Dec. 19 Delta Gamma Chapter at The University of Texas at Austin creates endowment for lecture series in values and ethics
The Delta Gamma Foundation and the sorority's Beta Eta Chapter at The University of Texas at Austin have endowed a $100,000 lectureship in values and ethics.Dec. 19 Houston Endowment gives $2 million for Digital Knowledge Gateway
Houston Endowment, a private philanthropic foundation that supports a variety of educational causes, has awarded The University of Texas at Austin a three-year, $2 million grant to launch its new Digital Knowledge Gateway.Dec. 16 University of Texas at Austin student awarded Marshall Scholarship
A student from The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded one of this year's prestigious Marshall Scholarships to study in Great Britain.Dec. 16 Protein's key role in pain relief identified by University of Texas at Austin neurobiologist
"This protein appears to be the master switch for controlling pain," said Dr. R. Adron Harris, director of the university's Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research and a professor at the College of Natural Sciences and College of Pharmacy, who led the research.Dec. 10 University of Texas at Austin joins with New Mexico State University to establish center focusing on health disparities in low-income areas
Dr. Lynn Rew of The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing has received a five-year, $1.5 million grant to establish an exploratory research center focusing on health inequalities in rural, low-income, Mexican American and American Indian populations.Dec. 9 Elementary school art exhibit sponsoredby university's Creative Research Laboratory
The Creative Research Laboratory (CRL), a division of the Department of Art and Art History, will present an exhibition of 200 art objects made by children from Zavala, Sanchez and Summitt elementary schools, beginning Dec. 12.Dec. 5 Physicist will receive Max Planck research prize
Dr. Mark G. Raizen, a professor of physics at The University of Texas at Austin, will receive a 2002 Max Planck Research Award for his outstanding achievements at the boundary of atomic physics and condensed matter physics.Dec. 5 Dr. Michael Krische receives 2002 Lilly Award as emerging leader in organic chemistry
Dr. Michael Krische, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named one of three recipients of the 2002 Lilly Grantee Award in Organic Chemistry.Dec. 4 Physicists invent a method to probe electronic properties of nanostructures
Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a simple process for making tiny metallic electrodes that can test whether individual nanostructures have the right properties for use in future nanoelectronic applications.Dec. 4 Department of Art and Art History receives endowment gifts totaling $550,000
A $500,000 gift from longtime art enthusiasts Allen P. and Susan M. Herskowitz has enabled the Department of Art and Art History to create two permanent endowment funds to benefit the painting program in the department's studio art division.Dec. 4 Songs of the Season and Orange Santa highlight holiday event at noon, Friday, Dec. 6 on West Mall
Students, faculty and staff from The University of Texas at Austin will gather on the West Mall steps of the Main Building at noon, Friday (Dec. 6) to join Orange Santa in Songs of the Season, a holiday sing-along that has become a university tradition.Dec. 3 University of Texas at Austin astronomers make precise measure of extrasolar world's mass
Fritz Benedict and Barbara McArthur, astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory, have made the first "positional" calculation of an extrasolar planet's mass. The work clearly determines the companion is a planet (not a low-mass star), and is an incremental step in the process of discovering how planets form around other stars.
