Yearly Archives: 2007

The nation's leading conservation education and advocacy group has honored Dr. Camille Parmesan, associate professor of integrative biology at The University of Texas at Austin, with its National Conservation Achievement Award for exemplary leadership in protecting the environment and natural resources.

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the United States Botanic Garden (USBG) will release a report today recommending guidelines and a rating system for sustainable landscape design.

James W. McKie, professor emeritus of economics, died Oct. 30, following a long illness.

Dr. Fred Chang, research professor of computer sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, and Admiral Bobby Inman, the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, have been appointed to the new Commission on Cyber Security, established to make sure that the next president of the United States has an updated strategy to counter growing cyber threats.

The newly constructed Research Office Complex has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

John Warfield, former director of the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) in the College of Liberal Arts and associate professor of educational psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, died Oct. 25 in Kalamazoo, Mich., after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.

The McCombs School of Business Hall of Fame inducted four prominent business leaders Oct. 26 at a ceremony at the Driskill Hotel in Austin.

Researchers from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and The University of Texas at Austin will explore ways to control optical energy for applications in nanoscience and nanotechnology as leaders of a five-university consortium awarded $1.4 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Although African Americans and Hispanics make up 32 percent of all U.S. citizens in the average age range of Ph.D. candidates in arts and sciences, only seven percent of all doctoral recipients are black or Latino, according to a 2005 report from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Four professors at The University of Texas at Austin have been elected as 2007 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).