Monthly Archives: Sept. 2002

Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS), five of England’s most talented actors, will perform William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” Oct. 2 through Oct. 5 in Austin and Round Top. Presented by the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Notre Dame, the actors will spend a week on the Austin campus conducting classes and workshops in addition to the public performances.

Enrollment at The University of Texas at Austin reached an all-time high of 52,273 this fall because of increases in the number of entering freshmen and graduate students, and increases in the retention of undergraduate students.

The University of Texas at Austin again ranked among the nation’s top 50 national universities in this year’s U.S. News & World Report magazine survey of undergraduate programs at colleges and universities.

Larry R. Faulkner, president of The University of Texas at Austin, will give his annual State of the University Address at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 18, in the Jessen Auditorium of Homer P. Rainey Hall near Littlefield Fountain.

A prototype hybrid bus that uses a high-speed, high-power flywheel levitated on magnetic bearings has produced a significantly smoother ride and fuel savings of about 30 percent on a typical urban route, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.

Teresa A. Sullivan, vice president and dean of graduate studies at The University of Texas at Austin, will be the new executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at The University of Texas System, Chancellor Mark G. Yudof announced Wednesday (Sept. 11).

Jack Kilby, the Nobel Prize-winning engineer whose demonstration of the first microchip in 1958 revolutionized the electronics industry, spoke on Sept. 9 about the events surrounding his historic breakthrough.

The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin ranked seventh in this year’s Wall Street Journal list of the nation’s top 50 business schools published on Monday, Sept. 9.

Whatever savings may be involved in buying pharmaceuticals across United States borders are not worth the safety risks, says a University of Texas at Austin professor who has testified before Congress twice in the past year on the issue of bringing medicines across borders.

For many years, distinguished alumnus Mike A. Myers (Business Administration, 1959; LLB, 1963) has dreamed of building The University of Texas Golf Club, a course in the Hill Country that would serve the university, Central Texas and Austin residents, alumni, and the Longhorns’ men’s and women’s varsity golf teams. This month, that dream becomes a reality.