Monthly Archives: June 1999

David Hillis has had a love of life's diversity and a craving to learn more about it since as early as he can remember. He is the kind of fearless researcher who follows his heart and mind wherever they might take him, and has spent his career as a molecular biologist trying new approaches to old problems.

The University of Texas at Austin and the Austin Software Council (ASC) have taken a significant step toward strengthening the bonds between the University and the Central Texas software industry.

Students from throughout the Rio Grande Valley accepted as incoming freshmen to The University of Texas at Austin received a personal welcome recently during Send-Off '99 celebrations attended by UT Austin President Larry R. Faulkner.

President Larry R. Faulkner of The University of Texas at Austin traveled to Arlington recently for Send-Off '99, a celebration to personally welcome students from the Dallas-Fort Worth area who will be incoming freshmen next fall at UT Austin.

The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, a unit of The University of Texas at Austin, has announced the commitment of $770,851 in grants for mental health research and service projects in Texas for the second quarter of 1999.

Forget those television ads featuring svelte personal trainers hawking the latest suburban gym chain. Dr. Bob Spina, a UT Austin exercise physiologist, has a better nine-month offer, and it's free.

A promising young researcher at The University of Texas at Austin who received a $200,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation will use the award to investigate soils that seem to act like quicksand during earthquakes.

Forget those television ads featuring svelte personal trainers hawking the latest suburban gym chain. Dr. Bob Spina, a UT Austin exercise physiologist, has a better nine-month offer, and it's free.

An important milestone has been reached in an effort to initiate biological control of imported fire ants in Texas, according to Dr. Larry Gilbert, director of the Brackenridge Field Laboratory (BFL) at The University of Texas at Austin.

President Larry R. Faulkner of The University of Texas at Austin will visit with UT-bound students and their parents from the Dallas-Fort Worth area during a "Send Off '99" celebration at the Ball Park at Arlington on Thursday (June 17).