Yearly Archives: 2003

The Tower at The University of Texas at Austin will shine bright orange for about an hour on Saturday, Nov. 29 and throughout the night on Sunday, Nov. 30 for lighting tests and for filming of a scene for the feature movie'Cheer Up' that is being produced on the university's South Mall area.

A proposal to include race and ethnicity as additional factors in consideration of undergraduate, graduate and law school applications for admission to The University of Texas at Austin has been submitted to the University of Texas System for its review.

In June 2002, the world's First Photograph, Joseph Nicephore Niepce's 'View from the Window at Le Gras,' traveled from The University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Center to the Los Angeles-based Getty Conservation Institute to undergo its first-ever extensive scientific tests.

A $1.5 million federal grant to evaluate the effectiveness of an asthma health education program for parents and their school-age children has been awarded to a University of Texas at Austin researcher in the School of Nursing.

University of Texas at Austin astronomers have invented an inexpensive method to determine if other solar systems like our own exist.

Professor Ronald Mann of The University of Texas at Austin School of Law will offer a broad-ranging critique of credit card policy when he delivers the Akard Lecture at the law school at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 19 in the Connally Justice Center's Eidman Courtroom.

Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin College of Engineering's Center for Energy and Environmental Resources have received $6.7 million to study air quality in and around the Corpus Christi, Texas, area.

The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System on Tuesday (Nov. 18) approved tuition increases for this spring after receiving assurances from university officials that adequate financial aid would be available to help students pay for the new costs.

On Nov. 22, the birthday of former Vice President John Nance Garner, The University of Texas at Austin's Center for American History will rededicate the John Nance Garner Museum in Uvalde, Texas and celebrate the reopening of the museum and its new exhibit installation.

The Tower at The University of Texas at Austin will be illuminated for about an hour with orange lights after dusk Thursday, Nov. 13 to evaluate lighting levels for the filming of a scene on campus for the feature movie 'Cheer Up' that is being produced in Austin.