Student Experience

Gary Lavergne, director of admissions research in the Office of Admissions, is an acclaimed author of four books, including his most recent “Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall and The Long Road to Justice.”

Event: Women’s Programming Alliance of The University of Texas at Austin will present Rajasvini Bhansali in a talk titled “We Are All Manorama: Stories of Young Women’s Creativity and Courage from India and South Africa.”

Since 1996, the Hearts of Texas Charitable Campaign has provided an easy and efficient way for UT faculty and staff to make donations to causes they care about. The annual Hearts of Texas drive runs through October.

The University of Texas at Austin has received $198,000 from the Exxon Mobil Corporation to support its business, engineering, geosciences, law, natural sciences and public affairs programs.

In response to numerous Freedom of Information Act requests, the University of Texas Police Department (UTPD) will release copies of the following materials to media today (Oct. 13) from 3 to 5 p.m.:

“Lose the cancer stick.” “When you get a real job, you’re going to be one of those people who has to stand out by the street to smoke.” “That smoke’s killing the people who have to be around you.”

Billy Charlton has been named associate director of the Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst Center for Private Equity Finance and senior lecturer in the Department of Finance in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

Sarita E. Brown, president of Excelencia in Education, lauds the educational impact of the university’s Intellectual Entrepreneurship initiative.

Celeste Ward Gventer, a defense policy expert, has been named associate director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin.

Through Longhorn Confidential, eight students — from first-year undergrads to graduate students — share their thoughts and experiences online.

As the Tea Party movement tries to gain clout, Democrats struggle to hold onto power and Texans focus on a gubernatorial race, faculty experts at The University of Texas at Austin are offering analysis of next month’s historic mid-term elections.

A bipartisan coalition of student organizations at The University of Texas at Austin will host “Hook the Vote 2010,” a day-long, campus-wide voter registration drive Monday, Oct. 4, encouraging students and other members of the university community to vote in the upcoming election.