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The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the nation's leading interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging, has named Bill Chopik among the outstanding award winners for the year, in recognition of his research on gratitude, aging and whether cultural experiences come into play.

The Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award was awarded to Chopik for the article, "Grateful expectations: Cultural differences in the curvilinear association between age and gratitude." The award recognized insightful and innovative publications on aging and life course development in the behavioral and social sciences.

A letter from the chair of the Department of Human Development & Family Sciences, Stephen T. Russell, and the director of the Priscilla Pond Flawn Child & Family Laboratory, Amy Bryan. 

Lindsay Smith recently graduated from the Retail Merchandising and Consumer Sciences Program and is currently working at Forty Five Ten in Dallas as a Retail Coordinator for Women's Ready-to-Wear. 

The Division of Textiles and Apparel has developed a strong internship program over the last 30 years, and, here, undergraduate Allie Chicoine reveals what she learned when dropped into a photo shoot in Austin. 

The Historical Textiles and Apparel Collection of the School of Human Ecology at the University of Texas at Austin presents their third exhibit of the year.

At Ralph Lauren in New York City!

The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) has ranked the University Texas at Austin among the top 10 universities worldwide in three College of Natural Sciences subjects: Family Studies (#7), Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications (#1), and Mathematics, Applied (#5).

Synthesis—the theme of this year's fashion show—illustrates how the innovative designs and diverse talents of 22 students are woven into a cohesive unit that reflects relationships formed over time in Gearing Hall. This year's synthesis of fabric, effort and ideas debuts on April 19^th at the Frank Erwin Center.

Kristina Kieu, TXA Fashion Merchandising student, recently interned as a Production Assistant with Open Arms, a small contract manufacturing company based in Austin.

Korean-inspired wedding dresses, camouflage leisure wear cut for women, ballerina dresses highlighted with programmable lights: this year's fashion show, Synthesis, builds on the designs of 22 textiles and apparel seniors from the University of Texas at Austin. The annual show, organized by the University Fashion Group, is the nation's largest fashion show at a university, attracting over 5,000 Texans to campus to see the collections, active wear, bridal gowns, and evening wear.

Textiles and Apparel (TXA) graduates are doing amazing things! We sat down with recent  TXA graduate (class of 2016) Denise Chavez to talk about her current position at URBN, living in New York and how the TXA program helped her get there. 

Fusion, the University of Texas at Austin student fashion show, features designs from 24 senior students in the University Fashion Group. Industry professionals Carla McDonald, Patty Hoffpauir, Sergio Guadarrama, Lance Avery Morgan, Megan Summerville, Linda Asaf and Gail Chovan will award prizes.

The University Fashion Group proudly presents the 2014 UT fashion show, Spectrum. Spectrum, a powerful and all-encompassing word, fits this year's senior design students perfectly. By encompassing each individual's work as a piece of the overall spectrum of collections, all the designs come to together in a fluid, powerful way that displays a new wave of technical and creative design skills.

Watch out, Project Runway! The 2013 Fashion Show, "Transcend," produced by the University Fashion Group, hit the runways Thursday, April 18, at the Frank Erwin Center. The annual event is a showcase for the nearly 120 original garments created by textiles and apparel students nearing completion of the apparel design program. (Watch a teaser of the show, produced by radio-television-film student Andrea Macias. Or check out The Alcalde's slideshow.)

​This week's 2012 Fashion Show, Contour, was pulled together by the University Fashion Group and designing seniors from the University of Texas at Austin's Textiles and Apparel program.

At age 90, New York style icon Iris Apfel is perhaps the college's most unusual professor.

Students are using sustainable fabrics and embracing technology, designing digital prints, creating laser-cut patterns and working with textured knits.

Students from the Division of Textiles and Apparel in the School of Human Ecology will debut their original fashion designs at the 2010 Annual Fashion Show entitled "High Voltage."