Monthly Archives: Oct. 2002

A simulated disaster drill will be held at The University of Texas at Austin on Thursday (Oct. 17) to test and strengthen the disaster preparedness procedures of the university and Austin area emergency response agencies.

Astronomers with The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory Planet Search project have discovered the first planet orbiting a star in a close-in binary star system.

Victoria Rodríguez, vice provost for institutional initiatives at The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected by Hispanic Business magazine for inclusion in its list of the “100 Most Influential Hispanics in 2002.” The list appears in the magazine’s October issue.

Architecture student Sarah Row took a break during one of her 14-hour work days on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and reflected on what she and her fellow students were doing there.

Gerald Torres, a professor at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, has been named president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), a non-profit organization of 164 law schools.

Austin’s dynamic technology community will serve as a highly appropriate backdrop when ancient fossils and 21st century technologies converge for an international gathering of anthropologists.

Fully disclosed open adoptions, in which adoptive families and birthmothers have an opportunity for direct contact with one another, work well for most birthmothers who have participated in them, says a University of Texas at Austin researcher in a new national study on changes in adoption practices from confidentiality toward openness.

A new building for the Department of Psychology and Human Ecology’s Division of Human Development and Family Sciences was dedicated Friday (Oct. 4) at The University of Texas at Austin.

Fulbright Scholar grants for 2002-03 have been awarded to four faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin selected to lecture and conduct research abroad.

- 30 September 2002