Yearly Archives: 2005

Numerous national rankings, including the 2006 survey of America's Best Colleges by U.S. News & World Report magazine, the 2006 Fiske Guide to Colleges and the Princeton Review, have recognized UT Austin as one of the nation's best values in terms of its cost, the quality of its academic programs and reputation, and its commitment to community and national service.

About 5,000 undergraduates at The University of Texas at Austin who each year are required by state mandate to take an introductory course on U.S. and Texas politics can save roughly $60 each, or a total of $300,000, by using Texas Politics, a new online textbook developed through the College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS).

The University of Texas at Austin has received the papers of career foreign services officer George Lister. Lister worked behind the scenes in the early 1970s to shake conventional wisdom that human rights concerns did not bear consideration in foreign policy decisions. His ideas took root, helping to spawn an influential State Department bureau dedicated to human rights.

Idyll Life, the winning team in the 2005 Global MOOT CORP Competition, will open the NASDAQ Stock Market on Friday, Aug. 19. The team, which hails from Thammasat University in Thailand, will be joined by Gary Cadenhead, director of the MOOT CORP Program at The University of Texas at Austin, and his successor, Rob Adams.

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.