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1975 College World Series

The Most Outstanding Player was Mickey Reichenbach of The University of Texas.

Charlie Baird

Baird attended Kilgore College, then transferred to The University of Texas, graduating in 1976 with a degree in business administration.

John Stockwell

Stockwell attended school in Lubondai before studying in the Plan II Honors program at The University of Texas.

The Pennington School

Recent Pennington track participants have gone on to compete at the Division I and Division III level at The University of Texas, Lafayette, West Point, McDaniel, St. Lawrence, Wheaton, TCNJ, and Dickinson.


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Allan Shivers

In 1973, Democratic Governor Dolph Briscoe appointed Shivers to a six-year term on the University of Texas Board of Regents.

Archer Mayor

He also worked for the University of Texas Press in the late 1970s, where, as Special Projects Editor, he found and caused to be published The Book of Merlyn, the hitherto barely known conclusion to T. H. White's famous The Once and Future King.

Betty Sue Flowers

Flowers is a native Texan and graduated from the University of Texas and the University of London.

Beverly J. Stoeltje

She continued on at the University of Texas to pursue both her M.A. (1973) and her Ph.D. (1979) in Folklore (Folkloristics) within the graduate folklore program associated with the UT Department of Anthropology.

Charles Alan Wright

He was also a member of the committee that was formed to hire a new head football coach of the University of Texas in 1997, eventually hiring Mack Brown.

Charles McDowell

Charles T. McDowell (1921–2007), Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Arlington

Chris D. Thomas

He completed his first degree (BA) in Applied Biology at the University of Cambridge, followed by an MSc in Ecology at the University of Bangor and a PhD at the University of Texas at Austin.

Cullen Loeffler

Loeffler is the son of Tom Loeffler, a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives who also played football for the University of Texas under Darrell Royal.

Derrick Johnson

Johnson enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin, and played for coach Mack Brown's Texas Longhorns football team from 2001 to 2004 and became one of the most dominant linebackers in Longhorns history.

Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute

Myck Kabongo, basketball player currently attending the University of Texas on Basketball scholar

Eddie Lucio, Jr.

Lucio has worked to establish the partnership between the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College which allows UTB to become a four-year university and have access to the Permanent University Fund.

Estuaries and Coasts

The co-editors-in-chief are Iris Anderson (Virginia Institute of Marine Science) and Wayne Gardner (The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute).

Fisher v. University of Texas

Amicus briefs have been filed by Teach for America, the Asian American Legal Foundation, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, the California Association of Scholars and Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, the Black Student Alliance at The University of Texas, the Mountain States Legal Foundation, the Pacific Legal Foundation, Peter Kirsanow, Stuart Taylor, Jr. and others.

George Kozmetsky

He co-founded Teledyne Inc. and was the dean of The University of Texas College of Business Administration (now the McCombs School of Business) for 16 years.

H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports

The Stark Center holdings also include the 2500-volume Edmund Hoffman Golf collection, as well as photographs, artifacts and papers donated by professional golfers Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite, both alumni from the University of Texas.

J. Frank Dobie

Two fellowships of six months each are awarded by a committee chosen by the presidents of the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters.

Jeffrey H. Cohen

Since the late 1980s he has worked in Oaxaca's central valleys region and specifically in the community of Santa Ana del Valle, documented in his book, Cooperation and Community, published in 1999 by the University of Texas Press.

John David Crow

Later that year, after Arkansas left the Southwest Conference, Crow and DeLoss Dodds, the athletic director at the University of Texas, met with officials from the Pac-10 Conference about aligning with that conference.

John Sealy

John Sealy Hospital, a hospital that is a part of the University of Texas Medical Branch complex in Galveston, Texas, United States

John Sharp

John M. Sharp, professor of geology at The University of Texas at Austin

Jonathan Meiburg

After a year spent in such diverse places as the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, the Aboriginal settlement of Kowanyama in Australia, the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, and the Inuit settlement of Kimmirut in Baffin Island, Canada, he enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a master's degree in Geography and wrote a thesis titled "The Biogeography of Striated Caracaras (Phalcoboenus australis)".

Justin Blalock

Blalock attended the University of Texas, where he played for coach Mack Brown's Texas Longhorns football team from 2002 to 2006.

Lowell Mick White

In 1998, White was awarded the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters, a six-month residency at a ranch formerly belonging to writer J. Frank Dobie, an honor that has previously gone to such Texas writers as Sandra Cisneros, Dagoberto Gilb, and Oscar Casares.

Major Applewhite

On January 16, 2008, Applewhite accepted an offer to become running backs coach at the University of Texas and he also served as assistant head coach to Mack Brown.

Marshall Formby

Sharleen taught at the Army War College in Washington, D.C., and later attended the University of Texas Graduate School, where she studied radio communication.

Melba J. T. Vasquez

She taught psychology both at The University of Texas and at Colorado State University before moving into private practice.

Michael Stuart Brown

Moving to the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas, now the UT Southwestern Medical Center, Brown and colleague Joseph L. Goldstein researched cholesterol metabolism and discovered that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that extract cholesterol from the bloodstream.

Nelson Olmsted

After study at the University of Texas, Olmsted began in radio in the late 1930s as an announcer for WBAP in Fort Worth, Texas.

Nick Boddie Williams

Williams was born in Onancock, Virginia, and studied at the University of Texas, where he earned a degree in government in 1929.

O. Henry Hall

After its acquisition by the University of Texas, it was renamed for the author, who had previously resided nearby in what is now officially called the William Sidney Porter House, but is better known as the O. Henry House.

Paydirt

Paydirt Pete, the mascot of the University of Texas at El Paso

Phil Morrison

Philip J. Morrison (born 1950), American physicist in the field of hydrodynamics and plasma physics and a professor at the University of Texas

Quan Cosby

Cosby was drafted by the Anaheim Angels in the sixth round of the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft and left his commitment to the University of Texas to do so.

Rob Todd

Todd was born in Kirksville, Missouri, and attended the University of Texas at Austin and the South Texas College of Law.

Robert Schwarz Strauss

He is also the namesake of The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas.

Robert Solomon

Robert C. Solomon (1942–2007), lecturer in continental philosophy at the University of Texas

Samuel Kirkpatrick

Samuel A. Kirkpatrick, president of the University of Texas at San Antonio (1990–1999) and Eastern Michigan University (2001–2004)

Slammiversary 10

A publication from the University of Texas at Arlington newspaper, The Shorthorn, gave accounts of many residents that expressed desire to see the company return for future events, highlighting their experience as "moneys worth" and "one of the best wrestling shows" they've seen.

Stephen Martin

Stephen F. Martin, American chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin

TACC

Texas Advanced Computing Center, a research center at the University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas National Championship 2005

The University of Texas National Championship 2005 is a painting by Opie Otterstad.

Tsvi Piran

1977-79: Research associate and later Assistant Prof. at the University of Texas at Austing with Bryce DeWitt's group: foundation of Numerical Relativity, jets in AGNs.

Walter E. Rogers

He received his law degree from the University of Texas in 1935 and became the city attorney for Pampa, Texas three years later.

Wendell Wise Mayes, Jr.

His paternal grandfather was newspaperman William Harding Mayes, Lt. Governor of Texas from 1913 to 1914 and the founder of the journalism school and first Dean of Journalism at the University of Texas.

Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade

Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade is a 2010 book about the Temple Mount edited by Oleg Grabar and Benjamin Z. Kedar and published by the University of Texas Press.

William S. Livingston

During his tenure, he received Ford and Guggenheim Fellowships, chaired two departments, developed numerous programs and served as Dean of the Graduate School and acting President of the University of Texas at Austin.

Willie Zapalac

Willie had two sons (Bill and Jeff) that played football at the University of Texas.