Every year, the Austin College faculty recognizes divisional colleagues for excellence in areas of scholarship, teaching, and service. This year, each division added a fourth award, and could offer two awards in one area or create a new area of recognition. Faculty members from each division select the annual awardees. Winners from the previous year… [Read More]

Nearly $13 million gift is Austin College’s largest A gift of nearly $13 million from the estate of William Windsor Richardson of Sherman has provided endowment funds for four new faculty chairs and their related programs at Austin College. Richardson died in 2017, and when his substantial estate was settled recently, the College received more… [Read More]

Four faculty chairs established in spring 2020 correspond to recently developed academic programs at Austin College. The chairs and programs were endowed through a recent estate gift of William Windsor Richardson ’69 of Sherman. Students in the Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences benefit from the programs that encourage students to identify connections across disciplines and… [Read More]

Duffey Receives Excellence in Teaching Award Dr. Patrick Duffey, professor of Spanish, says teaching has always been the most important part of being a faculty member for him. Honoring his diligence and commitment, this spring he received the 2020 Excellence in Teaching and Campus Leadership Award. Duffey teaches, he said, because he never likes to… [Read More]

Austin College senior Seth Howard finished his final semester of undergraduate classes in early May. He had taken final tests, turned in papers, completed projects, and defended an honors thesis. In times other than 2020, he would already have crossed the Commencement stage to receive his diploma, having completed majors in business finance and economics.… [Read More]

The Austin College coaches and team members have announced honors for more than 50 student-athletes with its annual end of the year awards, recognizing many of the standout members of the athletics department’s 18 varsity programs. The 2019-20 athletics year was an historic one for Austin College. The department saw records fall in a number… [Read More]

Austin College’s top honors for campus leadership and involvement during the 2019-2020 academic year were announced this week. The annual Student Affairs Leadership Awards highlight the contributions to the campus community of a wide variety of individuals, organizations, and programs. Top honors went to Outstanding Senior Woman Katie Siebert of Medina, Texas, and Outstanding Senior… [Read More]

Senior Ashley Mayorga of West Corvina, California, was named Outstanding Greek Woman. An active member and leader of Kappa Gamma Chi sorority, she also has served the Greek community by leading the Greek Review Board. She also is a member of Greek Council, having served as vice president. She also has been a member of… [Read More]

For more than 40 years, Dr. Victoria Hennessey Cummins shared her lifelong love of history, specifically Latin American history, with Austin College students. She embraced the liberal arts community, and small classes allowed meaningful interaction with students and colleagues. “I had the luxury of having picked a job that lets me concentrate on the thing… [Read More]

Earlier this month, orchestras around the world were scheduled to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with special concerts. May—May 7 in particular—was significant as the date that Beethoven’s  famous Symphony No. 9 premiered in 1824 in Vienna. When the global pandemic led to postponement of those celebrations, Dr. Richard Zielinski, artistic director and… [Read More]