Last week’s Women’s Health Forum provided an opportunity for Spencer Dirk ’20 to share some experiences from her summer 2019 Global Outreach Fellowship. She traveled to Shirati, Tanzania, to work with the Maji Safi Group. In Swahili, Maji Safi means clean water. The organization helps thousands to learn safe water, sanitation, and hygiene practices, using… [Read More]

Austin College has hosted a Christmas Eve Worship Service in Wynne Chapel for decades for all Presbyterian congregations in the Sherman-Denison area. In 2020, a pre-recorded Christmas Eve service will be streamed on the Austin College Facebook page and YouTube page on Thursday, December 24, at 6 p.m. The service will include leadership and music… [Read More]

The Austin College Engineering Design Showcase 2020 will be held virtually and asynchronously December 4-7 through online conference software Symposium by ForagerOne. View the showcase presentations at any time December 4-7. Attendees will need to sign up with their austincollege.edu email address at the Symposium site.   Engineering physics students in the “Statics and Engineering… [Read More]

Junior Nicole DeLuna of San Antonio, Texas, has been elected student body president at Austin College, leading Student Assembly for a second year-long term beginning January 2021. She began her new role with the traditional lighting of the campus Christmas tree at the Service of Lessons and Carols, streamed December 3 on Facebook and YouTube.… [Read More]

Austin College hosts its annual Service of Lessons and Carols—virtually—on Thursday, December 3, at 7 p.m., streaming on Facebook and YouTube. View the Order of Service and Song Lyrics The event includes traditional Christmas hymns; scripture readings by students, faculty, and staff; and Christmas carols by the College’s A Cappella Choir, led by Dr. Wayne… [Read More]

Annual Women’s Health Forum and Research Showcase Dr. Hannah M. Cates will present “Using the Central Dogma to Study Addiction” as the keynote address of the seventh annual Austin College Women’s Health Forum and Student Research Showcase on Thursday, December 3 at 4:30 p.m. Her presentation will be open to the Austin College community via… [Read More]

Austin College Featured in The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges 2021 Edition Austin College has again been named one of the nation’s most environmentally responsible colleges by The Princeton Review, which included the College in its Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges: 2021 Edition. The latest version of the guidebook profiles 416 colleges. The Princeton Review chose the… [Read More]

Austin College junior Andrew J. Pak was awarded “best student presentation” for his research poster delivery at the international conference of the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, held October 28-30. His research in biology was “The interaction between SARS-CoV-2 and the ACE-2 Transmembrane Receptor, and a Proposal of the Use of a Pseudovirus as a… [Read More]

J’Lee Bumpus, Austin College associate professor of mathematics, will present “The Mathematics of Blockchain: Ensuring Data is Verifiable, Unchangeable, and Anonymous” on November 11 at 5 p.m. via Zoom. The lecture is part of the Bernice S. Melvin Sabbatical Series hosted by the College’s Robert and Joyce Johnson Center for Faculty Development and Excellence in… [Read More]

The Austin College Pre-Law Society will host “Colloquium on Civil Discourse and American Democracy: The Lawyer and American Public Life” on Thursday, November 12, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. via Zoom. Wyatt Hill, Class of 2021 and Pre-Law Society president, said all interested Austin College alumni and members of the College community are invited… [Read More]