- Larry Faulkner
Larry Faulkner was the twenty-seventh president of The University of Texas at Austin. Faulkner is, as of January 31, 2006, President of Houston Endowment, Inc. On June 30, 2005, he announced that he would step down from his post in the spring of 2006. In December 2005, William C. Powers was officially named his successor and took office in February 2006. On February 9, 2006, The University of Texas System Board of Regents named Faulkner president emeritus, … - Joe Jamail
Joseph D. Jamail, Jr (born October 19, 1925 in Houston, Texas) is a Lebanese American attorney and billionaire. One of the wealthiest lawyers in America, he is frequently referred to as the King of Torts. In 1985, Mr. Jamail represented Pennzoil in a lawsuit against Texaco. Pennzoil won the case and his contingency fee was $335 million. Mr. Jamail has given large donations to The University of Texas at Austin. - David Buss
David Buss (born April 14, 1953) is a professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, known for his evolutionary psychology research on human sex differences in mate selection. Born to Arnold Buss, a recently retired professor of psychology at The University of Texas, and Edith Buss, he earned his Ph.D. in psychology at University of California, Berkeley, in 1981. Before becoming a professor at The University of Texas, … - Edsger W. Dijkstra
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (May 11, 1930 - August 6, 2002); IPA:) was a Dutch computer scientist. He received the 1972 A. C. M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions in the area of programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until his death in 2002. - Norman Hackerman
Norman Hackerman was an American chemist, internationally known as an expert in metal corrosion, and a former president of both the University of Texas at Austin (1967 – 1970) and Rice University (1970 – 1985). Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the only son of Jacob and Ann Raffel Hackerman, immigrants from regions of the Russian Empire that later became Estonia and Latvia, respectively. - J. Tinsley Oden
J. Tinsley Oden (born December 25, 1936 in Alexandria, Louisiana) is the Associate Vice President for Research, the Director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, the Cockrell Family Regents' Chair in Engineering #2, the Peter O'Donnell Jr. Centennial Chair in Computer Systems, a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and a Professor of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. - Sarah Weddington
Sarah Ragle Weddington (born February 5, 1945 in Abilene, Texas) is a Texas attorney and lecturer who gained world-wide fame when she and Linda Coffee represented "Jane Roe" (real name Norma McCorvey) in the landmark "Roe v. Wade" case in the United States Supreme Court. - J Strother Moore
J Strother Moore is a computer scientist, and is co-developer of the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm and the Boyer-Moore automated theorem prover, Nqthm. A good example of the workings of the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm is given in his website along with the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm. In addition, he is a co-author of the ACL2 automated theorem prover. - Linda Schele
Linda Schele (30 October 1942 - 18 April, 1998) was a noted expert in the field of Maya epigraphy and iconography. Her assistance was invaluable in the decipherment of much of the Maya hieroglyphics. She produced a massive volume of drawings of stelae and inscriptions, which, following her wishes, are free for use to scholars. In 1978, she founded the annual "Maya Meetings" at The University of Texas at Austin. She died in 1998 of pancreatic cancer. - William C. Powers
William Charles Powers Jr. is the 28th president of The University of Texas at Austin, a position he has held since February 1, 2006. Powers was selected in November 2005 as the sole finalist for the position of president of the University of Texas at Austin. In December 2005, Powers was officially named the next president of the University and succeeded Larry Faulkner when he left office in February 2006. - Ian Hancock
Ian Hancock is a renowned linguist, Romani scholar, and human rights advocate. He was born and raised in England. He is director of the Program of Romani Studies and the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a professor of English, linguistics and Asian studies since 1972. He has represented the Romani people at the United Nations and served as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council under President Clinton, … - Yale Patt
Yale Nance Patt is an American professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. In 1965, Patt introduced the WOS module, the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon. He is a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery. - Tara Smith
Dr. Smith is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, where she currently holds the Anthem Foundation Fellowship. She is the author of Moral Rights & Political Freedom , Viable Values and Ayn Rand 's Normative Ethics-The Virtuous Egoist , as well as numerous articles. - Robert S. Boyer
Robert Stephen Boyer, also known as Bob Boyer, is a professor of computer science, mathematics, and philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. He and J Strother Moore invented the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm, a particularly efficient string searching algorithm, in 1977. He and Moore also collaborated on the Boyer-Moore automated theorem prover, Nqthm, in 1992. - Deloss Dodds
DeLoss Dodds is the current men's athletic director of The University of Texas at Austin. During his tenure, Texas has claimed 12 National Championships and 82 conference titles. Dodds is a graduate of Kansas State University, where he was also a conference champion in the quarter mile in 1959. Prior to taking his current position at Texas, he was the athletic director for the Kansas State Wildcats for five years, from 1977 to 1981. - Ellen Spiro
Ellen Spiro is an American documentary filmmaker. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Jerome Foundation Fellowship, The Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television’s Gracie Award for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Documentary, … - Paul Burka
Paul Burka joined the staff of TEXAS MONTHLY one year after the magazine's founding. A lifelong Texan, he was born in Galveston, graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in history, and received a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. Burka is a member of the State Bar of Texas and spent five years as an attorney with the Texas Legislature, where he served as counsel to the Senate Natural Resources Committee. - Rex Tillerson
Rex W. Tillerson (born March 23, 1952 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of ExxonMobil Corporation, as of January 1, 2006. After earning a B.S. from The University of Texas at Austin in civil engineering, Tillerson joined Exxon Company, U.S.A in 1975 as an engineer. He held various positions with Exxon, domestically and internationally. In 1995, he became president of Exxon Yemen Inc. and Esso Exploration and Production Khorat Inc. - Jonathan Sessler
Jonathan Sessler (born 20 May 1956, Urbana, Illinois) is a professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin. He is notable for his pioneering work on expanded porphyrins and their applications to biology and medicine. He is a co-founder of Pharmacyclics, Inc., a company that works with expanded porphyrins, and Anionics, Inc., which develops anion recognition chemistry. - Augie Garrido
Augie Garrido (born February 6 1939) is a coach in NCAA Division I college baseball. As of the end of the 2006 season, Garrido has compiled a record of 1,542 wins, 717 losses, and 8 ties over 37 seasons of collegiate coaching (.682). No other coach in the division has recorded as many wins. Garrido is currently the coach of the Longhorns of The University of Texas at Austin, … - Michael Ray Charles
Michael Ray Charles (1967-) is an African American painter born in Lafayette, Louisiana. He spent most of his youth growing up in Los Angeles, CA. New Orleans, La. and St. Martinville, La. He graduated from St. Martinville Senior High School 1985. Later that fall he entered McNeese State University, Lake Charles, La. Over the next three and one half years Charles studied design and advertising before receiving a BFA degree in 1989. - Eli Wallach
Eli Herschel Wallach (born December 7, 1915) is an American film, TV and stage actor. - Lawrence Sager
Lawrence Sager is dean of the The University of Texas School of Law at The University of Texas at Austin, holds the Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair, and is one of the nation's preeminent constitutional theorists and scholars. Sager, who joined the Law School faculty in 2002, is the 13th dean in the Law School's 123-year history. A graduate of Columbia Law School and Pomona College, Sager taught for more than 25 years at New York University School of Law, … - David Heymann
David Heymann is an American architect who was commissioned by President George W. Bush to design a custom, environmentally friendly house for the Bush ranch near Crawford, Texas. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from The Cooper Union in 1984. After receiving his B.Arch., he worked for Tod Williams and Associates, and I.M. Pei and Partners. He received his Masters of Architecture Degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 1988. - Bruce McGill
Bruce Travis McGill (born on July 11, 1950 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American actor. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in drama. He graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School in the Northeastern part of San Antonio. He has starred in many films, perhaps his most well-known role being "D-Day" in the 1978 comedy classic "National Lampoon's Animal House", a role McGill was desperate to take at the time, … - Mark L. Knapp
Mark L. Knapp is a Professor of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin, internationally known for his work in nonverbal communication, particularly the Relationship Escalation Model that he developed which bares his name. Knapp received a Ph.D. in Communication from Pennsylvania State University in 1966. Having formerly taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Purdue University, and the State University of New York, Dr. - John B. Goodenough
John Bannister Goodenough is an American professor and prominent solid-state physicist. He is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is widely credited for the identification and development of the Li-ion rechargeable battery as well as for developing the Goodenough-Kanamori rules for determining the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials. - James M. Lindsay
James M. Lindsay (born November 29, 1959, Winchester, Massachusetts), is a leading authority on the American foreign policymaking process and the domestic politics of American foreign policy. He is currently the director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and is the inaugural Tom Slick Chair for International Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. - Clifford Antone
Clifford Antone (October 27, 1949 in Port Arthur, Texas-May 23, 2006 in Austin, Texas) was the founder of a well-known Austin blues club, record label, and a mentor to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan and numerous other musicians. Antone moved to Austin in 1968 and attended The University of Texas at Austin. An arrest for marijuana led to his dropping out of school. Nurturing a passion for Chicago blues, Antone started a blues club at age 25. The namesake club, … - Roberto Orci
Roberto Orci is a film and television producer and screenwriter. Roberto Orci was born in Mexico City, and raised in Canada, Texas, and Los Angeles where he met his longtime friend and collaborator Alex Kurtzman. He attended The University of Texas at Austin. - William H. Jefferys
William H. (Bill) Jefferys (born 1940) is an American astronomer and a professor emeritus of astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin. He specialized in astrometry, celestial mechanics and astrophysics, including the kinematics and dynamics of astronomical bodies. He has also worked in the field of Bayesian statistics, particularly with astronomical applications. Jefferys was the Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry Science Team leader, … - Chris Mack
Chris Mack is an expert in photolithography. He received multiple undergraduate degrees from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1982, a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1989, and a PhD in chemical engineering from The University of Texas in 1998. He became acquainted with lithography while working at the NSA. - Jeb Bush Jr.
John Ellis "Jebby" Bush, Jr. (born December 13, 1983) is the younger son of Jeb Bush, governor of Florida, and Columba Bush, his mother of Mexican origin. Born and raised in metro Miami, Florida, Jeb Jr. attended The Bolles School, a private boarding and day school in Jacksonville and he attended The University of Texas at Austin. His older siblings are George P. Bush and Noelle Bush. Jeb Jr. has received media attention on two occasions: in 2000, at age 16, … - Keith Moreland
Bobby Keith Moreland (born May 2, 1954 in Dallas, Texas) is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and San Diego Padres. In 1989, the final year of his career, he played for the Detroit Tigers, then the Baltimore Orioles. Moreland graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, and was drafted by the Phillies in the seventh round of the 1975 draft. - Mack White
"Mack White" (born December 20, 1952 in Mineral Wells, Texas) is a comic book artist, writer, radio personality, and parapolitical researcher who lives in Austin, Texas. White grew up in North Texas where his father published weekly newspapers in small towns in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, primarily Mansfield and Cleburne. As a teenager in Cleburne, he worked for his father's newspaper as a typesetter, proofreader, copy editor, and writer. - Pat Evans
Patricia Evans is the current mayor of Plano, Texas. She was first elected in May 2002 and was reelected to another two year term in May 2004. On May 13, 2006, Evans clinched a third term with 57.4% of the vote. Her new term will last three years. This makes her the longest-serving mayor since Jack Harvard. Although mayors in Plano generally run without party identification, … - Greg Swindell
Forest Gregory Swindell (born January 2 1965 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who had a 17-year career from 1986 to 2002. He played for the Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox of the American League and the Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros and Arizona Diamondbacks of the National League. Swindell graduated from Sharpstown High School in 1983. - Zulfikar Ghose
Zulfikar Ghose (b. March 13, 1935, Sialkot, India (now Pakistan) is a Pakistani American English language writer. He was born in 1935 in Pakistan and moved to Bombay in 1942. After the partition of British India into Pakistan and the present India, he migrated to England teaching at Ealing Mead School and then to the United States in 1969. He lives in Texas and teaches at The University of Texas at Austin. Mr. - Cliff Gustafson
Cliff Gustafson is a former Texas high school & college baseball coach who was, for twenty-nine seasons, the head coach of The University of Texas at Austin Longhorn baseball team. During this time he became the most successful head coach in NCAA Division I baseball history, a record relinquished in 2005 to his successor as UT baseball head coach, Augie Garrido. Gustafson, born February 17, 1931, is a native of Kenedy, Texas. - Peter Tyrrell Flawn
Peter T. Flawn retired as President of The University of Texas at Austin in 1985 and was named President Emeritus by the Board of Regents. He received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in 1947 and Ph.D. in geology from Yale University in 1951 and is prominent as a geologist, educator, author, and consultant. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Dr.
|
| |