Chiyuma Elliott (American Studies) received a 2010-11 John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society.
Tracy Wuster (American Studies) received a 2010-11 Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship.
Jenny Kelly (American Studies) received a 2010-11 Ellen Clarke …
posted: Nov 9th, 2010
Six College of Liberal Arts professors have received 2010 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards from The University of Texas System. They are among 72 recipients from across the system’s 15 academic institutions. They will share $2 million in …
posted: Oct 12th, 2010
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza (English) shared insight into the role cities play in TV shows and movies in an Aug. 11 Christian Science Monitor story.
Mary Hayhoe’s (Psychology) eye-tracking research in the Children’s Research Lab was featured in The New York Times …
posted: Sep 24th, 2010
Flashing a “Hook ‘Em” hand sign and touting the importance of higher education, President Barack Obama spoke to hundreds of students, faculty and guests at Gregory Gymnasium on Aug. 9.
The receptive — …
posted: Sep 21st, 2010
“While there is a very vibrant scholarship in African American history and African American women’s history, the issue of entrepreneurship is something that has sometimes been ignored,” says Tiffany …
posted: Sep 20th, 2010
As universities increasingly explore the educational value of digital environments such as the blogosphere, Google maps or Second Life, students and faculty are …
posted: Sep 20th, 2010
After Sly Majid graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in government in 2004, he landed a secure job at an insurance company …
posted: Sep 20th, 2010
More than four decades ago, The University of Texas at Austin and its Naval ROTC program gave James Mulva the education, discipline and support that would help shape his future.
Today, …
posted: Sep 20th, 2010
When then-Harvard University Professor John Huehnergard and his wife and colleague Jo Ann Hackett first visited The University of Texas at Austin last year, they couldn’t help but notice the …
posted: Sep 20th, 2010
For creating the most vivid and vital portrayal of the American experience in microcosm, Creative Writing graduate Nora Boxer has won the $50,000 Keene Prize for Literature.
Her story “It’s the song of the nomads, baby; …
posted: Sep 18th, 2010
Kate Gartner Frost, professor emeritus of English, died July 25 at age 71. A scholar of the English and European Renaissance, Gartner Frost came to The University of Texas at Austin in 1974. She is the author …
posted: Sep 18th, 2010
In the age of Obama, the Tea Party and global financial uncertainty, the Government Department is helping its students and the rest of the world make sense of the political changes under way.
Celebrating its 100th anniversary …
posted: Sep 18th, 2010
The Plan II experience will begin next March, as it has for 75 years, with a course in world literature.
That will be followed by philosophy, then the junior seminar and senior thesis. Professors will include world-renowned …
posted: Sep 18th, 2010
When it opened its doors in 1960, the Population Research Center (PRC) was the exclusive domain of sociologists. Who else, after all, was qualified to research demographics, migration issues and population trends?
The answer, it turns out …
posted: Sep 18th, 2010
The Naval ROTC program at The University of Texas at Austin was barely a year old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States was thrust into World War II. The …
posted: Sep 18th, 2010
The word “internship” often conjures images of frantic coffee runs, mind-numbing busywork and countless hours in front of the copy machines. But for many liberal arts students …
posted: Sep 18th, 2010
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the English Department’s Shakespeare at Winedale program, alumni reunited this summer and performed scenes from several of the Bard’s plays.
Among them was Kathryn Blackbird, class of 1984 and 1986. …
posted: Sep 18th, 2010
As Americans continue to debate immigration reform, border enforcement and Arizona’s recent legislation, College of Liberal Arts experts are helping to shape the discussion through a unique online video …
posted: Sep 18th, 2010
Recovering a forgotten history of African American life was motivation enough for anthropology graduate student Nedra Lee and her peers to brave the Texas summer heat while excavating …
posted: Sep 18th, 2010
Each morning as I head to my office in the Gebauer building, I walk past the classical letters that adorn the outside walls of the Tower.
Those letters — in …
posted: Sep 18th, 2010
Days before Heidi Baker Curry opened the first high school on the island of Caye Caulker, Belize, in 2008 she received a knock at her door from a teenage boy …
posted: Sep 17th, 2010
Each spring, Frank Denius meets with a group of about 20 University of Texas at Austin students who are about to leave for Europe as part of the …
posted: Sep 17th, 2010
Twenty-five years ago, W. Parker Frisbie stumbled into the field of mortality research by accident.
The young sociology professor’s interest in mortality, the study of death in a population, was …
posted: Sep 17th, 2010
Once upon a time, a very special 18-year-old girl came into my life, and she has been there ever since,” Frances Vick said about her friend and 2010 Pro …
posted: Sep 17th, 2010
Imagine a runaway trolley hurtling down the tracks toward a handful of people. If it continues on its course, it will kill the group of innocent bystanders. You’re …
posted: Sep 17th, 2010
As one of the worst environmental disasters in history unfolded in the Gulf of Mexico this spring, it was only fitting that the Humanities Institute’s Faculty Fellows Seminar was …
posted: Sep 17th, 2010
