Yearly Archives: 1999

Enrollment at The University of Texas at Austin is 49,034 this fall -- a total that indicates the University may retain its ranking as the largest single-campus institution in the country.

The sculptors were selected after a national "Call for Artists" search by the committee, which was facilitated by the Texas Commission on the Arts. The Varillas will be paid $275,000. Funds remaining from the collection of the student fee will go toward a scholarship fund bearing King's name.

A $40,000 gift from the Microsoft Corporation to the Distance Education Center in Continuing and Extended Education at The University of Texas at Austin will help bring new educational technologies to bear on problems facing Texas migrant students.

Tom Anderson is the official University carilloneur, soloing most Mondays and Wednesdays, performing with Humphrey on Fridays.

Professor Lance Tatum's architecture students at The University of Texas at Austin have been working on some innovative building designs that they hope will someday be used in connection with the planned expansion of the residence hall facilities on campus.

The University of Texas at Austin will celebrate its 116th birthday on Sept. 15 with music, a symposium, a state of the University address by President Larry R. Faulkner and the president's historic reopening of the Tower observation deck.

Walter Cronkite, Liz Carpenter, Willie Morris, Liz Smith, Ronnie Dugger, Bill Moyers and cartoonist Berke Breathed æ what college newspaper wouldn't love to have just half of these celebrated journalists as alumni?

Listeners of Latino USA will be able to hear four special programs during September and October in conjunction with Hispanic Heritage Month that delve into the cultural contributions of Latinos in the United States.

Representatives of 34 nations are expected to attend the 3rd International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Monday (Aug. 30) through Thursday (Sept. 2) at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

Paul Cret, a French architect educated at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, designed The University of Texas at Austin Tower as the centerpiece of the University's campus. Silhouetted against the Texas sky, it was to be, he said, "the image carried in our memory when we think of the place."