Austin College’s Saritha Bangara to Offer Keynote Address Austin College students and faculty have the opportunity to interact with medical students and health professionals in Mexico during the Fifth International Conference on Health Sciences Research, “COVID-19 Research: Challenges and Progress,” presented virtually October 28-30, 2020. Saritha Bangara, Ph.D., Austin College assistant professor of public health… [Read More]

The fifth annual TEDxAustinCollege will be held Saturday, October 3, beginning at 9 a.m., offering community and campus members an opportunity to share ideas. Millions of viewers worldwide have seen videos of the annual TED Conferences, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers have spoken for 18 minutes on a diverse mix of “ideas worth… [Read More]

Crimson and gold are Austin College’s official colors, but green runs deep, too Environment Texas has again recognized Austin College for its commitment to renewable energy. The group recently released a report that lists Austin College as one of more than 40 colleges and universities around the country that have achieved 100% renewable energy use for its electrical… [Read More]

The Austin College community is saddened by the death of longtime Austin College senior trustee Louis H. Zbinden Jr. on September 11, 2020. The Presbyterian leader served on the active board and the College Relations and Church Relations committee from 1973 to 1985, and remained a member of the senior board until his death. A… [Read More]

Dr. Kevin Gannon, professor of history and director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, will present Austin College’s A.J. Carlson Lecture via Zoom on September 10 at 5 p.m. His lecture is “Hope Among the Hopeless: The Fierce Urgency of the Liberal Arts in a Time of Crisis.”… [Read More]

Dr. Elena Olivé, Austin College associate professor of Spanish, is one of 10 recipients around the world of the “Josep Maria Batista i Roca – Memorial Enric Garriga Trullols” Award from the Institut de Projecció Exterior de la Cultura Catalana (The Institute of Foreign Projection of Catalan Culture]. The prize has been awarded for 32 consecutive years… [Read More]

Dr. Greg Kinzer, Austin College professor of English, has been appointed Dean of Humanities. He began his duties for the role on August 1. The three divisions of Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences each have a dean appointed for a six-year term by the president upon advice from the vice president for Academic Affairs, who… [Read More]

Austin College President Steven O’Day has announced that Gillian Grissom Locke is the College’s new vice president for Institutional Advancement. She had held the role of interim vice president for several months and had worked since 2016 as associate vice president for Institutional Advancement and executive director of leadership gifts. “Gillian’s experiences at Austin College… [Read More]

A recent staffing restructure at Austin College has created a new Marketing and Communications team led by Dr. Lynn Z. Womble of Sherman as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of the College. The restructuring combines the Office of Public Affairs, part of the President’s Office, and Advancement Communications, an arm of Institutional Advancement, to create… [Read More]