Monthly Archives: Jan. 2002

More and more residents along the U.S.-Mexican border are using herbal products instead of conventional medicines to treat health problems and are failing to inform a physician about the use — an omission that makes them at risk for potentially dangerous drug interactions, the findings of a new study show.

The Sembradores de Amistad Valentine's Day Ball 2002, supporting scholarship endowments for underprivileged college students at The University of Texas at Austin and three other central Texas educational institutions, will be held at 5:45 p.m. on Feb. 9 at the Omni South Park Hotel in Austin.

Two of the nation’s top legal scholars on securities markets will discuss the impact of securities laws and litigation on the integrity of financial markets during a conference Feb. 1-2 at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law.

The University of Texas at Austin has approved new guidelines for lighting the UT Tower.

Dr. Steven P. Nichols, director of the Clint W. Murchison Chair of Free Enterprise in the College of Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering, has been appointed associate vice president for research at The University of Texas at Austin.

The University of Texas at Austin’s alumni association, the Texas Exes, has chosen nine high school and two elementary school teachers from throughout Texas as winners of the 2002 Texas Excellence Awards for Outstanding Teachers.

Three grants totaling more than $5.5 million have been awarded to The University of Texas at Austin Department of Sociology and the Population Research Center to study the effects of recent curricular changes in the nation’s schools.

"Paris-Auschwitz-Paris: A French-Jewish Experience in the 20th Century," will be presented by Charles Baron, president of the Official Committee of the Deported Jews of France at 4 p.m., Feb. 28, at The University of Texas at Austin.

Preliminary tests involving the death of a University of Texas at Austin student who lived in an off-campus apartment indicate he had bacterial meningitis, health department officials said today (Jan. 22).

The Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded $94,000 for a project to increase the capacity of Texas high schools to offer high-quality, advanced courses in mathematics. The program involves building partnerships between higher education faculty and high school mathematics faculty.