Yearly Archives: 2005

The American Assembly has appointed Francis J. Gavin, assistant professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, as director of its Next Generation Project: Creating Better Global Institutions for America.

A major international conference focusing on the health of aging Latinos in the Americas will be held at LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin on Sept. 21-22.

With a nod to early English bards and a wink at the current pop fascination with forensics, the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin announces the schedule for its new season of Poetry on the Plaza readings.

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin holds the archives of three of the 17 authors on the longlist for the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, an internationally recognized literary prize for British and Commonwealth fiction.

An exhibition featuring architectural drawings and archival material highlighting the legacy of architect Herbert Miller Greene (1871-1932) will be on display in the Architecture and Planning Library at The University of Texas at Austin from Aug. 31 through Dec. 20, 2005.

The Science, Technology and Society program (STS) introduced in August its first issue of STS Nanolog, an online forum on cultural and societal impacts of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Dr. John Dollard, professor in the Department of Mathematics and associate dean of graduate studies, has been appointed vice provost for forecasting, institutional research and modeling at The University of Texas at Austin.

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved The University of Texas at Austin's recommendation to establish the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences as a separate unit at the level of a college.

A model for a wireless device that would transmit libraries-full of information each second is being designed by an electrical and computer engineering team at The University of Texas at Austin with $909,000 from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.

The University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the Department of French and Italian and the France-University of Texas Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies will present 'Colloqueneau: Queneau for Everybody,' a symposium to examine and celebrate the work of French writer Raymond Queneau, on Sept. 16 and 17.