http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:22:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_3507" align="alignleft" width="192" caption="Jim Crace"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_3506" align="alignleft" width="193" caption="Anthony Giardina"][/caption] Visiting professors of the Michener Center for Writers' (MCW) this fall, Jim Crace and Anthony Giardina, will give a reading at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 3, 2009 at the Avaya Auditorium, ACES building 2.302, on campus. English novelist Crace, ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2009/11/24/michener-center-visiting-writers-to-read-december-3/ [caption id="attachment_3487" align="alignleft" width="214" caption="Norman German, author of "A Savage Wisdom""][/caption] “A Savage Wisdom” is inspired by the life, crimes and legends of Annie Beatrice McQuiston, aka Toni Jo Henry, the only woman executed in Louisiana's electric chair. ShelfLife@Texas asked author and University of Texas at Austin graduate alumnus (English ’79) ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2009/11/18/ut-alumnus-inspired-by-true-crimes-of-first-woman-executed-in-louisiana-for-his-latest-book/ [caption id="attachment_3476" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Roger Reeves, left, and Malachi Black, Lilly Fellows"][/caption] For the second year running, a student in the Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in Writing program of the Michener Center for Writers has received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, among the most distinguished awards for aspiring poets who have ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2009/11/16/michener-students-win-lilly-fellowship-for-second-year-running/ This week, “The Handbook of Family Communication,” edited by Anita Vangelisti, the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Professor in Communication, will receive the distinguished book award from Family Communication Division of the National Communication Association (NCA) at its annual conference in Chicago. "In the Handbook of Family Communication," researchers examine communication across ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2009/11/11/anita-vangelisti-shares-tips-for-better-communication/ Microsoft founder Bill Gates praised Distinguished Teaching Professor of History David Oshinsky's book "Polio: An American Story" (Oxford University Press, 2005) during a speech titled "Why We are Impatient Optimists" last month in Wash. D.C. Highlighting Oshinsky's historical account of the polio epidemic in America, Gates addressed the need for improvements ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2009/11/09/bill-gates-praises-david-oshinskys-pulitzer-prize-winning-book/ University of Texas at Austin faculty and alumni authors will share their expertise on topics ranging from the fate of Savannah during the Civil War, to mapping a career path, to the culture of Texas barbecue at the 2009 Texas Book Festival Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at the Texas Capitol and ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2009/10/30/texas-book-festival-begins-this-weekend/ Thomas McGarity and Wendy Wagner won the $10,000 grand prize at the Hamilton Book Awards for their book, “Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research” on Oct. 28 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin. McGarity is the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair in Administrative ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2009/10/29/winners-of-the-hamilton-book-awards-announced/ Could today’s youth be the ultimate experts in the digital evolution? Craig Watkins, associate professor of Radio-Television-Film, answers this question and takes us into the world of new media in his latest project, “The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2009/10/23/digital-media-exploration-of-social-networking-and-new-media/ University of Texas law professor Kristine A. Huskey will discuss and sign her new book, “Justice at Guantanamo: One Woman's Odyssey and Her Crusade for Human Rights,” at BookPeople at 7 p.m., Thursday, October 22. Huskey, who teaches in the Law School's National Security Clinic and is a fellow at the ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2009/10/22/bookpeople-reading-features-law-professors-journey-from-alaska-to-gitmo/ You don’t have to be an Einstein to learn more about Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity, thanks to Alberto Martínez’s accessible writing style in his new book titled "Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein's Relativity" published by Johns Hopkins University Press 2009. Martínez, an assistant professor in the Department of ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2009/10/16/lightning-strikes-twice/