Public Affairs
News Home
News Archive
News RSS Feed
|
Browsing Category: Campus
| Sept. 14 | New Directors Head Up Core Texts Program Government professors Thomas and Lorraine Pangle have been named co-directors of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas, College of Liberal Arts Dean Randy L. Diehl announced this week. The husband and wife team took over as interim leaders of the college’s Western Civilization program last December. With strong support from the program’s steering committee, they spent most of this year developing the Jefferson Center, which grew out of the Western Civilization program. |
| 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 4 | LBJ School of Public Affairs Dean Search Under Way The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs has begun its search for a new dean following the departure of James B. Steinberg, dean of the LBJ School since 2006, who was named U.S. deputy secretary of state earlier this year.
|
| May 27 | More than 50 Research Fellowships Awarded by the Harry Ransom Center The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has awarded more than 50 research fellowships for 2009-10. These fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial use of the Center's collections of manuscripts, rare books, film, photography, art and performing arts materials.
|
| May 6 | Audio Visual Library Moving to Fine Arts The University of Texas Libraries has announced the upcoming relocation of the Audio Visual Library (AVL) from its home in the Flawn Academic Center to the Fine Arts Library in the Doty Fine Arts Building.
|
|