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• John Watson Foster Dulles, Author and Latin American Studies Professor for Forty-Five Years at the University of Texas, Dies at the Age of 95

  - 2008-06-24

  John W.F. Dulles Died at North Central Baptist Hospital, San Antonio, Monday, June 23, 2008 at Approximately 1:20 am CDT SAN ANTONIO -- Professor Dulles was the first born son of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Janet Pomeroy Avery. He was born in 1913 in Auburn,...

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• KU professor helps find frog

  - 2008-02-16

  A Lawrence herpetologist is among those who've found a new frog species - the North American Cajun Chorus Frog. The frog was discovered recently by Joseph T. Collins, a herpetologist with the Kansas Biological Survey at The University of Kansas; Lawrence native Emily Lemmon and her husband, Alan...

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• Dr. Ray Baughman Elected to National Academy of Engineering

  - 2008-02-08

  To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: Jenni Huffenberger, +1-972-883-4431, jennib@utdallas.edu or Meredith Dickenson, +1-972-883-2155, meredith.dickenson@utdallas.edu, both of the of University of Texas at Dallas UT Dallas Professor Hits the Big Time with Small Science RICHARDSON, Texas, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Ray Baughman, one of the most talented and pioneering nanotechnologists...

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• The 2006-2007 ASME fellows ...(Memis Acar-Mark A. Kedzierski)

  - 2007-11-01

  Memis Acar [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Memis Acar has been a researcher and faculty member for 30 years. He has written over 120 journal and conference papers. He recieved over two million dollars in grant money from national and international sources. Acar has...

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• Christine Ann Dollaghan.(NAMED)(appointed at Callier Center for Communication Disorders at The University of Texas at Dallas)(Brief article)

  - 2006-11-07

  Christine Ann Dollaghan, formerly a professor in the Department of Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh, has joined the Callier Center for Communication Disorders at The University of Texas at Dallas UTD. A professor in the UTD School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences,...

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• DAVID RABBAN APPOINTED COMMITTEE A CHAIR

  - 2006-11-01

  David M. Rabban, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Law, has been appointed chair of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Rabban has been with the AAUP in one capacity or another for thirty years; in 1976, he joined the Association's staff...

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• DR. G. Pritchy Smith

  - 2006-05-04

  DR. G. PRITCHY SMITH has joined the faculty at Seattle University as the William Allen Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of Education. He earned a bachelor's from the University of Texas at Austin, and a master's and doctorate from the University of North Texas.

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• Executive Council Election Information 2006-2008 VOTE

  - 2006-04-01

  By virtue of offices already held, Dr. John D. Light will hold the office of Past President and Dr. Karen Nicholson will hold the office of President for the 2006-2008 Biennium. President-Elect Pamela Kramer (Ed.D. in Elementary Education, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) Professor of Education, Department of Early Childhood &...

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• More Than 70 Leading Journalists Urge Newspaper Associationto Acknowledge Failure to Aid Journalists Fleeing Hitler (1/2)

  - 2006-02-20

  PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As reported in today's New York Times, more than seventy leading journalists and journalism professors see below have signed a letter urging the Newspaper Association of America to acknowledge the failure of American journalists to aid German Jewish refugee journalists who were trying to...

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• Member Loo Wins First O'Donnell Award for Cutting-Edge Research

  - 2006-02-01

  Member Lynn Loo, assistant professor in chemical engineering and a General Dynamics Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, received the first annual Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award, recognizing cutting-edge research in Texas. Sponsored by the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas TAMEST...

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