Artists selected must undergo a competitive jurying process and are ultimately chosen by their peers based on career work. Dr. Juliet V. Garcia , President, has been elected Chairperson of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. Maria Ruth Torres , Administrative Services Operations Manager in the Office of the Vice President for Business Affairs, has been selected to serve on the Consumer Advisory Panel of the Brownsville Public Utilities Board. Dr. Marcia J. Barrett , Field Based Teaching Specialist in Kineisology, was appointed to a 3-year term for the Board of Directors of the South Texas chapter of the American Red Cross. Dr. Betsy Boze , Dean of the School of Business, is serving as President of the Texas Council of Collegiate Education in Business.
Deans representing schools of business from across the state serve on the council.
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding Anthropogenic Effects on Riparian Communities in Semi-Arid Environments from the Bureau of Economic Geology. The project will focus on the production of various digital maps involving a number of aspects of the natural environment. Charles Bevers , Director of Environmental Health and Safety, has received a grant from the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. LIGO is a facility dedicated to the detection of cosmic gravitational waves. Managed jointly by scientists and engineers at Caltech and MIT, LIGO will be part of a worldwide network of gravitational-wave detectors located in Australia, Germany, Italy, and Japan.