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“UTSA
in the News” is a synopsis of items that have appeared in periodicals
mentioning UTSA, its faculty, staff, students and programs. November 2001 Mayor Ed Garza will be the keynote
speaker at a luncheon to introduce the University of Texas at San Antonio's
newest deans. The luncheon hosted by UTSA and the San Antonio Technology
Accelerator Initiative will be Friday at noon at the Omni Hotel, 9821
Colonnade Blvd. Garza will discuss technology's role in San Antonio''s
new economy, local work force issues and how UTSA can contribute to
the city's economic development. The University of Texas System Board
of Regents cleared the way Thursday for a new science building at UTSA
that will be the largest on campus and one of the biggest classroom
facilities among the system's nine academic institutions. The $80 million
facility, which will include classrooms, labs, lecture halls and offices
for UTSA's biotechnology, science and engineering programs, will cover
nearly 228,000 square feet on a site immediately south of the existing
Engineering and Biosciences buildings. Mayor Ed Garza led a delegation of
city council members and staff to Washington D.C. to meet with senators
and congressmen, as well as representatives from the office of the vice
president, Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transportation.
Garza delivered a powerful message about San Antonio, "Not only
are we ready and able to carry on with business, we can make important
contributions to the national defense effort. The Center for Infrastructure
Assurance and Security at the University of Texas at San Antonio, for
example, will train much needed "cyber soldiers" to protect
our high-tech information infrastructure." Members of the venerable Frost banking
family gathered to announce a scholarship program and unveil a statue
of their patriarch. The family announced the funding of a scholarship
program at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a grant to the
San Antonio Education Partnership. The grants, which total $485,000,
will be used as an incentive to motivate math and science majors to
teach. That money will provide 20 scholarships a year for five years.
The program is slated to be in place for the 2002 semester. The big news from the UTSA School of
Architecture isn't that its professional degree program has earned accreditation,
or that a third master's degree program is in the works. Or that the
school is looking to create a study-abroad center in Italy, or that
the bulk of the architecture program is moving to the downtown campus.
The big news is the student drawings and models that show the place
bristling with talent. Evidence of spirited, inquisitive play with form,
structure and ideas crowded the walls and tables. Even some of the freshman
work was arresting. The University of Texas at San Antonio
has awarded the first two scholarships from a fund established in honor
of the late state Sen. Gregory Luna. UTSA freshman Jose Buso Jr. and
Albessa Vargas, graduates of Luna's alma mater, Lanier High School were
chosen as recipients for the Sen. Gregory Luna Memorial Endowed Scholarship.
Family, friends, former colleagues and constituents of the longtime
Texas legislator established the scholarship, with a portion earmarked
for Lanier High School graduates. (San Antonio
Express-News 11/26/01 8B) Comments or
questions to Kris Rodriguez
(krodriguez@utsa.edu)
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