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A. J. Godbolt

Godbolt is the son of Michael "Bucky" Godbolt, a popular Austin sports radio personality on 104.9 The Horn and former University of Texas running backs coach.

Ahmad D. Brooks

In 1998, Ahmad signed and became a valuable member of the University of Texas football team for Coach Mack Brown’s inaugural class at UT.

Alice Tuan

Tuan has facilitated playwright workshops at all levels throughout the United States, including MFA candidates at both the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin, and the California Institute of the Arts.

Ancora String Quartet

Its musicians studied at some of the leading music schools in the United States, including the New England Conservatory of Music, the Eastman School of Music, the Indiana University School of Music, and the University of Texas-Austin; they also serve as members of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Madison Bach Musicians, and other groups.

Bertram Colgrave

On his retirement from Durham University in 1954, he held visiting professorships at the University of North Carolina, University of Texas, University of Kansas, University of Colorado and Mount Holyoke College.

Clarence Hugo Linder

Linder was born in Ogema, Wisconsin, received his education through master's degree at the University of Texas, and in 1924 started his long career at General Electric.

Conrad Henry Moehlman

His son, Arthur Henry Moehlman (1907–1978) was a professor of history and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.

Crooked Zebra

Crooked Zebra is a 2004 novel by former University of Texas college basketball coach Bob Weltlich.

Dina Iordanova

Prior to her arrival at St. Andrews, she held positions at the Radio-TV-Film department at the University of Texas at Austin, a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago, and at the University of Leicester in England.

Ed Tittel

He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Texas and worked for American software corporation, Novell from 1987–1994, where his final position was Director of Technical Marketing (1993–1994).

Eric Miles Williamson

Williamson is currently Professor of Postmodern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Texas-Pan American and was previously an associate professor of English at the University of Central Missouri.

Evan Smith

He served for five years on the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors, most recently as its vice president; for six years on the board of KLRU, Austin's public television station, which he chaired; for nine years on the Austin Film Society board, twice serving as its president; and for eight years on the board of the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.

Frank N. Ikard

He earned an Bachelor of Arts in 1936 at the University of Texas in Austin, where he was a member of the honorary men's service organization known as the Texas Cowboys.

Hector Ruiz

In 2012, Ruiz—along with former First Lady Laura Bush, Charles Matthews, Melinda Perrin, Julius Glickman and Admiral William H. McRaven, the Navy Seal who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden—was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas.

Houston Christian High School

Student matriculation after their time at HC includes top universities in Texas and throughout the nation including but not limited to Davidson College, Texas A&M University, University of Texas, Cornell University, Vanderbilt University, and UVA.

J. Dean Cole

He completed his Residency at the University of South Florida Hospital before finishing his Fellowship in Orthopaedic Traumatology at the University of Texas Medical School.

James P. Allison

Dr. Allison earned his B.S. in Microbiology in 1969 and his Ph.D. in Biological Science from the University of Texas, Austin in 1973.

Jesse Mercer

A dissertation on Mercer's life and frontier experience was completed in 1950 at the University of Texas by Robert W. Mondy, the late professor of history at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana.

John A. Moran

Moran helped establish the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah, and is affiliated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Advisory Council of the University of Utah, and the George and Barbara Bush Endowment for Innovation Cancer Research at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas.

Juanita Craft

Following the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Craft worked to integrate the University of Texas Law School and the Dallas Independent School District.

Judith Fox

Fox's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), the Southeast Museum of Photography (SMP), The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida.

King Pu-tsung

King earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from Taiwan's National Chengchi University, then studied abroad to earn a master's degree in mass communications from Texas Tech University and a Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Texas, Austin in United States.

KMFA

On the weekends, the NPR program From the Top, showcasing young classical musicians, is heard on KMFA, as well as a program of classical music from the School of Music at the University of Texas-Austin.

Luciano Coutinho

Dr. Coutinho has also been a visiting professor at the University of Paris XIII, the University of Texas, the Institute Ortega y Gasset in Spain, as well as at the University of São Paulo (USP).

Marion Greene

After earning her M.B.A. from the University of Texas in Texas, Greene moved to the Twin Cities, where she worked in marketing for Pillsbury and General Mills before shifting to the medical device industry, working for Guidant and St. Jude Medical.

Maxwell's demon

The March 2011 issue of Scientific American features an article by Professor Mark G. Raizen of the University of Texas, Austin which discusses the first realization of Maxwell's demon with gas phase particles, as originally envisioned by Maxwell.

Mercedes, Texas

Rolando Hinojosa,Ph.d, Chicano Author of the Klail City Death Trip Series, University of Texas English Professor.

Mike Hanks

On temporary assignment from Samford, Hanks served as an assistant coach to then Texas coach, Bob Weltlich for the US national team in the 1982 FIBA World Championship, winning the silver medal in Cali, Colombia.

Miriam A. Ferguson

After her victory in the Democratic primary, she defeated George C. Butte, a prominent lawyer and University of Texas dean who emerged as the strongest Republican gubernatorial nominee in Texas since Reconstruction in 1869.

Muslim Interscholastic Tournament

In February 2002, Siddiqi and her core team of volunteers at the University of Houston and alumni of the Muslim Students' Association at the University of Texas, Austin, implemented the first MIST with 118 students from Houston, Austin, and Dallas.

Naismith College Player of the Year

Also, Clarissa Davis of the University of Texas, Dawn Staley of the University of Virginia, Chamique Holdsclaw of the University of Tennessee, Diana Taurasi and Maya Moore of the University of Connecticut, and Seimone Augustus of Louisiana State University won the award twice apiece.

New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

TMAP, which was created in 1995 while President Bush was governor of Texas, began as an alliance of individuals from the University of Texas, the pharmaceutical industry, and the mental health and corrections systems of Texas.

PARSEC

Its development started in early 1990s with James Chelikowsky (now at the University of Texas), Yousef Saad and collaborators at the University of Minnesota.

Project South Texas

The UT System is creating a new university that will be formed in 2015 from the merger of University of Texas–Pan American and the University of Texas at Brownsville.

Reel to Red Productions

Reel to Red Productions was the first internship program of its kind established by Chelse Benham in August 2004 at The University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA) in Edinburg, Texas, USA.

Richard A. Swanson

Richard A. Swanson (born 1942) is an American organizational theorist and Distinguished Research Professor of Human Resource Development and the Sam Lindsey Chair at the University of Texas at Tyler (UTT), known for his synthesis work on the financial research related to human resource development.

Roger Clemens Award

Roger Clemens was an extremely successful college player at the University of Texas before starting his professional career.

Sandesh Kadur

Sandesh Kadur did his schooling from The Home School, Bangalore and graduated in Wildlife Biology from The University of Texas at Brownsville.

Sichan Siv

He provides global strategic advice and gives motivational speeches around the United States and the world, including the Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush Presidential Libraries, Columbia University, Harvard, U.S. Air Force Academy, American Library in Paris, and University of Texas.

Sid W. Richardson

Sid Richardson Hall, an academic building at the University of Texas, Austin, which houses the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Eugene C. Barker Texas History Collection, the UT Center for American History, and the Benson Latin American Collection.

Steve Gehrke

He graduated from Minnesota State University, and University of Texas-Austin, with an MFA.

Thanhha Lai

Lai graduated from University of Texas, Austin with a degree in journalism and from 1988 worked about two years for the Orange County, California newspaper The Register, covering Little Saigon, the local Vietnamese community.

Thomas Sleeper

He received his Bachelor of Music at the University of Texas, and subsequently received his Master of Music at Southern Methodist University, where he studied under Daryl F. Rauscher of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and James Rives-Jones.

Travis Raven

He entered the University of Texas in 1941 and graduated in 1948 with three years in between serving in the Air Force.

UCrime

It uses location-based GIS maps to monitor crimes on college campuses and provide crime maps on campuses such as UC-Berkeley, The University of Texas, and The University of Maryland, College Park.

Western University College of Podiatric Medicine

The Founding Dean, Lawrence B. Harkless, DPM, joined the College in 2007, after serving for over 30 years as the Chairman of the Division of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio Texas.

William D. Wittliff

Wittliff was a Kappa Sigma at the Tau Chapter at the University of Texas; he was initiated in 1959 and in 2012 became the Fraternity's 79th recipient of the Man of the Year distinction.

William Henry Long

Under the guidance of George F. Atkinson, Long performed field work at Cornell University, which eventually led to a PhD degree awarded from the University of Texas in 1917.


see also

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.

Cenodoxus

Jacob Bidermann, Cenodoxus, ISBN 0-292-71027-5, edited by D.G. Dyer (1974 University of Texas Press, itself a reprint of an earlier entry in the Edinburgh Bilingual Library);

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

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.

East Loch Tarbert, Argyll

Hollander, Lee M. (ed. & tr.) (1964) Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway. Austin: University of Texas Press.

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.

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.

Lovelady High School

Homer Rainey - (January 19, 1896 – December 19, 1985) Former University of Texas president - (1939-1944), graduate of Lovelady High School class of 1913.

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.

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.

Pat Morris Neff

Neff was succeeded as governor by Miriam Wallace "Ma" Ferguson, wife of controversial former Governor James E. Ferguson, who defeated a stronger-than-usual Republican nominee, George C. Butte, an American jurist who had opposed James Ferguson's line item veto of the 1917 University of Texas appropriations bill.

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.

Review of International Organizations

Its current editors are Axel Dreher (Editor-in-Chief, University of Heidelberg), James Vreeland (Associate Editor, Georgetown University), Roland Vaubel (Associate Editor, University of Mannheim) and Todd Sandler (Associate Editor, University of Texas at Dallas).

Robert Schwarz Strauss

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

Rosa-Linda Fregoso

(2009) "Lupe Vélez: Queen of the Bs," From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture, edited by Myra Mendible, Austin: University of Texas Press.

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.

Sniper Twins

Barry Adam Flanagan and Dax Armand Martinez-Vargas attended film school at University of Texas where they created the sketch comedy show Nothing Liquid with friends Jeff Bevill and Brandon Wilde which screened at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

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

Telluride Association Summer Program

Nationally known faculty who have taught TASP include: John Schaar (UC Santa Cruz), Hanna Pitkin (UC Berkeley), Donald Kagan (Yale), Kurt Heinzelman and Sue Heinzelman (University of Texas), Herbert Storing (University of Chicago), Robert Nozick (Harvard), Leon Kass (University of Chicago), and Thomas Palaima (University of Texas).

Terry Jordan

Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov (1938–2003), Author, Professor at the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin.

The Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry

The first award went to Allen J. Bard from University of Texas at Austin and was presented from University of Texas at Austin and was presented on on Monday, March 5, 1984 in Atlantic City, New Jersey at the 1984 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy in the “Symposium on New Techniques in Electroanalytical Chemistry”.

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.