Yearly Archives: 2005

Dr. Alexa Stuifbergen, associate dean of The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, has received a $1.6 million National Institutes of Health grant to continue her studies on improving the quality of life for persons coping with multiple sclerosis.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have identified a material to make cheaper, longer-lasting fuel cells without compromising their energy production.

Texas science teachers will be getting intensive, hands-on, region-specific professional development training thanks to a $5.9 million grant awarded to The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Regional Collaboratives for Excellence in Science Teaching (TRC).

The Migrant Student Graduation Enhancement Program at The University of Texas at Austin has received the 2005 Minority Affairs program award from the national Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE). Peggy Wimberley, program coordinator for the Migrant Student Graduation Enhancement Program, accepted the award on Nov. 1 in Madison, Wis., at the 67th annual ACHE conference.

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin contributed to the restoration project of the 1922 movie 'Beyond the Rocks,' long considered one of the great lost films.

The University of Texas at Austin School of Law has received $500,000 of a $1 million pledge from Texas trial attorney and UT Law alumnus George Fleming. The $500,000 gift will allow the Law School to fund a major renovation of its ground-floor dining commons, which will be named 'George's Cafe' in Fleming's honor.

Julien Carter, former associate vice president for human resources at the University of Louisville, has been appointed associate vice president for human resources at The University of Texas at Austin, Patricia L. Clubb, the university's vice president for employee and campus services, has announced.

The U.S. Department of Energy has granted $1.2 million to University of Texas at Austin engineers to improve the accuracy of computer simulations of processes that occur in different lengths of time, different scales of size or in other multi-layered circumstances.

The Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program, one of the most well-endowed visiting scholar and graduate fellow programs in the nation, begins its fifth year at The University of Texas at Austin with a new group of 15 outstanding scholars.

The Tuition Policy Advisory Committee (TPAC) at The University of Texas at Austin has recommended to President Larry R. Faulkner average tuition increases of 5.5 percent and 3.9 percent for resident undergraduate students for the next two academic years. Graduate and non-resident students would see similar increases.