You can find specific information about the College of Natural Sciences Convocation celebration here. College of Natural Sciences’ convocation ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 8:00am in the Frank Erwin Center.

You can find more information about The University of Texas at Austin Commencement exercise here. University Commencement seating opens at 5:00pm, Saturday, May 18, 2013.

Hook ‘em and stay in touch!

Please note: For the security and safety of our graduates and their families, backpacks, tote bags or any bags larger than 12 inches in any dimension will not be allowed into any of the Commencement venues. This applies to college, school and departmental ceremonies as well as the university-wide Commencement ceremony at the Tower. The current policy prohibiting coolers, picnic baskets, lawn chairs and large strollers also remains in effect.

In addition, all other bags, including purses, camera cases and diaper bags will be searched by security officers before visitors are permitted to enter the South, Main, East and West Malls for the University-wide ceremony.  These smaller bags are also subject to search at the college, school and departmental ceremonies.

We strongly urge all attendees not to bring bags to any of the ceremonies unless they are absolutely necessary. Those visitors bringing smaller bags should expect delays in order to enter the venue and those with the prohibited larger bags will be turned away.  Please plan accordingly and do not bring any packages that cannot be opened or inspected.

Gable’s research focuses on appetitive and aversive motivation in social interaction and close relationships. She is particularly interested in how approach and avoidance social motives contribute to the course and quality of social interactions and close relationships. Her research also examines the positive aspects of close relationships and their role in physical and emotional health.

The conference is open to all nutrition and healthcare professionals as well as laypersons interested in exploring a more mindful approach to eating.

Conference highlights:

Keynote speaker: Michelle May, MD, award-winning author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat

Hand-on cooking and tasting sessions: Chef David Bull, Executive Chef of Congress, Second Bar & Kitchen, and Bar Congress

Wine tasting: “Health Effects of Wine” a lecture and wine tasting featuring selections from Fall Creek Vineyards hosted in the President’s office in the University of Texas Tower

Topical and interesting lectures: “The Research Behind Nutrition Headlines in Popular Media”: become a mindful consumer of nutrition and health information by comparing the published research with what ends up on the evening news

Registration & information: You can find all the details at the University of Texas Nutrition Institute’s Web site.

Goran is a professor of preventative medicine, physiology, biophysics and pediatrics and is the director of both the Childhood Obesity Research Center and the Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. His research explores how the body regulates where excess fat is deposited, how increased body fat affects health and how fat is regulated during growth and development across segments of the population.  He is co-director of the university’s Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute and holds an endowed chair in childhood obesity and diabetes. He is particularly interested in ethnic disparities in obesity and obesity-related diseases.

In addition to having published nearly 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, Goran is also the developer and executive producer of an interactive computer game that promotes physical activity in children. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Pediatric Obesity, associate editor of the journal Obesity and co-editor of the “Handbook of Pediatric Obesity: Etiology, Pathophysiology and Prevention,” published in 2006.

Clothing the Planet (TXA f303, Unique #91455, M,T, W, TH–9:30-11:30am, GEA 100) is an introduction to the production of clothing an textile products in the global economy. The course blends vastly different approaches to textile and apparel production.

Clothing and Human Behavior (TXA f327, Unique#91460, M,T,W, TH,F–11:30-1:00pm, GEA 100) covers the many facets of clothing and appearance. This course, which carries a cultural diversity flag requirement, examines how fashion and beauty influence behavior.

You can find a wonderful Q&A featuring Eastwick in the Observer, a magazine published by the APS.

You can learn more about Eastwick’s research interests on his Web site www.pauleastwick.com

Singh is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, Hillman Cancer Center. Singh’s research focuses on preclinical and clinical development of novel agents, derived from dietary sources and traditional oriental and Indian medicinal plants, for the prevention of prostate and breast cancer in humans.

If you are not presenting this year, stop by and see the incredible work being done by your fellow students.

The 2013 Undergraduate Research Forum will take place on Friday, April 12, 2013 from 11am to 3pm in the Welch main hallway.

Last year, we awarded scholarship funds to 72 exceptional undergraduate students. This year, you could be one of those students!

If you are a major in Human Development and Family Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, Textiles and Apparel or Human Ecology, you are eligible to apply. Regardless of where you are in your academic career (only those students preparing for graduation before August, 2013 are ineligible), you should consider applying for School of Human Ecology scholarships.

What will you need to apply? You should have a UT EID and password. If you are claimed as a dependent on your parents’ taxes, you should collect some basic information about your parents’ tax filing from last year (2012). You will prepare a personal essay, and you will need a resume. You will need two references (and one of those references will need to be a UT faculty member)–so, be sure to contact your references in advance to ask their permission to be included as part of your scholarship application. Do you have all of that ready? Then you are ready to go.

This year, we have brought the entire process on-line! When you are ready to go, you can find the 2013-2014 School of Human Ecology Scholarship Application here.

Completed applications are due by April 15, 2013 at 5:00pm.

Have questions or concerns, please contact Martha Berry by email or by phone at 512-471-1938.

Ms. Scaturro will present a talk titled, “The Future of Textile Conservation and Museum Management” and will participate in a panel discussion centered on the topic of textile conservation.

She was formerly the Textile Conservator and Assistant Curator of Fashion at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution.  She teaches fashion archiving in FIT’s Fashion and Textiles Studies MA program and material culture studies in Parsons’ Fashion Studies MA program.  A member of the Board of Directors for the Textile Arts Center and the Costume Society of America, Sarah is also an independent fashion curator and lectures and publishes internationally.

The talk will be held Friday, March 22 at 9:00am in the Prothro Theater in the Harry Ransom Center.

The panel discussion will be held Friday, March 22 at 2:00pm in Gearing Hall room 105.

The university community and the general public is most welcome to attend.