May 6 Graduate Student and Professor Honored for Career Services Contributions
Fidel Zapatas, a graduate student in the College of Education, and Mary Jane Burson, professor and practicum coordinator for Human Development and Family Sciences, have been honored by the Texas Campus Career Council (TC3) at The University of Texas at Austin with the Robert Murff Excellence Award for outstanding support of career services at the [...]May 5 Four University of Texas at Austin Students Earn Fulbright Hays Award
Four students at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to participate in the Yoruba Intensive Group Projects Abroad Program (GPA) in Nigeria for summer 2009.May 1 Biochemistry Senior Wins $20,000 Top Prize in University Co-op George H. Mitchell Student Awards
Yuxuan Wang, a senior majoring in biochemistry, has won the $20,000 grand prize in the 10th annual University Co-op George H. Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence for undergraduate students at The University of Texas at Austin.April 29 Computer Scientist Named to President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
William H. Press, the Warren J. and Viola M. Raymer Professor in Computer Sciences and Integrative Biology at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).April 29 Professor in Computational Mechanics Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Thomas J.R. Hughes, an innovator in computational mechanics, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States.April 23 Students Win Seven Awards at Advertising Competition
Advertising students at The University of Texas at Austin have won seven student ADDY® Awards, including five student gold ADDY Awards, in the American Advertising Federation's (AAF) district 10 competition.April 22 H.W. Brands Named as Pulitzer Prize Finalist for His Book "Traitor to His Class"
H.W. Brands, professor of history at The University of Texas at Austin, was among the 93rd annual Pulitzer Prize finalists. He was nominated in the category of biography or autobiography for his book "Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt." This is the second time Brands has been [...]April 22 University of Texas at Austin Engineer Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Adam Heller, an acclaimed chemical engineering research professor and professor emeritus at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected a fellow into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS), along with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela, actor James Earl Jones, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and singer/humanitarian Bono.April 22 Professor Named Vice President of American Academy of Advertising
Advertising Professor Wei-Na Lee has been elected vice president of the American Academy of Advertising (AAA), a national organization of advertising scholars and professionals with an interest in advertising and advertising education.April 17 Six Are Named Distinguished Alumni at The University of Texas at Austin
The Texas Exes have announced the 2009 University of Texas at Austin Distinguished Alumnus Award recipients. The six alumni who will be given the award are being recognized for distinguishing themselves professionally and through service to the university.April 13 Two Natural Sciences Students Named Goldwater Scholars
Lynne Chantranupong and Sean Simmons, undergraduates in the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, are among the 278 students nationally who have been named Goldwater Scholars for the 2009-2010 academic year.April 9 School of Information Professor Receives First Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Library Association
Dr. Barbara Immroth, professor in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin, has received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Library Association (TLA).
