Co-op awards scholarships over weekend at hotel
Brian Hardin, an electrical engineering senior, received the $20,000 University Co-op/George H. Mitchell Award for Academic Excellence at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin on Sunday.
"I'm an environmentalist but not in a conventional sense," Hardin said. "I'm not an activist. If you are an interested person and have a scientific background, I think you should try to invent something to help society, and this was my way of doing it."
Julie George, a government Ph.D. student, won the $5,000 grand prize for graduate research.
Undergraduate second prize winners who received $5,000 at the ceremony include Corinna Kester, a chemical engineering and Plan II senior; Geeti Mahajan, an Asian studies and Plan II senior; and Ashley Ray, an English honors senior.
Five graduate students also received $3,000 each for their work: Susan Kung in linguistics, Rahul Malhotra in physics, Heather Mathews in art history, Joyce Parga in anthropology and Weijia Xu in computer science.
The five undergraduate recipients of the $2,000 prize were business honors, marketing and Plan II senior Andrea Choquette; anthropology junior Maribelisa Gillespie; Charles Thomas, a humanities, German and psychology major; Sarah Tierney, a computer science, government and Plan II senior; and Amy Zolkoski, a choral studies senior.
- Bree Bernwanger
Hans Blix to speak on campus tonight; sold out
Hans Blix, the former leader of the United Nations inspection team, will speak about his search for weapons in Iraq at the LBJ auditorium at 6:30 p.m. today. Tickets to the speech are sold out.
Blix, who retired in June 2003, is expected to talk about the events that led to the war in Iraq and how to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
He is also chairman of the International Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction and released his first book, called "Disarming Iraq" in March.
- Lilly Rockwell
Universities now offering casino-management classes
EVANSTON, Ill. - With employee payrolls at casinos such as Caesars Palace and Harrah's exceeding $270 million per year, some universities now are recognizing casino management as a viable job field.
Michigan State University, University of Massachusetts and Tulane University are among the colleges that recently began offering casino-gaming classes.
- U-Wire
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