Sneed Prairie Restoration Project Is Texas Environmental Excellence Award Finalist More than 11,000 Grayson County area elementary students have participated in free field trips to Austin College’s Clinton and Edith Sneed Environmental Research Area to witness the Prairie Restoration Project that hundreds of Austin College students and faculty have been involved in since 1996. The… [Read More]
Platizky Retires After Three Decades
Austin College Professor of English Dr. Roger Platizky has retired after 30 years at Austin College. He was granted professor emeritus status in May. During his career at the College, he taught a variety of English literature courses as well as several cross-disciplinary topics. His teaching specialties include Victorian poetry, especially Tennyson and Eliot, and… [Read More]
Public Health in Action
Austin College’s Akuoko Teams with CDC and UNTHSC Researchers Working Toward Elimination of Tuberculosis Tuberculosis is one of the world’s deadliest diseases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The center’s data shows that in 2017, 10 million people were infected with TB and 1.3 million died of TB-related disease. In the U.S.,… [Read More]
College Announces 2019 Athena Award Recipients
Austin College celebrated women in leadership earlier this month at the annual ATHENA Award luncheon, which honors exceptional accomplishment and leadership in women. Award nominees for the local award must work and live in Grayson, Fannin, or Cooke counties. ATHENA LEADERSHIP AWARD Sandy Barber of Bonham, executive director of Fannin County Children’s Center, received the… [Read More]
Austin College Class of 2019 Steps into the Future
Saturday’s storms were all but forgotten Sunday morning as Austin College’s Clyde Hall Graduation Court filled with parents, grandparents, friends, and other family members in anticipation of the procession of the Class of 2019 and the start of Commencement exercises. The booming thunder of Saturday gave way to the call of the bagpipes that traditionally… [Read More]
Class of 2019 Graduates Anticipate Celebration
Austin College seniors and their families are counting the days until graduation weekend, culminating with Commencement exercises for more than 270 Bachelor of Arts degree candidates in the Class of 2019 and 19 Master of Arts in Teaching degree candidates. The ceremony is Sunday, May 19, at 8:30 a.m. on the Clyde L. Hall Graduation… [Read More]
Athletics Honors Convocation Celebrated
2019 Athena Award Finalists Announced
Austin College will welcome Ann Ross ’66, Austin College senior trustee and a descendant of early Texas matriarch Emily Austin, to the annual ATHENA Award luncheon May 2, at noon in Mabee Hall of Wright Campus Center. Interested individuals may register for the luncheon by April 29 at a cost of $25 per person. See… [Read More]
On the Road for Research
Student researchers travel with faculty every semester to academic and association conferences around the state, and many Austin College students and faculty have been on the road recently. Texas Genetics Society Dr. David Aiello, associate professor of biology, attended the Texas Genetics Society annual meeting at Texas A&M University with eight of his students: Aarthi… [Read More]
Student Recitals Continue Sunday
Salina Duclos will perform a Senior Vocal Recital, Sunday, April 28, at 4 p.m. in Wynne Chapel. The events are free and open to the public. Her program will include numbers by classics composers Bellini, Puccini, Barber, and Mozart, as well as “Too Many Mornings” from Follies by Sondheim and “Someone Like You” from Jekyll and Hyde by Bricusse.A… [Read More]
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