UT Faculty of Nursing appoints Eun-Okay Im as new dean

Eun-Okay Im is about to grow to be the subsequent dean of the Faculty of Nursing beginning Sept. 1, following the announcement of her appointment on Monday. 

Im is at the moment the senior affiliate dean for analysis and innovation in addition to the Edith Folsom Honeycutt endowed chair within the Nell Hodgson Woodruff Faculty of Nursing at Emory College in Atlanta, Georgia. Previous to her time at Emory College, Im was an affiliate dean for analysis improvement and regulatory affairs, a College distinguished professor, the Mary T. Champagne professor within the Faculty of Nursing at Duke College and Marjorie O. Rendell endowed chair on the Faculty of Nursing on the College of Pennsylvania. She additionally served because the La Quinta Motor Inns Inc. centennial professor in Nursing at UT from 2007 to 2011. 

Im acquired a bachelor’s diploma in nursing and a grasp’s diploma in public well being from Seoul Nationwide College. She later acquired a grasp’s diploma and Ph.D. in nursing from the College of California, San Francisco. She taught programs in a variety of topics associated to the sector of nursing together with nursing idea, nursing philosophy and international ladies’s well being. 

Im’s personal work tends to concentrate on how technology-based interventions can be utilized to supply new sorts of care and he or she is called a pacesetter in international ladies’s well being analysis. 

“Dr. Im is an exemplary scientist and mentor who will foster continued innovation in nursing science,” Sharon Wooden, the chief vice chairman and provost of UT, stated in an e-mail. “By means of her management, she’s going to construct on the varsity’s successes whereas creating the subsequent technology of nurses and students.”

Im will succeed Alexa Stuifbergen who served as dean for 14 years.

Gov. Abbott appoints John Michael Austin as Pupil Regent for UT Board of Regents

Gov. Greg Abbott appointed John Michael Austin because the Pupil Regent for the College of Texas System Board of Regents earlier this month for a time period lasting from June 2023 to Might 2024. 

The Pupil Regent is a non-voting member of the Board of Regents who represents college students throughout all 13 establishments throughout the UT System. The governor appoints a pupil beneficial by the chancellor of the UT System. 

“The Pupil Regent serves as a voice for college kids by bringing a well-informed pupil perspective to the deliberations of the Board of Regents,” former Pupil Regent Neelesh Mutyala mentioned in a press release. “Having college students in thoughts on the forefront of each dialogue, the opposite regents listened attentively and significantly valued my enter.”

Austin is a third-year medical pupil on the College of Texas Well being Science Middle at San Antonio’s Lengthy College of Drugs. He beforehand served because the Legislative Director for the Chairman of Home Insurance coverage within the Texas Home of Representatives, the place he authored a invoice to enhance entry to insulin for uninsured Texans. Based on the UT System’s web site, Austin additionally served because the President of the Texas Medical Affiliation chapter at UT Well being Science Middle – San Antonio.

“My expertise as a legislative staffer taught me how digging into points and creating novel options might permit me to assist meaningfully enhance the lives of Texans,” Austin mentioned in a press release. “I view this regent position as one other alternative to each study and take what I’ve discovered to maximise the worth college students get from the UT system.”

As Pupil Regent, Austin mentioned he seems to be ahead to making sure college students get essentially the most worth out of their schooling at a UT establishment, whether or not by conserving tuition inexpensive or enhancing job prospects after commencement. 

“The mission I’m trying ahead to essentially the most entails studying extra about present efforts to facilitate pupil job placement after each graduate and undergraduate diploma completion and supporting elevated alternatives for co-ops and internships,” Austin mentioned. “I imagine the UT System is considered one of Texas’ greatest drivers of financial alternative, and serving to college students safe a job they’re pleased with after commencement is considered one of our most necessary markers of success.”

As a former Pupil Regent, Mutyala mentioned he recommends the Pupil Regent interact with college students all through the UT system and develop robust relationships with directors. 

“I’ve had an opportunity to speak to John Michael and know he’s a passionate chief who might be a powerful voice for all UT System college students,” Mutyala mentioned. “I look ahead to his upcoming service as our Pupil Regent.”

UT Faculty of Structure appoints Heather Woofter as new dean

Heather Woofter will take over as dean of UT’s Faculty of Structure on Aug. 15 following her appointment to the place Wednesday.

Woofter is a registered architect and the director of the Sam Fox Faculty’s Faculty of Structure and Graduate Faculty of Structure & City Design at Washington College in St. Louis. She is the proprietor and co-design principal of Axi:Ome, a design agency recognized for its growth and renovation of St. Louis’ Heart for Inventive Arts in partnership with Christner Architects, in addition to different initiatives within the cultural and humanities sectors. She serves in structure advisory roles to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the St. Louis Nice Rivers Greenway Brickline undertaking. 

Woofter holds a bachelor and grasp of structure from Virginia Tech and Harvard College and has served in instructing roles at each universities. In her present place at Washington College in St. Louis, she teaches the Practices course to first-year structure college students, in addition to superior undergraduate and graduate studios. 

Woofter’s twin identification as a professor and practising architect bridges the hole between trade and analysis.

“It’s an honor to hitch the UT-Austin neighborhood and the distinguished school, college students and employees within the Faculty of Structure,” Woofter stated to the College. “I sit up for future collaborations throughout campus and advancing our neighborhood imaginative and prescient in analysis and the design practices. UT-Austin is exclusive due to its breadth of remarkable allied disciplines throughout the Faculty of Structure, increasing the cultural discourse whereas tackling urgent problems with the up to date world.”

Woofter will succeed Michelle Addington as dean, who has served within the place since 2017.