Student Experience

The University of Texas at Austin will host the 17th annual “Longhorn Halloween” from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31, at the Frank Erwin Center.

From King Kong to Godzilla, what makes these movie monsters tick? Get in on the hype surrounding Science Study Break lectures.

Doctoral students are invited to apply for the Francis Fowler Wallace Memorial Award — administered by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health — to support their research of mental health-related topics.

Joanna Hitchcock, director of the University of Texas Press at The University of Texas at Austin since 1992, will retire from that position at the end of February 2011.

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.