Yearly Archives: 2000

Diez y Seis de Septiembre (September 16) will be celebrated at The University of Texas at Austin this week with free concerts on campus and guest speakers describing the reason for the celebration -- a priest's heroic call in 1810 for Mexico's independence.

On Wednesday, Sept. 13, The University of Texas at Austin will kick-off the University Challenge, a month long effort to increase the accessibility of the UT Web site to all users, especially people with disabilities.

A phrase on journalism Professor Wayne Danielson's Web site reads: "Don't be discouraged if your ideas are not accepted right away; hang anything in the lake long enough and a fish will come along and bite."

The University of Texas at Austin on Monday (Sept. 11) announced that it has received a $300,000 donation from Nortel Networks.*

They look no more significant than bits of popcorn tossed into a finger bowl. But the small balls of cotton floating in a petri dish in the laboratory of Dr. R. Malcolm Brown Jr. could hold the key to increased profits for a major Texas industry.

The Center for Women's Studies at The University of Texas at Austin presents Lynn C. Miller in a special performance of her one-woman show "Gertrude Stein as Gertrude Stein" Friday Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Utopia Theatre, Social Work Building, 1925 San Jacinto.

An estimated 41 buildings at The University of Texas at Austin main campus were found vandalized with glue and other foreign objects in the door locks early Thursday morning.

Ronald Kirk, the first African American mayor of Dallas, will discuss "The Rewards of Public Service" at a lecture Thursday (Sept. 7) at The University of Texas at Austin. The talk will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the Bates Recital Hall, located in the Music Building and Recital Hall on East Campus Drive.

A report released today (Sept. 6) by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin finds that Austin residents view race relations as a serious and continuing problem. The report explores public perceptions of race relations and assesses services provided by the city of Austin.

The University of Texas at Austin has named a campus street for alumnus Robert H. Dedman Sr., honoring him for several decades of philanthropy and service.