Yearly Archives: 2001

Dr. Ronald B. Gillam, associate professor of communication sciences and disorders at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $4.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the outcomes of computerized and individual language therapies with school-age children throughout the United States.

Teresa Graham Brett, associate dean of students at the University of Michigan since 1998, has been appointed associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students at The University of Texas at Austin.

A University of Texas at Austin student has been awarded one of this year's prestigious Marshall Scholarships to study in Britain.

Executives of Silicon Laboratories of Austin have contributed $2.35 million in stock to The University of Texas at Austin to create an endowed chair in mixed signal design, one of the most difficult and highly sought-after engineering disciplines in the semiconductor industry.

Photographer George O. Jackson, a native of Laredo and resident of Houston, has given a visual record of important festivals of more than 60 indigenous Mexican cultures to the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin.

The 2002 edition of the StarDate Sky Almanac is available for $4 from McDonald Observatory. The guide contains a year’s worth of skywatching information — how to find planets, bright stars and constellations, and when to watch for meteor showers. All proceeds benefit the public education programs of McDonald Observatory. The Almanac contains month-by-month details on what to look for in the night sky. It also outlines what’s coming up in space exploration in 2002, including new telescopes for Earth orbit, launches to the Moon and comets, and the continuing saga of Mars.

Midland oilman and investor Joe Parsley has given $30,000 to McDonald Observatory to enable West Texas teachers to attend professional development workshops at the observatory, near Fort Davis.

The Meadows Foundation of Dallas has given McDonald Observatory $105,000 to support its K-12 educational programs over the next three years.

Thanks to a $10 million gift from the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation, 100 undergraduate scholarships and 15 graduate fellowships will be available in 2003 to students of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

There is a great deal of truth to the words "use it or lose it," says a University of Texas at Austin researcher who begins a $2.4-million study next month on improving everyday memory in at-risk elderly.