Yearly Archives: 2001

The University of Texas at Austin School of Law and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) today (July 17) will announce their partnership in establishing a pre-law program in San Antonio to better prepare prospective law students from UTSA to succeed in the legal profession.

Dr. John Cook Wright, senior lecturer and senior research scientist in the department of human ecology at The University of Texas at Austin, was killed in a two-car accident Monday (July 9) near Brainerd, Minn.

University of Texas at Austin President Larry R. Faulkner will welcome more than 700 of the state's brightest high school students to campus July 26 for the 20th annual Honors Colloquium — an intensive program designed to be a college search tool for outstanding students.

Closing the significant gap that exists between teacher training and emerging technology is the aim of a new collaborative program between The University of Texas at Austin and the Austin Independent School District.

John A. Jackson, a retired Dallas oilman and noted philanthropist, has given $25 million to create a School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. It is the third-largest single gift to the University.

The University of Texas at Austin has scholarships available for all qualifying students who plan to become teachers in six subject areas facing severe shortages in Texas schools.

As many as 40 percent of U.S. residents who enter Mexico this year will return home with a souvenir of their visit — a prescription drug that has not met U.S. Food and Drug Administration safety standards. While the majority may experience no ill effects, many others risk adverse reactions and some actually may die, according to a researcher at The University of Texas College of Pharmacy.

-->Three physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have reported the first observation of a phenomenon called chaos-assisted tunneling (CAT). This effect was predicted by physicists doing basic research in the area of quantum mechanics more than a decade ago and has been the subject of many theoretical studies since that time.

The Eyes of Texas, a song they can expect to hear regularly after they move to Austin, welcomed incoming freshmen from the Rio Grande Valley last week who will be attending The University of Texas at Austin during the fall semester.

Seeking new clues to the cause of some of the Earth's most powerful earthquakes, an international group of scientists aboard the Ocean Drilling Program vessel JOIDES Resolution is using special technology to measure and monitor physical properties at a convergent plate margin offshore Japan.