Yearly Archives: 2005

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.

The University of Texas at Austin has begun a new online service that makes it more convenient for prospective employers, landlords, scholarship providers and even prospective spouses and in-laws to verify attendance and graduation information about current and former students whose academic records are computerized.

An advisory group of regional and national technology experts has been established to further enhance the progression of UTOPIA, the University of Texas at Austin's digital knowledge gateway.

Four faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to receive Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellowships for the 2005 fall semester.

Representatives from The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing have been invited by President George W. Bush to attend a July 21 reception at the White House honoring tsunami relief volunteers.

The University of Texas Film Institute and Burnt Orange Productions will begin principal photography on 'The Cassidy Kids' in and around Austin on July 21.

The Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the state of Texas to help prepare the state's bid for FutureGen, a $1 billion federal program to develop the power plant of the future.

The University of Texas at Austin has initiated a cost-saving measure that will eliminate the university's Central Receiving and Delivery Department and replace it with a logistics company--Austin-based MagRabbit, Inc.

The University of Texas at Austin College of Engineering has been named a top national producer of minority engineering undergraduates by Black Issues in Higher Education magazine.