Monthly Archives: April 2000

University of Texas at Austin professors William H. Goetzmann, a Pulitzer ¬Prize winning author, and David M. Hillis, a molecular biologist and recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Scholarship grants for 49 students in five Dallas/Fort Worth area high schools were delivered Tuesday morning (April 25) by representatives from The University of Texas at Austin, including President Larry R. Faulkner who later attended the formal opening of UT Austin's new Dallas Admissions Center.

Three students at the University of Texas School of Law have been selected by the United Nation's criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda to serve as interns on their prosecutorial staffs.

Breast cancer remains a serious public health challenge in the United States with more than 175,000 new cases and 43,000 associated deaths estimated for 1999. It is the most common type of cancer among American women, accounting for one of every three cancers diagnosed in the United States. And even though great strides have been made in scientific knowledge about the disease, the exact cause of breast cancer still eludes researchers.

The MIS 311F class at The University of Texas Business School will hold its biannual "City of Cleveland" business fair and mock trade show from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., May 1, at the Texas Union Ballroom.

President Larry R. Faulkner of The University of Texas at Austin and a team of University officials will deliver about $500,000 in scholarship grants to 49 top academic scholars in five Dallas-Fort Worth area high schools Tuesday morning (April 25).

The General Libraries Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT) has been chosen to receive the Association of College and Research Libraries annual "Innovation in Instruction" Award. The award, presented by ACRL's Instruction Section, honors librarians who have developed and implemented innovative approaches to instruction.

The Texas Memorial Museum will celebrate Earth Day on Saturday April 22 with a new exhibit and a day of family fun.

The origin of word forms in infants is determined by simple mechanics not by speech specific genes, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. The researchers also found a strong relationship between how infants acquire speech motor control and the origins of speech production skills in early man.

President Larry R. Faulkner of The University of Texas at Austin and members of his staff on April 12 delivered more than $200,000 in scholarship grants to 57 seniors in six Houston area high schools and urged the high academic achievers to consider attending UT Austin next fall.