Dec. 20 Fraternity cited for hazing in death of student receives cancellation of registered student organization status until 2011
AUSTIN, Texas—Lambda Phi Epsilon’s status as a registered student organization at The University of Texas at Austin has been canceled until Dec. 19, 2011 because of hazing, Teresa Graham Brett, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students, announced today (Dec. 20). “The cancellation of a group’s registration is the most severe penalty [...]Dec. 19 National Center on Instruction in Special Education created with $3 million federal grant
A Center on Instruction in Special Education will be created by The University of Texas at Austin's Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts with a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.Dec. 15 Dean of Continuing Education will retire and become senior research fellow at Center for American History
Thomas M. Hatfield, dean of the Division of Continuing Education at The University of Texas at Austin, will retire at the end of August 2006 to assume a new role as senior research fellow and head of Studies in American Military History at the Center for American History, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, executive vice president and provost of the university, has announced.Dec. 13 University Co-operative Society’s $300,000 grant funds College of Fine Arts student activity center
The University Co-operative Society has awarded $300,000, the largest single gift it has made to The University of Texas at Austin, to the university's College of Fine Arts for the design and construction of a new student center in the E. William Doty Fine Arts building.Dec. 12 Dean ad interim appointed at School of Law at The University of Texas at Austin
Steven J. Goode, associate dean for academic affairs at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, has been appointed dean ad interim for the School of Law, effective Feb. 1, 2006, while the university conducts a nationwide search to replace Dean William C. Powers Jr., who will become the university's president.Dec. 6 University of Texas at Austin graduate awarded Marshall Scholarship
The Marshall Scholarship program has awarded University of Texas at Austin alumna Heidi Boutros a two-year scholarship to study international relations at the University of Oxford. Boutros, who graduated in 2004 with degrees in Plan II Honors and Government, is one of only 43 scholars from across the nation who received the honor.Dec. 5 University reopens search for chief of police
The Office of the Vice President for Employee and Campus Services has reopened its search for a chief of police.Dec. 5 School of Nursing faculty member inducted into American Academy of Nursing
Dr. Eun-Ok Im, associate professor of nursing at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected a 2005 Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, an organization that strives to promote health policy and practice.Dec. 1 Fall 2005 commencement ceremonies to honor graduates at The University of Texas at Austin
A former Texas governor, a food market executive, a library association president and several prominent professors will be among the speakers featured during fall commencement 2005 ceremonies Dec. 9-11 honoring graduating students at The University of Texas at Austin.Nov. 29 Toy buying can expose children to racial, gender stereotypes, research shows
Holiday shopping in toy stores can expose young children to harmful racial and gender stereotypes, says a University of Texas at Austin sociologist who has completed a study of the retail toy industry.Nov. 29 New antibody shows promise as cure for anthrax
A new anthrax antibody engineered by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin protects and defends against inhalation anthrax without the use of antibiotics and other more expensive antibodies.Nov. 23 Student scientists create living bacterial photographs
Using Petri dishes full of genetically engineered E. coli instead of photo paper, students at The University of Texas at Austin and UCSF successfully created the first-ever bacterial photographs.
