The LBJ School of Public Affairs Governor's Executive Development Program has joined forces with Strategic Partnerships Inc. to present a comprehensive conference on legislative communications.

Hundreds of state agency personnel involved with training development, delivery and procurement are expected to gather at the Fourth Annual State Agency Training Expo on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at The University of Texas at Austin's J. J. Pickle Research Campus.

Girls in today's society are confronted by a growing number of challenges, with issues such as gangs and violence, coming of age, careers, acclimation to U.S. culture, sports, and friendship among the topics facing them at an increasingly early age.

Dr. Judith Langlois, a University of Texas at Austin psychology professor who has attracted national attention with her research on questions of how attractiveness is perceived, has been named dean ad interim of the College of Liberal Arts.

President Larry R. Faulkner will present his inaugural "State of the University" address during the Academic Convocation on The University of Texas at Austin campus, 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesday (Oct. 6).