Monthly Archives: Aug. 2009

"Gone to Texas," the official welcome for new students entering The University of Texas at Austin, will be held on the university's Main Mall at 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 25, the evening before classes start on Aug. 26.

Paula Poindexter, associate professor and graduate adviser in journalism at The University of Texas at Austin, is the inaugural recipient of the Lionel C. Barrow, Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education presented by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

Read the research blog Further Findings. Now on the blog: Soon-to-be UT students share their experiences in the Science & Engineering Apprenticeship Program at the Applied Research Laboratories. Research Prizes and Honors [Have you or a colleague won a research-related prize or honor? Let the Research Alert know.] THREE PROFESSORS SELECTED AS INAUGURAL FELLOWS OF…   » Continue Reading

The University of Texas Elementary School enters its seventh year of operation under the title of "Exemplary," based on its spring 2009 scores on the Texas Academic Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) tests. UT Elementary joins Austin ISD's Blanton and Ortega elementary schools as the only east Austin schools with this rating.

Kimberly Cole, an undergraduate student of interior design in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin, is the recipient of a $30,000 Angelo Donghia Senior Scholarship in Interior Design, the largest interior design scholarship in the United States.

About half of the 49 professors who will be joining the College of Liberal Arts faculty in 2009-2010 are female. That includes an unprecedented five women coming in as full professors from such schools as Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Southern California.

"We live on a planet powered by a star." —Whoopi Goldberg, "Journey to the Stars" Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History The Sun is the source of life and light, a bright companion in our travels through space. In recent years, new observations, new theories and new computer models of the Sun have shed…   » Continue Reading

The death of a spouse has a much more profound effect on weight change than marital status, according to new research by sociologists at The University of Texas at Austin.

Officials broke ground this past weekend for a new building at The University of Texas at Austin's Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas.

It’s time once again for nature to put on its late-summer fireworks show: the Perseid meteor shower. This year’s best viewing will be before dawn on Aug. 12, with a second chance after sunset that night, according to the editors of StarDate magazine.