Monthly Archives: June 2007

The University of Texas at Austin has received a grant of $175,000 from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles to help develop a preservation plan for the university's historic core, widely and traditionally referred to as the 'Forty Acres.'

Dr. Hans Mark, aerospace engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, has been honored with the U.S. Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award for more than 50 years of research with military relevance.

More than 40 Texas high school students will participate in the fourth annual University of Texas at Austin Global Ethics and Conflict Resolution Summer Symposium which combines academics, service and research to train participants in ethical and creative problem-solving strategies, conflict analysis methods and negotiation skills.

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin and Region XIII Education Service Center announce a series of four workshops for teachers interested in learning more about the United States in the 1920s.

The first class of students enrolling at the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders are learning about issues from health to leadership as part of a Summer Transition Camp.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and The University of Texas at Austin have announced the naming of the university's new AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center and an exclusive communications services agreement in recognition of a $25 million commitment from AT&T to the university.

The University of Texas at Austin will make a major announcement Tuesday, June 12, at 10 a.m. regarding the new Executive Education and Conference Center on The University of Texas at Austin campus.

Frederick (Fritz) Steiner, dean of the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin, is being awarded the 2007 Community Service Award by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).

Jeanne D. Carpenter has been named associate vice president for student affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.

Will Dunlap, a first-year graduate student in the James. A. Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin, has won the 2007 Keene Prize for Literature, the world's largest student literary prize. This is the second year the $90,000 award has been given by the College of Liberal Arts.