Academics

As an undergraduate engineering student at the University of Connecticut, Sheldon Bish participated in the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates at The University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe, an icon of entrepreneurial engineering and inventor of today’s local-area networking standard, Ethernet, has been selected to lead innovation initiatives at The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering.

Event: Millennials-the generation born between the early ’80s and ’90s-are digital natives who are constantly connected and ready to consume information day and night.

University of Texas at Austin students will celebrate Thanks Day on Nov. 10, to express appreciation to alumni, faculty, family, donors and the state for supporting their education.

The Austin Housing Authority has funded a new intensive mentoring and college readiness project called It Could Be U, a collaboration among Intellectual Entrepreneurship — a program in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at The University of Texas at Austin — the Media Communications Council and its parent organization, the Texas Diversity Council.

When Dr. Nina Fredland was an elementary and middle school nurse in Houston children came to her clinic with vague complaints such as headaches and stomach aches.

Many low-income and diverse student learners soon will have principals and superintendents who are better prepared to address their specific learning needs, thanks to a $730,000 grant to The University of Texas at Austin’s University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA).

Seven new department chairs have been appointed in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin this fall.

Event: As part of its fall lecture series, the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE) hosts a panel featuring Dr. M.

Speech-language researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help Central Texas first graders from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds overcome language impairments.

Parents and teachers interested in special education issues are invited to the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE) Scholarship in Action lecture on Thursday, Oct. 21 from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Community Engagement Center in east Austin.

A major report that was delivered to Congress earlier this year and that contains recommendations from U.S. education stakeholders for the transformation of teacher education programs will be available to the public at noon, Tuesday, Oct. 12, at www.redefineteachered.org.