Media Advisories
| June 16 | StarDate magazine introduces media service |
| June 16 | Mosher named dean of Jackson School |
June 29 The University of Texas at Austin Ranks Second in Nation with Graduates Accepted for Teach for America Program
The University of Texas at Austin ranks second in the nation's top 20 large-sized colleges and universities contributing graduating seniors to Teach for America's 2009 corps.June 25 Brian Roberts Resigns as VP for Information Technology
Brian Roberts, vice president for information technology at The University of Texas at Austin since 2006, has resigned and will return to the faculty in the College of Liberal Arts, effective immediately.June 24 Third Annual Clean Energy Venture Summit Offers Behind the Scenes Look at the Smart Grid Agenda
The third annual Clean Energy Venture Summit: Bringing the Smart Grid to Life is scheduled for Oct. 14 and 15 at the AT&T Executive Center, the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) Clean Energy Incubator has announced.June 18 Method for Computing Evolutionary Trees Could Revolutionize Evolutionary Biology
Detailed, accurate evolutionary trees that reveal the relatedness of living things can now be determined much faster and for thousands of species with a computing method developed by computer scientists and a biologist at The University of Texas at Austin. They report their new method in the journal Science. Since Charles Darwin, biologists have constructed evolutionary trees [...]June 18 Baseball, Golf Tournaments Have Economic Impact
Conservative estimates show that during the NCAA Austin baseball regional and super regional weekends, $2.1 million were infused into the economy, according to Don Hoyte with Texas Trust Funds. In addition, The University of Texas at Austin also hosted the NCAA Men's Golf Central Regional Championship in May, and that event is estimated to have generated [...]June 18 Student-athletes Achieve Academic Success
For the spring 2009 semester, 235 student-athletes at The University of Texas at Austin-more than 60 percent-earned a 3.0 grade-point average (GPA) or better, and 36 student-athletes earned perfect 4.0 GPAs. In addition, all but three men's and women's varsity programs earned team GPAs of 3.0 or better. "Our goal is to have all of our teams [...]June 10 Frida Kahlo Biographer Hayden Herrera To Speak at the Harry Ransom Center
EVENT: Hayden Herrera, art historian and biographer of Frida Kahlo, presents "Frida Kahlo: Her Art and Life" for the 2009 Amon Carter Lecture. WHEN: Thursday, June 18, at 7 p.m. WHERE: Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, 21st and Guadalupe streets. Seating is free, but limited. BACKGROUND: Herrera's talk interweaves Frida Kahlo's art and [...]June 9 Texas-Sized Computer Finds Most Massive Black Hole in Galaxy M87; Indicates Accepted Masses for Black Holes in Nearby Galaxies Too Low
The Lonestar supercomputer is a resource of the University's Texas Advanced Computing Center. Credit: TACC/UT-Austin Astronomers Karl Gebhardt of The University of Texas at Austin and Jens Thomas of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have used new computer modeling techniques to discover that the black hole at the heart of M87, one the largest nearby giant [...]June 9 University of Texas at Austin 'Picosatellite' To Be Launched from Space Shuttle To Begin Milestone Small-Satellite Mission
In an initial step toward the first successful rendezvous and docking of very small satellites without human control, a pair of miniature "picosatellites" built by University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University engineering students will be launched into orbit this month from Space Shuttle Endeavour. In the process, the students will try to accomplish [...]
