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Becky Visosky, J.D., executive director of the Catholic Pro-Life Community, will speak at Austin College on Tuesday, October 8, at 11 a.m. in Hoxie Thompson Auditorium of Sherman Hall. Hosted by the College’s Catholic Student Association, she will present a lecture entitled, “The Great Sacrifice: An overview of what the […]

Focus on Children’s Literature Dr. Hunt Tooley Austin College professor of history, will discuss “From Mametz Wood to 100 Aker Wood: Trenches, Trauma, and the Great War Legacy of Children’s Literature” on October 2 at 5 p.m. in Mabee Hall of Wright Campus Center. A 4:30 p.m. reception, also in […]

A carefully designed but ancient feature of Austin College’s IDEA Center will be “in action” Monday, September 23, as the precise arrival of the Fall Equinox is marked. The IDEA Center itself serves as a large astronomical observatory that displays the movement of the Sun through the gnomon hole in […]

Austin College’s Cunningham Lectures/Marsupial Mindfulness series continues Tuesday, September 24, at 11:15 a.m. in Wright Campus Center, Room 231, with a presentation by Dr. Stephanie Waitt entitled “Healing Self-Doubt and Body Discomfort.” The session is free and open to the public. Attendees may bring their lunch to the session. Waitt, a […]

Austin College’s free ’Roo Bound program for area children in kindergarten through 5th grade continues for Fall Term 2019 Fall beginning this Saturday, September 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. This month’s session is “Hop Around the World.” Austin College members of the Indian Cultural Association and Asian Students […]

“Reflections on Immigration: Of Dreamers, the Detained, and the Disappeared” will be the theme of an upcoming symposium of Austin College’s Center for Southwestern and Mexican Studies. Dr. Julie Hempel, Austin College associate professor of Spanish and director of the center, organized the symposium. The lectures, held September 17 through […]

Austin College President Steven O’Day accepted a 2019 Global Citizen Award from the Happy World Foundation of Dallas on behalf of Austin College at the foundation’s Global Citizen Awards Gala September 7. The award recognizes Austin College’s “support and expansion of language programs and encouragement of students to take advantage […]

God of all people and all nations, Today we come before you in prayer to remember all the people— from all over the world— who lost their lives in the tragic events of September 11, 2001. We pray that you will bring comfort to their loved ones on this difficult […]

Austin College junior Vero Tessier will be the featured speaker at the College’s Environmental Studies Lunch Talk at noon on Tuesday, September 10, in Wright Campus Center, Room 231. She will discuss her summer 2019 internship at Little Traverse Conservancy in Harbor Springs, Michigan. The session is free and open […]

The Austin College Cunningham Lectures will offer a series of interactive sessions throughout the 2019-2020 academic year. Themed around “Contemplative Mindfulness,” the sessions, are designed to expose the community to the emerging field of contemplative studies in higher education, according to organizer Dr. Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan, Austin College professor of religious […]

Austin College will host the fourth annual TEDxAustinCollege on Saturday, September 28, in an event that will feature short (up to 15 minutes) talks by six members of the Austin College community. The event will take place in Wright Campus Center, with Main Stage talks in Mabee Hall. Tickets are […]