The University of Texas Libraries, in collaboration with the Senate of College Councils and the Natural Sciences Council, has announced its selection of three distinguished educators as Affordable Education Champions for the year 2024. The honored faculty are Dr. Michael Aubrey, Dr. Jose Alvarado, and Dr. Emily Que.
The University of Texas Libraries and the Center for Skills and Experience Flags in the Undergraduate College celebrated the 2023 Undergraduate Writing and Research Awards on April 4, 2024.
The event was co-hosted by Dr. Lorraine Haricombe, Vice Provost and Director of the UT Libraries, and Dr. Richard Reddick, Dean of the Undergraduate College, with honors presented to the recipients of the UT Libraries' Signature Course Information Literacy Award and the Center for Skills and Experience Flags' Writing Flag Awards.
Texas Digital Library announces Dr. Patricia Hswe as the opening keynote speaker at the 2024 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries.
Dr. Hswe is the Program Director for Public Knowledge at the Mellon Foundation. In this role, she leads the program’s work on a range of grants and initiatives supporting libraries, archives, museums, universities, presses, and other institutions that further the world’s collective knowledge of the humanities.
Photo by Ian Wagemann.
AUSTIN, Texas —Nicaraguan writer and political figure Gioconda Belli will give a free public talk at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection to celebrate the library’s acquisition of her literary archive.
The Benson Rare Books Reading Room hosts a
student-curated exhibition, funded by an Archiving Black América–Black Diaspora Archive Acquisitions Grant.
The University of Texas Libraries announces awardees for the Open Education Fellows Program.
This year’s fellows are Professor Chikako H. Cooke (Asian Studies), Professor Midori Tanaka, (Asian Studies), Dr. Simon J. Brandl (Marine Science), Dr. Jordan Casey (Marine Science), Dr. Sarah Jey Whitehead (Spanish and Portuguese), and Dr. Melissa D Murphy (Spanish and Portuguese).
The University of Texas Libraries announced the faculty and student recipient of the 2023 Map & Geospatial Collections Explorer Fellowship at a GIS Day event on Wednesday, November 15.
