The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved a Coordinated Program in Dietetics at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) that will allow students to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and a subsequent Master of Dietetic Studies. The program will make students eligible to sit for…
Ricardo Romo, president of The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), received the prestigious 2013 Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education from the University of California, Berkeley, on March 14 at the Berkeley campus. The award was created in 1968 as a tribute to the leadership…
The UTSA Department of Music presents Winterlude a four-day concert series which features choral and instrumental student ensembles performing holiday favorites. Selections will range from the traditional to the contemporary; the sacred to the secular, all intent on creating musical merriment. Kicking off the 2012 edition of Winterlude on Thursday,…
At the 13th annual UTSA Alumni Gala, Loretta Clarke ’87, Wayne Terry ’85 and Jeanie Wyatt ’86 will be honored with Alumnus of the Year awards. Additionally, Doyle N. Beneby, Roger Hemminghaus and Steven Q. Lee will receive Distinguished Service awards. The UTSA Alumni Association will host the gala at…
The University of Texas at San Antonio will host its fourth annual Texas Higher Education Symposium August 2-3 at the UTSA Main Campus. This year’s event, “Inclusion in Higher Education: Where we are, where we need to be,” will feature presentations and discussions on a broad range of topics in…
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced today that four scholars have been selected to receive 2012-2013 Fulbright grants. UTSA faculty members John Alexander, Wing Chung Ng and Kimberly Cuero and recent UTSA graduate student Aaron Carter-Cohn ’11 will each be furthering their areas of research internationally during…
In collaboration with scholars at the University of Hawaii at Honolulu and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, researchers from The University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Biology have demonstrated in the laboratory for the first time that primary epigenetic mutations are corrected in the germ (sperm…
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced today that it has topped $100 million in private gifts just halfway into its inaugural capital campaign: We Are UTSA – A Top-Tier Campaign. UTSA aims to raise $120 million by 2015 to support its aspiration to become a Tier One…
The UTSA Small Business Development Center is now accepting applications for the Building Business Excellence program, a unique business leadership program designed to propel established small to mid-size firms to new heights. The two-week program takes place on weekdays, 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Sept. 17-28, 2012, at the UTSA Downtown Campus.…
Kelly Nash, assistant professor in the UTSA Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Dr. Benjamin Furman, a research engineering in Southwest Research Institute’s Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division, have been selected to receive $200,000 in seed funding for their collaborative research proposal, “Photoresponsive Polymeric Composites Utilizing UV-Light Harvesting from Upconverting…
UTSA Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Heather Shipley has been awarded the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) New Faculty in Teaching Award. The award was established by the ASCE’s Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) project and the ASCE’s Committee on Faculty Development to recognize and reward…
Eva Domiguez’s outgoing fourth grade class can tell you all about biomes and tree rings. They can even tell you what sustainability is and why it’s important. The Lackland City Elementary class participated in a yearlong series of science lessons, brought to their classroom by UTSA undergraduates and graduate students…