Yearly Archives: 2003

Campus Fusion, a student initiative celebrating diversity at The University of Texas at Austin and bringing together students from all walks of life, will feature a series of volunteer, educational, informative and celebratory activities on campus Sept. 26 through Oct. 4.

The University of Texas at Austin has created a new Web-based resource called EUREKA! to inspire undergraduate students to become involved in research and innovation and to enhance communication among faculty members across colleges and schools.

The Tuition Policy Advisory Committee, established at The University of Texas at Austin by President Larry R. Faulkner, will conduct a public hearing on undergraduate and graduate tuition from 4 to 6 p.m., Sept. 24, at the University Teaching Center (UTC), 2.112A.

Engineers and computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and Virginia Tech have been awarded two three-year collaborative research grants from the National Science Foundation totaling about $1.85 million. The grants will allow the two universities to create a computer program to rapidly test and deploy future wireless networks.

A team of University of Texas at Austin scientists led by Dr. Tandy Warnow has received $800,000 to participate in a federally funded effort to provide the intellectual and computational know-how needed for reconstructing the evolutionary history of all organisms.

Dr. Larry R. Faulkner, president of The University of Texas at Austin, will give his 'Address on the State of the University' at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 17, in the Jessen Auditorium of Homer P. Rainey Hall near Littlefield Fountain. The program is free and open to the public.

Enrollment at The University of Texas at Austin dropped 1.6 percent, from 52,261 to 51,438 this fall, but the university remains the nation's largest single-campus institution.

A University of Texas at Austin Children's Wellness Center program supporting early identification of children who need special education services has received a 2003 Texas Education Agency Showcase of Promising Practices Recognition.

A researcher in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $3.2 million research grant to track the alcohol use and associated behavioral risks of students transitioning from high school through their college years.

A team of computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has received a five-year, $1.9 million federal grant to establish the computer infrastructure for performing simulation studies on everything from the behavior of transistors to the classification of different life forms.