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for collaboration and the advancement of his research afforded by the fellowship. His research is dedicated to providing doctors new tools for earlier identification and treatment of cardiovascular disease using combined ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging for detecting and treating atherosclerotic plaques. “A DONATION IS NOT JUST A
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FINANCIAL GIFT, BUT IT IS AN INSPIRATION TO ME TO SELFLESSLY SERVE OTHERS IN RETURN” -Jimmy Su, Powers Fellow, 2010-2011
Meeting the Great and Small Challenges of our Time
He says, “By obtaining [this] funding, my lab was able to allocate
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was also able to participate in a business plan venture this past
additional funds towards further research collaborations. During this past year, we were able to conduct our first in-vivo animal experiments down at UT Health Science Center in Houston. I year involving the Office of Technology Commercialization, and
In the fall of 2009, a new fellowship program was created in the Graduate
other students in engineering and business here at UT.”
School to support the recruitment and retention of ambitious and successful graduate scholars. The William C. Powers, Jr. Graduate Fellowship program
The Time is Now
“HAVING THIS SUPPORT FROM THE
In a recent speech, President Powers said, “the public
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research university of the future must solve global
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problems, expand knowledge, and improve lives through society.” Graduate programs and our students are critical to
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ensuring that we embody that future and that UT Austin is
-Simeon Floyd, Powers Fellow, 2009-2010
the premier public research university in the country.
A privately funded challenge grant of $250,000 has been provided to the
As 1910 Society members, you are the most loyal
Graduate School to expand this important program. Partnering with the
supporters of graduate education at UT Austin and I am
original donor, Dr. Steven Ungerleider, the goal is to raise an additional
grateful for your past contributions.
$250,000 by June 1, 2012. The fellowships will be used to support the strategic academic priorities outlined by the President and the Academic Deans. The focus will be on recruiting the best students to UT Austin and providing dissertation support to students in their final year.
I invite all members and friends of the 1910 Society to accept the challenge available through the Powers Fellowship Challenge Grant with a gift today. Every gift will be matched - up to $250,000 - and your support will be
The Powers Graduate Fellowships are among the most prestigious
dedicated to the recruitment and retention of outstanding
fellowships awarded by the Graduate School, providing a financial package
graduate students. Help us reach our goal of $500,000 by
totaling $36,000 over a nine month period. Students who receive one of
June 1, 2012.
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NEWS Recent Awards ABHIJAT JOSHI: Alumni Award Joshi, an alumnus of the Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin and Bollywood’s hottest
2011 Outstanding Graduate Advisor CONGRATULATIONS 1910 SOCIETY MEMBER PETER WARD
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INCE OPENING ITS DOORS IN 1970, THE LBJ SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS has built its’ national reputation by emphasizing both the theoretical and practical skills needed by government policy advisors and practitioners. Initially offering only
a masters degree, the Ph.D. program was introduced in 1992 and underwent a significant re-view in 2008. At that time, Peter Ward, C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations and Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology, was asked to assume the responsibilities of Graduate Adviser for the program.
screenwriter, is the Graduate School’s
Excited by the challenge of revitalizing the doctoral
Outstanding Graduate Alumnus for 2011.
program, Ward has done a fantastic job by all accounts.
Read http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/awards/
And as a result, he was awarded the 2011 Outstanding
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Graduate Adviser award from the Graduate School. The honor left him both surprised and touched.
MILLI REDDY: Granof Award
“The reason why I was so delighted to receive it was
Millidhashni Reddy, a
on [the students’] behalf. It really was an affirmation of
College of Pharmacy doctoral candidate, won the $10,000 Michael H. Granof Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Reddy, a Fulbright scholar, is completing her dissertation, which assesses the cost of care and health outcomes in patients with HIV and drugresistant tuberculosis in South Africa. Read http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/awards/news/ student-winners2011.html
everything that they had been working towards over the Photo by Marsha Miller, UT Austin
last two years…This was just a great thing for them and
for those of my colleagues who have been especially supportive along the way.“ It was the Ph.D. students who championed Ward’s nomination for the award. They stated, “The impacts of Peter’s embracing of the leadership role were tangible and visible immediately. His care and attention have changed the morale and demeanor of the students in the program. Doctoral students now feel valued by the school, supported in our efforts to achieve academic endeavors, and able to accomplish the expectations the university has for us.” As graduate adviser, Ward has worked to strengthen multiple areas of the program. He has sought to foster a strong sense of community among the various
“HE IS, IN SHORT, THE MODEL OF WHAT A
cohorts principally through a revitalized weekly
FACULTY ADVISER AND
In Memoriam
lunchtime colloquium where LBJ School faculty
MENTOR OUGHT TO BE”
LAUREN JEAN EDWARDS BEHR
accolades are delivered, and top faculty from across
and students present their research, kudos and
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campus share policy aspects and research methods
is deeply saddened
from their own disciplines. He has created an area of
by the passing of Lauren Edwards, our
-Robert Hutchings, Dean, LBJ School of Public Affairs
offices and carrels exclusively for the students – which they affectionately refer to as “Ph.D. Alley”.
Communications
Ward’s other efforts have included stronger individual relationships with each Ph.D. student
Graduate Research
and being a staunch advocate for the resources and skills needed by the students to achieve
Assistant from Fall, 2008 – December, 2010. Lauren contributed her writing talents to our Web site, blog and 100 year anniversary book. She lost her battle with cancer in April, 2011 and will be greatly missed. Read the full GradNews blog post about Lauren: http://blogs.utexas.edu/ gradnews/2011/04/25/in-memoriam-laurenedwards-behr/ Joshi’s photo by Chris Parker. Photo courtesy of Milli Reddy. Edward’s photo by Lynn Margason.
their goals. By finding ways to use existing resources from the LBJ School and the Graduate School and by engaging more faculty and the School’s research centers, Ward has secured opportunities for Ph.D. students to work as teaching and research assistants, provided more competitive fellowship packages and funded travel to conferences. Ward finds academic research an important addition to the practical training needed for policy development in government and uses his own work in low-income self-help housing in Latin America and in what he calls “informal homestead subdivisions” here in Texas to help train the students. For more information about Dr. Ward, please visit http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/directory/faculty/peter-ward
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THANK YOU 1910 Society Member Spotlight: Dr. David Braddock
W
HEN DR. DAVID BRADDOCK GRAD-
Department of Disability and Human Development
uated from The University of Texas at
there. In 1999, he received the prestigious University
Austin in 1973 with his Ph.D. jointly in Scholar Award from U of I President James Stukel.
Special Education and Educational Administration, he was armed with three University of Texas degrees. He had received his B.A. in 1967 and his M.A. in 1970,
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both in Government.
Turner Endowed Chair and Professor in Psychiatry and campus Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities.
uate work at UT in seven
The CU Board of Regents recently honored him with
different academic depart-
one of the University’s highest honors, the 2011
ments,
I
Thomas Jefferson Award.
sense
of
strong
attachment
to
the UT Graduate School, which embraces all these disciplines,” said Braddock. For this reason, Dr. Braddock joined the 1910 Society.
He insists that high-quality graduate education at UT must continue to be strengthened. “The University of Texas at Austin is the single most important asset for the future of the State of Texas and for its rapidly growing population. But Texas is dramatically underfunding UT’s Graduate School. This is done at great per-
Braddock transformed his unique academic experiences il for this generation of Texans, for future generations of into a life of working for greater opportunity for people Texans, and for America’s competitiveness in general with disabilities in our society. He was strongly because UT is one of America’s national treasures.” influenced by faculty such as Emmette Redford and Wilfred Webb in the Government Department, as well as Jasper Harvey and Laurence Haskew in the College of Education, who both served on his dissertation committee. Time spent working at the Austin State School
“EMBRACE UT PASSIONATELY AND ALL THAT IT HAS TO OFFER ACADEMICALLY AND IN RESEARCH, BUT ALSO ENGAGE EARLY AND
acquainted him with people with cognitive disabilities
OFTEN IN YOUR TRAINING WITH
who endured extremely oppressive conditions on a
THE WORLD OF WORK”
daily basis led him to ask, “Don’t these citizens have unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of
to support graduate student fellowships
of Medicine for the past 10 years as the Coleman-
“Having completed grad-
a
contributions are dedicated
Braddock has been at the University of Colorado School
Associate Vice President. He also directs the multi-
feel
100% of 1910 Society
-Dr. David Braddock
MOST RECENT MEMBERS Dr. Barbara Altman Dr. & Mrs. Ernest and Sarah Butler Dr. Sheldon Ekland-Olson Ms. Bretna Hackert Mr. W. Hurley Admiral Bob Inman Ms. Margaret Kahn Mr. Mark Kittridge Ms. Rekha Patel Mr. David West
SPECIAL THANKS TO Mr. Michael Abrams Mr. James Brady Mr. Nicholas Classen Dr. David Falconer Dr. Roberto A. Galván Mr. & Ms. Jay and Jan Gilden Mr. Michael Haney Dr. Jacqueline Jones Dr. Kent Kelley Mr. George McGlamery Dr. James Mellard Dr. Ennis Ogawa Dr. Garrett Okamoto Dr. Maria Reyes Ms. Jennifer Schaeffer Ms. Miriam Sims Dr. Michael Sklar Ms. Marolyn Stubblefield Dr. Steven Ungerleider Ms. Maumi Villarreal
a publication of
happiness, to which all Americans are entitled?” Then, UT arranged a year-long internship in Washing-
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ton D.C. in governmental affairs at a national disability association that made him want to be a part of a quiet
Victoria E. Rodríguez
revolution that articulated and fought for the rights
VICE PROVOST AND DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES
John Dalton
of people with disabilities throughout our society. UT
ASSISTANT DEAN
had taught him about the potential of an America that
Kathleen Mabley
would provide opportunities for all its citizens, thus
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Jonathan Duffy
fulfilling its destiny.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
María Ramírez-Romo de Vivar
Braddock has made great strides in this area. As a professor of public health at the University of Illinois at
SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER
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Christopher Villalobos
Chicago, he was instrumental in establishing the nation’s
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first Ph.D. Program in Disability Studies and launched
Send address changes and questions to Jonathan Duffy, jpduffy@austin.utexas.edu or (512) 232-3631. 1 University Station G0400, Main Building, Room 101, Austin, Texas 78712. The information herein is subject to change © 2011.
and led a highly regarded Institute and academic
If you are interested in becoming a 1910 Society member or finding out more about estate planning to support graduate students, please contact Jonathan Duffy at (512) 232-3631. NEWSLETTER
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ERRATA | In vol. 1, number 2, (pg. 4) in the section titled “Barbara Conrad: When I Rise,” alumna Icy Simpson’s name was incorrectly cited.
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