The University of Texas at Austin

The Texas Exes Distinguished Alumnus Award recognizes alumni who have made significant achievements in their careers and service to the University. The 2024 honorees are: - Sherryl Griffin Bozeman | BA ’64, College of Liberal Arts; Executive Minister, A Samaritan Model; Houston, TX; Life Member - David Cordell Lake | BS ’77, School of Architecture/College of Liberal Arts; Founding Partner, Lake|Flato Architects; San Antonio, TX - Todd Maclin | BBA ’78, McCombs School of Business; Retired CEO, Chase Commercial and Consumer Banking; Dallas, TX; Life Member - Cappy R. McGarr | BA ’73, College of Liberal Arts; BJ ’75, Moody College of Communication; MBA ’77, McCombs School of Business; President, MCM Interests, Author; Dallas, TX; Life Member - Laura Thomas Starks | BA’72, College of Liberal Arts; PhD ’81, McCombs School of Business; George Kozmetsky Centennial University Distinguished Chair; Austin, TX; Life Member - Autry C. Stephens | BS ’61, MS ’62, Cockrell School of Engineering; Founder, Endeavor Energy Resources L.P.; Midland, TX; Life Member #WhatStartsHere

While UT student Grant Walther was attending the Longhorns football game on Saturday, October 19 (along with 105,214 other enthusiastic fans, a record-setting attendance!), he became a meme. The 20-year-old sophomore has met the unexpected attention with class, dignity and humor, branding himself "Angry Texas Fan" on social media. Now Grant wants to turn attention toward a more important issue: cancer research. It's a cause that is very personal to Grant and his family. Grant’s great-grandfather has been diagnosed with bladder cancer. Grant’s maternal grandmother recently beat breast cancer, but the fight continues for many others: the American Cancer Society estimates that more than 300,000 people will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year alone, making it the country’s most diagnosed form of the disease. With your gift to support breast cancer research at UT, you can help Grant change a hair-raising experience into a heartwarming one.

Gatorade, bats galore, music towns, research collabs and marine science. In our new series SEC Connections, we take a quick look at coincidences, partnerships and parallels between The University of Texas at Austin and our sister schools in the Southeastern Conference. This week, University of Florida. #ItJustMeansMore | SEC Academic Relations

We launched what is believed to be the first program that high school students can apply directly to and hear back prior to making a college decision. The honors program will integrate students as soon as they arrive on campus into the immersive and interdisciplinary curriculum, which includes hands-on research, engineering and computer science coursework, and participation in UT’s top-ranked Texas Robotics’ events and programs. Learn more about this new program and join us on the Forty Acres: https://lnkd.in/gEHBsPVi Bill Gurley | #WhatStartsHere | #TexasAI

Longhorns at Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are advancing tumor models and improving treatment options: #WhatStartsHere | #TexasAI

A great college experience depends on a variety of factors, such as students' living expenses, academic and employment opportunities, and social environment. A WalletHub analysis considered these factors when ranking Austin the best college town in America #WhatStartsHere #BeALonghorn #HookEm #UTAustin

📢 The LBJ School at The University of Texas at Austin is excited to announce the launch of the Center on Municipal Capital Markets (CMCM)—one of the only university-based centers in the nation solely focused on capital market issues in municipal finance. Curious to learn more? CMCM Director and public finance expert Dr. Marty Luby can break it down for you—check it out to see why municipal finance matters! 🔗Click the link below for more details about CMCM: https://bit.ly/3YEoHqm

In our new series SEC Connections, we take a quick look at coincidences, partnerships and parallels between The University of Texas at Austin and our sister schools in the Southeastern Conference. This week, Vanderbilt University. Read the full story at UT News: https://utex.as/4hatcQR SEC Academic Relations | #ItJustMeansMore | #HookEm | #WhatStartsHere

AI in the GI: Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and we mean everywhere. Three UT professors are collaborating so AI will help prevent colorectal cancer.   Three professors at UT in different disciplines have come together in hopes of drastically improving the hunt for precancerous polyps in colonoscopies: one a surgeon at Dell Med, one in mechanical engineering, and one in electrical engineering. And they’re deploying artificial intelligence in the hunt.   Joga Ivatury, associate professor and chief of colorectal surgery at UT’s Dell Medical School, recruited Farshid Alambeigi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, to collaborate on one project and Radu Marculescu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, to collaborate on another.   Ivatury thinks of the challenge in terms of yard work. “It's like this large lawn, and we need to take out only the weeds. What we're doing is training the system with all the different possible types of weeds, different yards, telling it: ‘This is a weed; this is grass.’” These “pictures” in the analogy are data from two sources: patients of Ivatury’s at Dell Med, and publicly available health data sets. “What we’re doing now is getting pictures of real yards and real weeds, pulling those weeds and making sure they’re truly weeds based on pathology,” he says.    AI will take what it has learned and extrapolate to create a larger sample size. Think of this as uploading hundreds of pictures of yards with and without weeds, then creating thousands of other pictures that will teach the machine to identify them in any possible scenario with regard to angle, lighting and the surrounding topography of the colon, which is tricky to say the least.    Finally, AI will assist in the procedure. AI during a colonoscopy will control for the differences in the often-complicated contours of even a healthy colon, for the lighting, and, in instances when the colon is not completely clean, obscuring.   Read the full story at UT News: https://utex.as/3Ysi62d #TexasAI | #WhatStartsHere | Joga Ivatury | Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin | Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Dog mascots, music towns, research collabs and entrepreneurial students. In our new series SEC Connections, we take a quick look at coincidences, partnerships and parallels between The University of Texas at Austin and our sister schools in the Southeastern Conference. This week, The University of Georgia. SEC Academic Relations | #ItJustMeansMore | #HookEm | #WhatStartsHere