Yearly Archives: 2001

For the second year in a row, the University of Texas Child Care Center is expanding its regular day-care program to include child care for families attending UT home football games this season. Child care for children ages 3 to 12 will be available beginning Sept. 1 for all home games. Remaining dates for University of Texas home games this year are Sept. 8 and 29, Oct. 20 and Nov. 10. The center, on the south side of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, will open an hour and a half before the game and remain open for an hour and a half after the game. Snacks and activities will be provided. Parents should pack a lunch or dinner. The cost of this service is $45 for the first child and $25 for each sibling.

Hispanic Heritage Month and Latinos’ contributions to the United States will be recognized in a one-hour special program, Latinos and a Changing America, that begins Sept. 15 on Latino USA, a production partnership of KUT Radio at The University of Texas at Austin.

New students to The University of Texas at Austin will receive a Texas-size welcome Aug. 28 during Gone to Texas 2001 activities on the South Terrace of the Main Building. The 5th annual event provides students with a glimpse into the university's many traditions and resources on the night before fall classes begin.

The University of Texas at Austin, Just for the Kids Inc. and the Education Commission of the States have formed a partnership to create the National Center for Educational Accountability, the first national research and policy center focused on using systematic assessment to improve schools.

Division of Student Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin receives grant to assist first generation, low-income students and students with disabilities

Yet, there is no reason to believe that natural selection shapes only physical traits, Gosling said.

National security and international affairs expert Admiral Bobby R. Inman will assume a permanent faculty position — the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy — at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin beginning in August. The previous holder of the LBJ Centennial Chair was the late Barbara Jordan.

Being a published poet is a high-risk occupation — more dangerous than being a firefighter or deep-sea diver, says a University of Texas at Austin psychologist who recently concluded a new study on language use in poetry.

Dallas area members of the Longhorn Alumni Band will join Dr. Larry R. Faulkner, president of The University of Texas at Austin, in Dallas Wednesday (July 25) in a special celebration welcoming incoming area freshmen preparing to start classes at the University this fall.

Corigliano has received several other major prizes and holds the unique distinction of being the first composer to have won both the Academy Award ("Best Original Score" for The Red Violin in 2000) and the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Symphony No. 2, which he received this year.