The Homer P. Rainey Award, the Board of Trustees’ highest recognition of faculty or staff for outstanding service, was a shared honor in 2015, with awards presented to Karen Spore, administrative assistant to the vice president for Student Affairs since 1993, and to Carol Daeley, The Henry L. and Laura H. Shoap Professor of English,… [Read More]

Eleven faculty members were installed in endowed faculty chairs or professorships during Honors Convocation in April, effective beginning the 2015-2016 academic year. Nathan Simons Bigelow the Shelton L. Williams Professorship of Comparative and International Politics Kerry Gail Brock the Ray C. Fish Professorship in Mathematics Robert Wayne Cape Jr. the Chase Professorship of Classical Languages… [Read More]

Outstanding Senior Man Omar Husayni, who completed an international relations major and leadership studies minor, is working for Apple but within the next year will apply for Officer Candidate School for the U.S. Army. He hopes eventually to work with national defense and security, possibly with the State Department or similar group. Altrusa Outstanding Senior… [Read More]

Faculty Retirements Three longtime faculty members who have had significant influence in the educational climate of Austin College were granted professor emerita status in May as they retired from teaching. “I couldn’t begin to take the time to tell you about their professional accomplishments or their contributions to Austin College,” Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres,… [Read More]

15 Years, 31 Fulbright Awards Since 2000, Austin College students have been awarded 31 Fulbright grants for assignments around the globe. That number includes three English Teaching Assistantship awards for 2015-2016, presented to Christopher Burke ’15 in Germany; Brittnay Connor ’14 in Colombia; and Sameen Wajid ’13 in Malaysia. Christopher Burke ’15 developed a love… [Read More]

Austin College students, faculty, and staff recognized STOP Day during the spring term, with the message “Starting Today, Others Pay.” Members of the student ambassador program STAT (Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow) handed out business-card-sized messages that explained that students’ tuition dollars paid for their Austin College education only through the 11th day of Spring Term… [Read More]

Victoria Hughes, Austin College associate director of alumni communications in the Institutional Advancement Division, received the CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) Southwest District IV Rising Star Award at the district conference in Austin this spring. The Rising Star Award recognizes the accomplishments of advancement professionals in the field for five years… [Read More]

The third annual Austin College Student Scholarship Conference this February included the academic work of nearly 200 students. Sponsored by the Robert and Joyce Johnson Center for Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching, the conference brought together “in the spirit of the liberal arts, the intellectual stimulation of academic pursuit with the thrill of creative… [Read More]

Interested in investment but need some help figuring it all out?An app is in the works for that. Through the Austin College Entrepreneur Pitch Competition, 2015 graduates Mitchell Camp, Joshua Stowers, and David Smith, pictured left to right, have co-founded the company Wall Street Ninja, providing a web-based stock simulator and financial education tool for… [Read More]

Sharing U.S. language and culture and soaking up the history and norms of other countries are the main responsibilities of several students over the next months, thanks to international scholarships and awards. The awards went to students in the East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC) program, plus one in the French Department. Highly competitive Boren… [Read More]