BATTLE HALL PROJECT — ADVANCED INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO

This spring semester, a joint studio project focused on historic Battle Hall (designed in 1911 by New York architect Cass Gilbert) on the UT Austin campus. The project was a joint effort between the School of Architecture's Interior Design and Historic Preservation Programs and the UT School of Information. Co-instructors were Jane Garland Lucas (Interior Design), Fran Gale (Historic Preservation), and Karen Pavelka (School of Information). Students represented the interior design, historic preservation, and undergraduate and graduate architecture programs.

During the semester, the students had an opportunity to re-design the historic interiors of Battle Hall, with special attention to the collections housed within, and to address its relationship to the adjacent West Mall Building, constructed in the 1960s. The issues the students tackled included establishing the character-defining features of Battle Hall, re-organizing the interior programs in both buildings, and developing an internal link between the two buildings.

The students began by researching Battle Hall's history and examining original drawings and early photographs. After identifying the character-defining features of Battle Hall, the students used resources such as the Alexander Architectural Archive and the Center for American History to research original materials and finishes. This aspect of the project also included on-site investigation and laboratory testing. For the latter, students examined original flooring materials, plaster, and paints in the Architectural Conservation Laboratory.

For the studio project, the students determined that the future occupants of both buildings should be the School of Architecture, the Architecture and Planning Library, and the Alexander Architectural Archive, and arranged a series of interviews with architecture faculty and library staff to determine program goals and space needs. Working in teams of two, the students developed concepts and a program to guide their designs. One of the most challenging aspects of the project was the internal joining of the two buildings. The students built a model of the buildings and developed building sections to help understand the relationship between the mismatched floor levels of Battle Hall and West Mall Building.

During the final studio review session, invited critics and stakeholders will have an opportunity to critique student designs for Battle Hall and West Mall Building. Based on reviewers' comments during schematic design and design development, the research and the design work completed by these 14 students may be helpful during the upcoming feasibility study for the renovation of Battle Hall and the West Mall Building.

In 2011, the University will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Battle Hall. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Battle Hall originally served as the main library for the University. Outside of the University community, Battle Hall is widely recognized by architectural historians as one of the finest works of architecture in Texas and, in 2007, was named one of America's 150 Most Important Buildings by the American Institute of Architects. Today, the building houses the Architecture and Planning Library, the Alexander Architectural Archive, the Center for American Architecture and Design, and School of Architecture faculty offices.

CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Elizabeth Mueller, Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Social Work and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development (CSD), has announced that she will be stepping down as CSD director in fall 2009. Liz has been director since the fall of 2007. During her tenure the center has begun a number of new initiatives aimed at strengthening teaching, student support, and research on various aspects of sustainable development. Werner Lang, Associate Professor of Architecture and director of CSD's Thermal Lab, will become director on September 1. Liz will continue to be affiliated as director of the center's agenda for equity and sustainability. She will also continue to coordinate the center's sustainable education initiative (supported by the Meadows Foundation) and help shape the new sustainable cities doctoral initiative (supported by a grant from the UT System).

Werner Lang joined our school in 2008, where he is currently teaching building construction, sustainable design, and the use of renewable energies in architecture. His focus in research is on the energy performance of buildings and the relationship between the environment and architectural design. He is a member of the management committee of the COST 23 Action on the reduction of CO2 emissions in the built environment, sponsored by the European Commission, and was one of the leading scientists in the research project for development of low-energy façade and window systems (Re-Frame), sponsored by the European Commission, prior to joining our school. Werner became a fellow of the Center for Sustainable Development in spring 2008 and has worked on the integration of various disciplines in teaching and research on campus and beyond, such as his current collaboration with Austin Energy.

ISSUE: 005 IS HERE

ISSUE: is an annual student-run publication featuring graduate and undergraduate work at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. Its intent is to foster interaction and the interchange of ideas among students, as well as to record the intellectual activities of the school.

The latest edition, Volume 005, is out now and features design, theory and research work from students in architecture, landscape architecture, community regional planning, urban design, and interior design. The journal is available to all current students, faculty, and staff for free. If you would like to purchase a copy, please contact the ISSUE: staff at issueUT@gmail.com. All proceeds go towards funding the next edition.

The editors would like to thank Assistant Professors Michael Beaman and Jason Sowell and Associate Professor Nichole Wiedemann for their time, critical eye, and counsel.

Volume 005 would not have been possible without the generous support from the following:

• Frederick Steiner, UTSOA Advisory Council and UT Friends of Architecture
• Steven Moore, Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor in Architecture
• Lawrence Speck, Lawrence W. Speck Excellence Fund
• Professional Residency Program, Nichole Wiedemann
• Office Of Career Services, Carrie O’Malley
• David Heymann, Martin S. Kermacy Centennial Professor
• Barbara Hoidn and Wilfried Wang, O’Neil Ford Chair
• Nancy Kwallek, Gene Edward Mikeska Endowed Chair in Interior Design
• Werner Lang, Associate Professor of Architecture in Sustainable Design
• Richard Cleary, Page Southerland Page Fellow
• Kevin Alter, Sid W. Richardson Professor
• Michael Benedikt, Hal Box Chair in Urbanism

FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP

Associate Professor Elizabeth Danze is one of four UT Austin faculty members selected to hold a Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship during the 2009-2010 fall semester, Dr. Steven W. Leslie, executive vice president and provost, has announced.

Leslie said the award reflects the recipients' teaching excellence and commitment, and an acknowledgment of the many contributions they have made to the undergraduate experience for students at the university.

Recipients of the award will receive a $3,500 honorarium as a salary supplement during the fall 2009 semester, Leslie said.

Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellowships were established by the University of Texas System Board of Regents in 1983 with funds raised by the UT Austin Dads' Association and matching funds under the Centennial Teachers and Scholars Program. Selection of faculty members appointed as Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellows is based upon recommendations from the deans of colleges and schools offering courses for freshman undergraduates.

Anthony Alofsin, Roland Roessner Centennial Professor of Architecture, was featured in an interview in Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., for the new book he edited, A Modernist Museum in Perspective: The East Building, National Gallery of Art. The article appeared on Tuesday, April 28, 2009.

Professor Alofsin has been invited by the Austrian Association of Art Historians to give a keynote lecture in Vienna at the association's annual international congress. The lecture, to be held on November 6, will explore transforming and interpreting architecture in Central Europe in the first decades of the 20th century. Dr. Alofsin's book in this subject area, When Buildings Speak, Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, won the Vasari Award from the Dallas Museum of Art in 2007.

On April 17, Associate Professor Juan Miró received the Silver Medal for distinction in design, awarded by the Tau Sigma Delta Architecture Honors Society at Texas Tech University. He then presented his lecture, "Building, Nature and the Relevance of History: Reflections on Recent Work."

Earlier this year, Professor Miró lectured with his partner Miguel Rivera about the work of their firm, Miró Rivera Architects, at the architecture schools of the University of Buffalo and Louisiana State University.

They also presented a lecture at the Dallas Architecture Forum, which was attended by many UT alumni from the Dallas area. In his introductory remarks, Edward Baum, former dean of the UT Arlington School of Arcitecture, noted, "This evening's speakers, Juan Miró and Miguel Rivera, are leaders in the emerging generation of architects here in Texas[...]. Their collaboration has produced excellent work -- buildings and projects that find their elegance and eloquence in a very thoughtful direct approach to the task and the means at hand[...]. We have decades of their work to look forward to."

Dean Fritz Steiner's book review of Nan Ellin's Integral Urbanism (New York: Routledge, 2006) appears in the latest edition of the Journal of Urban Affairs, Volume 31, Number 2, 2009.

Assistant Professor Bjørn Sletto has received the Silver award from the twelfth annual Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program (IITAP), sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment. UT Austin Provost Steven Leslie called his entry, the "East Austin Environmental Justice Project: Facilitating Environment Justice Pedagogy with Digital Technologies," a "model for using innovative instructional technology to engage students for active learning."

Jason Sowell, assistant professor of landscape architecture, had his essay, "Cash Crops, Energy Landscapes," selected for the upcoming book Bracket 01: On Farming, edited by Mason White and scheduled for fall 2009 publication. The essay examines the overlaps between industrial agriculture, wind energy, natural gas production, and water use in the state of Texas.

Assistant Professor Jason Sowell's and Associate Dean Nichole Wiedemann's essay, "Sponge Urbanism: The Cellular Redevelopment of New Orleans," was published in the May 2009 edition of the Journal of Architectural Education.

Using New Orleans as a case study, the proposed research, Sponge Urbanism, examines the potential of infrastructure to anticipate, rather than react to, flux in ecologic, economic, and technologic systems. Rather than enhance the false dichotomy between nature and culture, the aim is to rethink these systems and suggest broader, more integrated landscape and architectural tactics that achieve resilience in the face of extreme circumstances.

Associate Professor Werner Lang was of the panelists in the Central Texas Chapter Congress for the New Urbanism's "Pecan Street Project and the Built Environment" program in Austin on April 29.

The issues being addressed were: How will the Pecan Street Project, Austin's innovative effort to create a new clean-energy infrastructure, impact the future of the town's urban landscape? Werner Lang is a member of the working team 2 with Austin Energy, which works on options for low-tech strategies for sustainable building.

Jason Sowell and Hope Hasbrouck, assistant professors of landscape architecture, had their project seedBANK, selected for the upcoming publication Third Coast Atlas, edited by Charles Waldheim and Clare Lyster. The project examines the potential programs for a public, urban landscape for Cleveland, Ohio.

Lecturer Nik Nikolov's article titled "CINEMARCHITECTURE: Memory and Duration as Determining Elements of Architecture" was published in issue 9 of In.Form magazine. The text discusses how the immergence of the moving image in the earlier years of the 20th century and its current domination over our culture and thought has established "reality" (and architecture) as a temporal practice. UTSOA students Nandita Kamath, Hyo Park, Jessie Weber, Ryan Deffebach, and Shreya Krishnan contributed drawings from their Design V Studio, Fall 2008.

In.Form is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal co-sponsored by the University of Nebraska College of Architecture and The Kruger Collection. The topic of issue 9 evaluates and discusses the problematic of time in architecture and design.

Professor Michael Benedikt's book, God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy was reviewed in the May 2009 edition of the Journal of Architectural Education.

ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

THANK YOU CLASS OF 1959!

Last week's 50-Year Alumni Reunion was a great success. The alums enjoyed a group luncheon on Thursday with Dean Fritz Steiner and a keynote speech from UT Austin Provost Steven Leslie. Following the luncheon, the group met with fourth-year architecture student, Everett Hollander, who took them on tours of graduate and undergraduate studios, the Visual Resources Collection, the Materials Lab, and the Alexander Architectural Archive.

ALUMNI UPDATE

Snøhetta has won the 2009 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award for the National Opera House in Oslo, Norway. The project architects are alumnus Craig Dykers [B.Arch. '85], Tarald Lundevall, and Kjetil Thorsen.

The Mies van der Rohe Award is granted every two years by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe. By supporting the prize, the European Commission underlines the role of architecture as a driver for creativity and innovation, opens up culture to audiences beyond national borders, and draws attention to the European professionals' contributions in the development of new ideas and technologies that impact Europeans' everyday lives.

The award consists of a cash prize of 60,000€ and a sculpture evoking Mies van der Rohe's German Pavilion. There will be a special award granting ceremony at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona on May 28.

ALUMNI AND FRIENDS RECEPTION IN SAN FRANCISCO

On Thursday, April 30, over 100 UTSOA alumni and friends joined faculty members Larry Speck and Mirka Benes for a lively reception at the San Francisco offices of EDAW/AECOM. Held in conjunction with the annual AIA convention, the reception brought together alumni from a wide range of graduation dates ('60s through current students) and a broad geographical representation.

Professor Speck's comments highlighted the great work of our students and faculty, as well as the many wonderful philanthropic gifts that have been made thus far to the school's capital campaign. Professor Benes updated the group on the excellent progress being made with the landscape architecture program, now ranked by DesignIntelligence in the top 11 programs in the nation.

Todd Kohli, Managing Director of EDAW, also welcomed everyone and shared information about the firm and its connections to the University of Texas at Austin. We want to extend our thanks again to EDAW/AECOM for hosting our friends and alumni to a wonderful evening in a great city.

ALUMNI EVENTS

Being an alum has its benefits! As an alumnus of the School of Architecture, you will have many opportunities for ongoing contact with the school and our alumni community:

• Social and intellectual enrichment at one of our annual socials or mixers
  
• Expanded networks for professional growth and development by attending our series of lectures and exhibits
  
• Connections with UTSOA students, staff, and faculty, and continued involvement in the welfare and future of the school by joining Friends of Architecture

We are continuing our effort to find (and maintain) the most accurate contact information for all of our alumni. Stay in touch with former classmates--update your record and contact preferences by logging on to the university's online alumni directory.

More details will be available on the School of Architecture alumni web page as events approach. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Stacy Manning at smanning@austin.utexas.edu or 512.471.0617.

CAREER RESOURCES FOR ALUMNI

Did you know that as an alumnus of the University of Texas, you have access to valuable career tools such as AccessUT and Texas Exes Career Services?

AccessUT is an online job and internship database within the university's Hire Texas web site that allows students and alumni to view postings from employers searching for their next hire. It also provides employers a free, centralized place to post professional, career-related job and internship opportunities for students and alumni.

The Texas Exes offers important career services such as one-on-one career consultations, resume critiques, coaching, online career assessment tools, seminars, job-searching resources, networking opportunities, and a Virtual Career Center.

STUDENT CONNECTIONS

STUDENT AWARDS

Matthew Montry, a fourth-year architecture student, currently in residence with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, was one of nine finalists [the only one from the School of Architecture] for the 2009 University Co-op George H. Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence. His project, which proposed a series of multi-use shelters for the LBJ Grasslands, received a $5,000 prize in recognition for scholarly and creative achievement. Assistant Professor Jason Sowell served as Matthew's advisor.

Sowell comments, "From material selection and mechanical operation, to construction assembly and site placement, the shelters reflect Matthew's uncompromising design process, keen proportional sensibilities, and address concern for delimiting unsustainable practices."

The University Co-op awards celebrate and reward undergraduate students who have demonstrated unparalleled dedication and achievement in their fields of study.

Michael Averitt, [MLA '08] received an honor award from the Texas American Society of Landscape Architects [ASLA] for his Master's Design Thesis [Jason Sowell, advisor]. Cameron Campbell and Wen Shang, current third-year MLA students, received an honor award from the Texas ASLA, for their pocket park network in Beijing [Fritz Steiner, Wilfried Wang, Ming Zhang, critics].

Ryan Buckley, a second-year landscape architecture student, received a University Continuing Fellowship in the amount of $18,000. Katie Schmidt, also a second-year landscape architecture student, received a University Continuing Fellowship in the amount of $1,000.

Binbin Chen, a community and regional planning (CRP) doctoral candidate, received a University Continuing Fellowship in the amount of $6,000. CRP doctoral candidates Ahmed Abukhater and Lynn Osgood each received a University Continuing Fellowship in the amount of $1,000.

Ilan Vit, doctoral candidate in architecture, received a University Continuing Fellowship in the amount of $19,000. Architecture graduate student Audrey McKee received a University Continuing Fellowship in the amount of $6,000; and Kevin Johnson received one in the amount of $1000.

Janice Nicol, a second-year landscape architecture student, was one of 28 students nationwide nominated for the Landscape Architecture Foundation's Olmsted Scholarship. The award will be announced in September 2009. Associate Professor Mirka Benes served as Janice's advisor.

SCHOLARSHIPS

The school's Texas Architectural Foundation (TAF) subcommittee reviewed student applicants for eligibility for 2009-2010 TAF scholarships. The list of available TAF awards was small compared to last year, when our students received 18 awards totaling almost $20,000 in TAF funds.

This year, our school was eligible to apply for eleven different TAF scholarships, three of which are for UT Austin. Our students received ALL of the eight competitive scholarships totaling $12,850, in addition to $2,750 in awards designated for our school. While the overall amount this year is smaller than last year, our students did extremely well.

Congratulations to Kayla Lyssy, Adam Gates, Julie Williams, Constance Rosado, Melynn Mayfield, Katherine Tucker, Tahinee Marin, Li Tong, and Erin Rankin for their outstanding applications. Applicants for the designated UT Austin awards were Jason Haskins, Matthew Leach, and Alexis Kurland.

During the current (2008-09) academic year, 161 students (67 undergraduate and 94 graduate) out of 654 (300 undergraduate and 354 graduate) applied for general School of Architecture scholarships. Of those applicants, just over one third -- 61 students (32 undergraduate and 29 graduate) -- were awarded a total of $101,300 in scholarships. In addition to these 61 continuing students, 42 incoming students received recruiting scholarships totaling $99,900. Of the total awards granted, approximately $20,000 comes from brand new scholarships or one-time gifts to the school. We appreciate the generosity of our supporters. The School of Architecture was also able to provide 35 waivers for the out-of-state portion of tuition to non-Texas resident students.

The school has also allotted a substantial amount of travel support. Twenty-four students received a total of $38,200 for independent research travel. In addition, 80 students received a total of over $100,000 to participate in a variety of studios, some in Texas, others as far away as Italy or Brazil.

If you are interested in learning about ways to provide support to our students, please contact Julie Hooper, Assistant Dean for Development and External Relations, at 512.471.6114 or jhooper@austin.utexas.edu.

ALPHA RHO CHI ELECTS 2009-2010 EXECUTIVE BOARD

Alpha Rho Chi (APX), the national professional fraternity for architecture and the allied arts, is wrapping up an important school year and would like to congratulate its new executive board for the 2009-2010 school year.

President: Alix Bulliet, Interior Design '11
Vice President: Jaime Ditman, Urban Studies '10
Treasurer: Francisca Pineda, Architecture '13
Secretary: Christine Adame, Architecture '13

Currently led by President Jessie Weber (Architectural Studies '09), Vice President Amanda Prins (Architecture '11), Treasurer Alix Bulliet (Interior Design '11) Secretary Megan Sanguinetti (Architectural Studies '09), and Social Chair Ben Howell (Architecture '11), Alpha Rho Chi is finishing a successful year in the School of Architecture.

This year the group...

• hosted the fraternity's national leadership conference in which students and alumni from 30 architecture schools from around the country gathered in Austin for a weekend of professional workshops
• promoted a more effective recycling system in the school
• worked towards increasing professor-student communications and relations
• participated in various university events, like Longhorn Saturdays and Explore UT
• won the Alpha Rho Chi So Witten Scholastic Achievement Award for the highest GPA and academic honors and the National Service Award for its philanthropic endeavors

Alpha Rho Chi looks forward to another successful school year, as they aim to increase professional and philanthropic opportunities within the School of Architecture and greater Austin communities.

DWR AUSTIN STUDIO M+D+F

M+D+F (Modern | Design | Function) juried exhibition was hosted by Design Within Reach in eight cities across the U.S. on May 3. The DWR Austin Studio M+D+F event provided an opportunity for peer, public, and professional recognition by showcasing innovative furniture and lighting by emerging designers in the Austin area. The judges for M+D+F 2009 were hotelier Liz Lambert; Jack Sanders [M.Arch. '05], founder of Design Build Adventure; interior designer Tracey Overbeck Stead [B.S.I.D. '97]; and Senior Lecturer Steve Ross, co-founder of Design Build Alliance. The judges selected Best of Show and Best Sustainable Design, as well as Best in both furniture and lighting categories.

UTSOA graduate architecture student, Gian Calaci, won best of show for her hanging lamp design. Lecturers Joyce Rosner and Mark Macek tied for best furniture award. Eric Lawrence won best sustainable design for "Styrolight," made from Apple packing materials.

Among those submitting projects chosen for exhibition during the event were Robbie Gay [M.Arch. '05], Ann Armstrong [M.Arch. '07], and current graduate architecture students Ryan Anderson and Roman McAllen.

FRIENDS OF ARCHITECTURE

Friends of Architecture (FOA) is an annual giving program within the School of Architecture with a mission to increase knowledge and awareness of superior architecture, planning, and design and to advance quality education for future generations. Our members are current students, faculty, alumni, patrons, practitioners, and aficionados who believe in the significance of the built environment and are looking to take part in shaping its future by supporting excellence within the School of Architecture.

FOA membership benefits include involvement opportunities through the school's lectures, exhibitions, and publications and access to significant architecture and design with our exclusive tours.

How to Join
As of September 1, 2007, all donors to the Annual Fund Program who direct their gifts in the amount of $50 or more to the School of Architecture automatically receive a one-year membership in Friends of Architecture.

Make your gift today at our giving page. Click on "School of Architecture" in the right-hand menu to make your donation and start receiving your FOA benefits!

You may also make a contribution directly to FOA online. Log on to our website to join online, learn about member benefits, and get information about upcoming tours and events.

Friends of Architecture would like to thank our Corporate Silver members and supporters Curtis & Windham Architects and Lucifer Lighting Company.

Events

For the latest updates, check out the online UTSOA Calendar.

Funding for lectures and exhibits is provided in part by the Herbert M. Greene Centennial Lectureship, the Wolf and Janet Jessen Centennial Lectureship, the Karl Kamrath Lectureship, the Edwin A. Schneider Centennial Lectureship, and the Brightman/York Endowed Lecture Series in Interior Design.

EXHIBIT

April 24 - May 8
Northwest corner, Harry Ransom Center

"5 X 5 EXHIBITION”

The 5 X 5 Exhibition is a temporary installation comprised of various design concepts expressing contemporary issues in landscape architecture and environmental design. The goal of the exhibit is to help improve outdoor environments on The University of Texas at Austin campus by exploring and experimenting with alternative solutions to the university's vernacular landscape. The exhibition will take place in twenty-five 5'x5' raised concrete planters at the northwestern corner of the Harry Ransom Center (HRC).

Currently, these planters are neglected as a result of the challenging site conditions including: inadequate sunlight, lack of permanent irrigation, poor soil conditions, and lack of any natural precipitation. In response, the ASLA Student Chapter hosted a design competition housed within the School of Architecture encouraging students to propose expressive alternatives and sustainable solutions to this challenging site. Thirty-nine submissions were narrowed down to twenty-five proposals by a jury of faculty members. Each of the twenty-five received fifty dollars to install their design concepts.

Ultimately, the UT Austin ASLA student chapter hopes to work towards a long-term solution for this problematic site. The temporary exhibition will bring attention to this neglected place on campus and help improve the university's awareness of how landscape architecture students in the School of Architecture could become helpful resources in future campus improvement projects.

EXHIBIT

January 16-August 14, 2009
Visual Resources Collection
Sutton Hall 3.128 (Monday-Friday, 8-5)

"Perceiving Space: The Hal Box and Logan Wagner Collection of Mexican Architecture and Urban Design"

Every summer from 1985 to 1996, with the assistance of volunteer teams from Earthwatch, W.L. Moody, Jr. Centennial Professor Emeritus in Architecture and former dean of the School of Architecture Hal Box, FAIA, and Dr. Logan Wagner [M.Arch. '79; Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, with an architectural history concentration, '97] explored, photographed, measured, and made scale drawings of over ninety towns in Mexico. The collection of over 8,000 slides taken during this period was donated to the School of Architecture's Visual Resources Collection (VRC).

The exhibit highlights a selection of images from a collection that documents communal open spaces built in Mexico from 2000 B.C. to the present, concentrating on the 16th and 17th century fusion of Mesoamerican and European architecture and town planning. Contained in the collection are images of sacred open spaces formed by ancient pyramids and the plazas, atrios, cloisters, and towns' central plazas.

The Hal Box and Logan Wagner Collection of Mexican Architecture and Urban Design are available in ARTstor and as part of the VRC's online Image Collection.

VRC WINS 2009 TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION'S PUBLIC RELATIONS BRANDING IRON AWARD

The School of Architecture's Visual Resources Collection's (VRC) videos have been awarded the 2009 Texas Library Association's Public Relations Branding Iron Award in the Non-Traditional Category. VRC staff members worked with local video producer Mike Dow to create the award winning outreach and instructional videos available on YouTube.

The VRC, along with the rest of this year's winners, will be featured in the summer 2009 issue of the Texas Library Journal.

For additional information, please contact the VRC's Director Elizabeth Schaub.

CONTACTS

In this fast-paced world, there's a lot of news to keep up with. We know you are doing great things, and we rely on you not only to share your stories, but also to keep us up-to-date on your contact information so that we can share our stories with you. Alumni, please send your news and contact updates to Associate Director of Constituent and Alumni Relations Stacy Manning at smanning@austin.utexas.edu. Students, faculty, and staff may send updates to eNews editor Pamela Peters at p.peters@mail.utexas.edu.

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