What is now the School of Information was founded in to educate information professionals. While our name and degrees have changed a few times since then, we have always balanced the values of information access as a human and social benefit with the intellectual and technical skills needed to lead developments in the Information Age.
Today the iSchool is a premier research and education program for the 21st century field of information. Our program is consistently ranked among the top programs in Information Studies internationally. Approximately graduate students study in our master's , Certificate of Advanced Study , and doctoral programs. The iSchool also launched a new undergraduate program in Informatics with the first class of freshmen beginning in Fall The school boasts more than twenty world-class faculty who come from diverse, interdisciplinary backgrounds, a range of joint appointees from across The University of Texas at Austin, and numerous adjunct faculty selected for their expertise and leadership in information research, instruction, and service.
The iSchool is involved in several major programmatic collaborations with national and international organizations as well as at The University of Texas at Austin. Beyond these efforts, iSchool faculty, staff, and students collaborate with colleagues across the university, with firms, non-profit agencies, and governmental organizations in Austin and beyond, and with researchers and institutions worldwide.
By , UT teams had been called Longhorns for 16 years but had never had a live mascot, except for the dog named Pig. Stephen Pinckney, a law school grad, wanted to change that. That year he was working for the U. Long may he reign! But the editor left no clues about why his name was Bevo. In the century since, several theories have surfaced. The story involving Aggies, a football score, and branding has been debunked. Shortly afterward, when rumors began circulating that the Aggies planned to kidnap Bevo, the longhorn was removed to a ranch 60 miles west of Austin.
The steer was all but forgotten until the end of the war in November It was a less sentimental time. Pitts, were making shadow puppets by the light of a lamp on their dorm room wall when they discovered that a hand with the index finger and pinkie held out made a pretty good longhorn head. Clark introduced the sign at a pep rally that week, and it was an immediate hit.
Unbeknownst to the innocent Texas college kids, the sign had long been considered vulgar in other parts of the world, such as Europe, and the dean of students was none too pleased by the new tradition. But it was too late. There was no stopping an idea whose time had come. No, it is not true that albino squirrels bring good luck.
But the cream-colored squirrels that are seen on campus are not albinos, which would be pure white and have pink eyes. Rather, they are simply a blond variation of the fox squirrels we see everywhere. Fireworks were introduced as a standard finale to the ceremony in They are launched from numerous platforms, both on top of the Main Building below the Tower, and from the observation deck at the top of the Tower.
Whether seated on the Main Mall or watching from a distant part of the city, the effect is one that will stay with you for a lifetime. Revisit the historic Commencement Address from Michael S. Skip to main content. History and Traditions. History commencement-history. It is the official start of Longhorn life. Smokey the Cannon. Smokey the Cannon was built in by the university's mechanical engineering laboratory in answer to the traditional gunshot blasts heard at Texas-Oklahoma football games.
Smokey, traditionally operated by the Texas Cowboys student organization, and firing four gauge shotgun shells simultaneously, is discharged every time the Longhorn football team scores and at the end of winning games.
Tradition has it that any student who sees a white squirrel on the way to a test will get an A. The squirrels are not albinos but rather white fox squirrels, with brown eyes and not pink. The Forty Acres is the nickname for the campus of The University of Texas at Austin because that was the size of the original tract set aside by the state.
Those 40 acres formed a square that today is defined by 21st Street, Guadalupe Street, 24th Street and Speedway. Connect with UT Austin. Subscribe to our newsletter.
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