Troy Lane, chief of police at the University of Wyoming, has been named the chief of police for the UT Police Department. Lane, who has more than sixteen years of campus law enforcement experience, will begin June 25. Lane replaces former chief Gloria Graham, who left in January 2012 to become assistant chief of police
Three UT students will be spending their summer abroad, immersed in foreign language and culture, all thanks to a US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship. Lisa Dicker, junior in political science, will study Chinese in China; Jeremy Pearson, graduate student in history, will study Arabic in Jordan; and Kenneth Pearson, senior in electrical engineering,
UT’s EcoCAR 2 team won sixth place overall at the EcoCAR 2012 Competition in Los Angeles. The fifteen universities competing in EcoCAR 2 gathered for six days of judged competition in May with $100,000 in prize money up for grabs. The team also won second place for the mechanical presentation.
White Americans’ heads are getting bigger. That’s according to research by forensic anthropologists at UT. Researchers examined 1,500 skulls dating back to the mid-1800s through the mid-1980s. They noticed US skulls have become larger, taller, and narrower as seen from the front and faces have become significantly narrower and higher.