Ralph J. (R.J.) Kaufmann [1] was an American historian of English literature. He was a Stiles Professor Emeritus in Humanities and Comparative Literature, and a widely collected author. [2] [3] [4]
TheUniversity of Texas at Austin is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 graduate students and 3,133 teaching faculty as of Fall 2021, it is also the largest institution in the system.
Walter Arnold Kaufmann was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature. He served more than 30 years as a professor at Princeton University.
Melvyn Hayes "Mel" Gussow was an American theater critic, movie critic, and author who wrote for The New York Times for 35 years.
The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs is a graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin that was founded in 1970 to offer training in public policy analysis and administration for students that are very interested in pursuing careers in government and public affairs-related areas of the private and nonprofit sectors. Degree programs include a Master of Public Affairs (MPAff), a mid-career MPAff sequence, 16 MPAff dual degree programs, a Master of Global Policy Studies (MGPS), eight MGPS dual degree programs, an Executive Master of Public Leadership, and a Ph.D. in public policy.The LBJ School is currently ranked 7th among public affairs programs in 2022 by U.S. News & World Report, up from 8th in 2021.
The Cockrell School of Engineering is one of the eighteen colleges within the University of Texas at Austin. It has more than 8,000 students enrolled in eleven undergraduate and thirteen graduate programs. The college is ranked 10th in the world according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, 11th nationally for undergraduate programs and 10th nationally for graduate programs by U.S. News & World Report. Nine of the ten undergraduate programs and seven of the eleven graduate programs are ranked in the top ten nationally. Annual research expenditures are over $180 million and the school has the fourth-largest number of faculty in the National Academy of Engineering.
The University of Texas Press is a university press that is part of the University of Texas at Austin. Established in 1950, the Press publishes scholarly books and journals in several areas, including Latin American studies, Texana, anthropology, U.S. Latino studies, Native American studies, African American studies, film & media studies, classics and the ancient Near East, Middle East studies, natural history, art, and architecture. The Press also publishes trade books and journals relating to their major subject areas.
The College of Liberal Arts(COLA) is the liberal arts college at The University of Texas at Austin. The college dates back to 1883, the university's opening year, but today's college was formed in 1970 with the split of the College of Arts & Sciences. The college offers more than 45 degrees in undergraduate and graduate liberal arts disciplines.
The Dell Medical School is the graduate medical school of The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. The school opened to the inaugural class of 50 students in the summer of 2016 as the newest of 18 colleges and schools on the UT Austin campus. S. Claiborne "Clay" Johnston, M.D., Ph.D., was named as the medical school's inaugural dean in January 2014. On September 1, 2021 Johnston stepped down from his position and George Macones was named interim dean.
Daniel Jaffe is an American astronomer, currently the Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor at University of Texas at Austin. He received his BA, MA, and PhD from Harvard University. He currently serves as the Interim Executive Vice President and Provost at The University of Texas at Austin. He previously served as the Vice President for Research.
John Kormendy, is an American astronomer, currently the Curtis T. Vaughn, Jr. Centennial Chair at University of Texas at Austin. He is known for the Kormendy relation found in the surface brightness profiles for elliptic galaxies.
James D. Garrison is an American historian of literature, and currently the University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a published author.
Phillip J. Barrish is a literary scholar, currently the Tony Hilfer Professor of American and British Literature at University of Texas at Austin, and also a published author.
Taft E. Armandroff is an American astronomer, currently the Frank and Susan Bash Endowed Chair for the Director of the McDonald Observatory, at University of Texas at Austin.
Dean R. Appling is an American biochemist and Associate Dean, Lester J. Reed Professor at University of Texas at Austin and a published author. More information on Dean Appling's lab, focused on folic acid research and affectionately called the Folic Acid Research Team ("FART"), can be found at https://sites.cns.utexas.edu/applinglab/home.
Marjorie Curry Woods is an American historian of English literature, currently the Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor at and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at University of Texas at Austin.
Elizabeth Cullingford is an American scholar of literature and Irish literature and the Jane Weinert Blumberg Chair and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mark L. Ascher is an American law professor, currently the Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence, and previously the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair, and the Sylvan Lang Professor, at the University of Texas School of Law, and also previously the Ralph W. Bilby Professor at the James E. Rogers College of Law of the University of Arizona.
Alan Warren Friedman is Thaman Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a specialist in the work of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.