SAN ANTONIO, June 4, 2013 – UTSA College of Public Policy alumnus Chris Anderson ’11 has been named a fellow in the nationally recognized City of San Antonio Management Fellows Program. Beginning July 3, he will sharpen his city management and administration skills with four-month stints in the offices of…
René M. Zenteno, the former undersecretary of Population, Migration and Religious Affairs at the Ministry of the Interior in Mexico, will join the UTSA College of Public Policy this fall to serve as a professor in the UTSA Department of Demography. His research and teaching interests include demography, inequality and…
Parents from the San Antonio area are invited to enroll their kindergarten through twelfth grade children in one or more weeklong summer camps that will be offered by the UTSA Interactive Technology Experience Center (iTEC). The camps will include morning, afternoon and all-day sessions at the UTSA Main Campus starting…
Soldiers’ Angels and The University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) have partnered to form the Soldiers’ Angels Entrepreneur Academy, a six-month business training program for veterans in San Antonio which lauches a new area of focus for Soldiers’ Angels called Project-360°. Operated out of the Soldiers’ Angels Support Center in…
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…
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…
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…