Monthly Archives: Aug. 2005

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to develop a computer simulation of events that occur in billionths of a second in processes that last for minutes.

A team of computer scientists from The University of Texas at Austin has won an international contest where computer-simulated agents were pitted against each other in a virtual manufacturing game.

The University of Texas Elementary School in east Austin will begin its third year of operation Thursday, Aug. 11, with the addition of a third grade and three new classrooms.

The Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation has named Joe Youngblood as its new executive director, effective Sept. 1. Youngblood has been assistant dean for development and external affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin since 1999, and director of the LBJ Foundation's Institute for the 21st Century since 2003.

The Dalai Lama, the exiled leader of the Tibetan people and winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, will visit The University of Texas at Austin on Sept. 20, and give a public talk at 4 p.m. in the Frank Erwin Center, 1701 Red River St.

Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a new technique for cooling atoms and molecules that will allow them to study quantum physics more effectively with a greater variety of particles.

Dr. Craig Watkins, associate professor of radio-TV-film, sociology and African American studies at The University of Texas at Austin, traces the charged history of hip hop in his latest book, “Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement,” due out on Aug. 29.

Dr. Tracie Harrison, assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, has received a $120,000 post-doctoral fellowship for research on aging with disabilities.