Largest Grant in History of College of Education Awarded to Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk
The University of Texas at Austin's Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk has been awarded a $20 million, five-year grant by the Institute of Education Sciences, the largest ever received by the College of Education.

The Write Thing: Writing Teachers Find Their Inner Author with COE Program
The Heart of Texas Writing Project exists to remind every second grader with a poet inside and high school teacher who wants to pen her memoirs that writing's for everybody and good writers are made, not born.

Educational Psychologist Diane Schallert Wins College's Top Teaching Award
Dr. Diane Schallert has been honored with the Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest accolade given by the college for excellence in teaching. Schallert, who's been on faculty for more than 30 years, teaches graduate Psychology of Learning and Psycholinguistics courses and advanced seminars on discourse comprehension and research on writing.

Men, Depression, Psychotherapy the Focus of National Conference
Venus and Mars in Therapy, Anger Busting 101 and Ethical Issues in Working with Men are a few of the topics to be addressed by national men's health experts at the 2nd Annual National Psychotherapy with Men Conference, hosted this weekend by The University of Texas at Austin's College of Education.

Dr. Sally Ride Keynote Speaker at UTeach Institute Annual Conference
Teams from UTeach replication sites, universities interested in replicating UTeach, and donors and foundations will be at The University of Texas at Austin today through May 27 for UTeach Institute's Annual Conference.

One of Fortune International's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business to Speak at NISOD Conference
Marjorie Scardino, the first female CEO of a top 100 United Kingdom company, will kick of this year’s National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence, which begins May 30 at the Austin Convention Center.

Holzaepfel Honored With National Advising Award
Sue Holzaepfel, a senior academic counselor in The College of Education, has been awarded the Outstanding Advising Certificate of Merit by the National Academic Advising Association.

Growing Up in Kenya,Willy Kiptemboi Rotich Has Become a UT First
Born in the Rift River Valley of Kenya, the fifth of eight children, Willy Kiptemboi Rotich never dreamt as a boy he'd grow up to live in the United States, be a poet and receive a doctor's degree from one of the top research universities in the country.

Texas Teachers to Learn How Program Improves Graduation Rates for Students
Educators from 17 school districts around Texas are meeting at The University of Texas at Austin to learn how to improve graduation and dropout rates for their Spanish-speaking English language learners through a program that helps them transition more successfully into public schools.

Smuts and Coffman Garner Presidents Outstanding Staff Awards
College of Education staff members Patty Coffman and Regina Smuts have been selected from an array of campus-wide candidates for The University of Texas at Austin's President's Outstanding Staff Award.