Renewable energy. Politics. Indigenous languages. Cardiovascular health. See a pattern? The Graduate School does. This year, four graduate students from very different fields of study became connected when they were selected as the first recipients of the William C. Powers…
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Congratulations to this year’s Powers Fellows!
Tagged with: Allison DeVan, Jacob Maguire, Julia O'Rourke, Powers Fellowship, Simeon Floyd
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Where do you study?
There are 15 libraries on the University of Texas campus, tables sitting in the sunshine outside of the Texas Union and a Starbucks on 24th Street. There’s a Reading Center at McCombs, numerous study tables downstairs in the Communication building…
Founder of Building Tomorrow to speak at UT
If you’ve ever been interested in the non-profit sector or just want to get a little inspired, an exciting opportunity is coming up next Thursday, October 29. A Q & A session with George Srour, founder of the nationally-recognized Building…
Tagged with: Building Tomorrow, Community Service, George Srour, Guest Speakers
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This is Your Brain Online
As graduate students know all too well, much of the information we absorb on a daily basis comes to us through some sort of electronic medium. Whether reading a newspaper article on our laptops or perusing restaurant reviews on our…
Next Paisano Fellow shares tall tales, not-so-tall tales and “Birdisms”
Sarah Bird’s favorite description of herself as an author came from a high school student who was forced to attend a literary reading by her English teacher. She says, “Sarah Bird was tall and thin and wore these cute reading…
Tagged with: Graduate School, Paisano Fellowship, Ralph A. Johnston Fellowship, Sarah Bird, Texas Monthly
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