Yearly Archives: 2003

The College of Pharmacy at The University of Texas at Austin has received $2 million from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to establish a Center of Excellence for enhancing academic support and enrichment programs for its Hispanic students.

Diversity in work groups can undermine performance unless specific emphasis is placed on individual personality differences, new research shows.

Dr. Krishnendu Roy, a University of Texas at Austin biomedical engineering assistant professor, has received $224,795 from the Whitaker Foundation to begin studying the feasibility of growing organs from a single adult stem cell.

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have received more than $1 million from the Department of Energy to establish a center for studying and manipulating the interactions of a high-intensity laser with matter.

Effective ways to include race as a factor in selecting applicants for admission are being evaluated by administrators at The University of Texas at Austin, which plans to implement a revised admissions process by fall 2004.

The budget for The University of Texas at Austin this academic year is facing numerous challenges that have compelled administrators and staff to seek creative ways to continue providing essential needs of the university and its community.

Dr. Doug Burger and Dr. Stephen Keckler at The University of Texas at Austin have announced the design of an adaptive, high-performance microprocessor that could revolutionize computing. In collaboration with IBM, they are constructing a prototype system based on this architecture.

The grand opening of the new University of Texas Elementary School in East Austin on Monday (Aug. 18) drew an overflow crowd of parents and their young children anxious to meet the teachers and staff of a new elementary school that will have access to some of the most innovative teaching resources at The University of Texas at Austin.

The traditional Gone To Texas festivities welcoming new students to The University of Texas at Austin will begin at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 26 on the Main Mall of the campus.

Antony Cherian, a doctoral student in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the first of three Scholar-in-Residence Fellowships for the 'Project in Interpreting the Texas Past,' the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program (IE), Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TP&W), the Houston Endowment and the Summerlee Foundation have announced.