Portal:University of Texas at Austin/News/Archive
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Below are items that have appeared in the News section of The University of Texas at Austin Portal.
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- May 2006 — University alumnus Michael Dell and his wife Susan announce a US$50 million grant to the University to establish facilities for: Pediatric Health Research, Computer Science and the Advancement of Healthy Living.
- April 2006 — Six Longhorns from the national championship football team are selected in the 2006 NFL Draft: Vince Young, Michael Huff, Cedric Griffin, David Thomas, Jonathan Scott and Rodrique Wright.
- April 2006 — Texas clinches the second Lone Star Showdown over archrival Texas A&M.
- April 2006 — Approximately 106,000 electronic records of individuals associated with the McCombs School of Business are compromised in the University's second major security breach in three years.
- April 2006 — Professor David Oshinsky wins the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Polio: An American Story, which documents the polio epidemic in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s and the race to find a cure.
- March to April 2006 — Biology professor Eric Pianka is questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after warning of a future disease epidemic due to human population growth. Controversy ensues when talk radio hosts, a number of blogs, Forrest Mims, and William A. Dembski accuse him of advocating bioterrorism and genocidal racism.
- February 2006 — A substance discovered in a student dormitory initially tests positive as ricin. Further investigation by the FBI, however, indicates a false positive.
- March 2006 — The Board of Regents approves an average tuition increase of 4.9% over the next two years.
- February 2006 — William C. Powers, Jr. succeedes Larry Faulkner to become the 28th president of the University.
