Southwestern University had an estimated direct economic impact of more than $90.5 million on the Georgetown-Williamson County area in 2004-05, according to figures released this month by the university’s Office of Fiscal Affairs.

Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey governor who was selected by President George W. Bush to chair the 9/11 Commission, will give the 2006 Shilling Lecture at Southwestern University. The lecture will be held March 31 at 2 p.m. in the Robertson Center.

Stephen Aechternacht, formerly a host for KMFA radio in Austin, has decided to donate his CD collection to Southwestern University’s A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library Center.

Williamson County may get its first transitional housing thanks to the efforts of students at Southwestern University.

For Southwestern University junior Brandon Boland and biology professor Romi Burks, this Christmas is going to be anything but typical.

About a dozen faculty members from Dillard will use technology available at Southwestern to recreate course materials lost in the disaster and develop new online courses that can be offered to students regardless of their location.

Volunteering as an emergency medical technician (EMT) in her hometown of Spring, Texas, Southwestern University junior Melanie Stanzer saw firsthand the pressure that EMTs can be under.

The Cullen family of Houston has been selected to receive the 2005 President’s Philanthropy Award from Southwestern University. The award will be presented at a dinner on campus Nov. 5. The theme of the dinner is “Transforming Texas, Changing the World.”

“A World Away: Cultural Exchange Symposium” marks Southwestern University’s first Intercultural Experience Symposium. The symposium will take place Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005, in the Red and Charlene McCombs Campus Center.

The competition, hosted by the Texas Independent College Fund (TICF), will include 18 of Texas’ small, independent (private) colleges and universities.

The study will focus on a device used to conduct strength training while in the water.

Southwestern is the first university in Texas to offer a free bicycle program.

Katrina donation to Texas annual conference made in his honor

Stanley Hauerwas, the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at the Duke Divinity School, will present this year’s Willson Lectures on September 29, 2005.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has approved an appropriation of $100,000 to Southwestern University to support a collaborative leadership and student exchange project between Dillard University, Huston-Tillotson University, Morehouse College, Rhodes College and Southwestern.

Jessica Guerrero will explore the country and culture of Japan as part of “U.S./Japan: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Disability and Volunteerism Exchange Program,” sponsored by Mobility International USA.

Marvin Henderson ‘41 won the United States Tennis Association doubles championship with his partner Jerry Joyce back in 1993 when he was not yet 75. This year he found sweet success on the courts again as he won the USTA 85s indoor national championship in singles play at the ripe young age of 84–his first singles championship.

Perkins-Prothro Foundation of Wichita Falls, Texas, has announced a gift of $3.5 million to Southwestern University in support of a new learning center.

This past Sunday, the Southwestern University Men’s Lacrosse team rallied to defeat the University of Texas-Arlington in a 10-8 come from behind victory.

Southwestern University alumna Genevieve Caldwell, Class of 1942, has donated $75,000 to her alma mater for the creation of the Genevieve Caldwell Endowed Scholarship.

Southwestern senior Margaret Ritzert has been elected State Chair of the Texas Federation of College Republicans, the governing body of Texas’ 32 chapters of College Republicans.

In the 2005-2006 academic year, Southwestern University will implement a pilot Living/Learning Community program for several of its First-Year Seminar courses.

On Tuesday, April 19, 2005, the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) will welcome 60 undergraduate students from across the nation to Capitol Hill to present the results of their independent research in science, engineering and mathematics.

Other higher education institutions recently granted full membership include Yale, Brown, Ithaca and Brandeis.

Twelve Southwestern University undergraduate students presented research findings at the American Chemical Society’s National Meeting this month in San Diego, Calif.

Named “head of his class” in social robotics by Science, Hanson merges machine intelligence and figurative art into realistic robot faces dubbed the “most advanced in the world” by the BBC.

Deaf and queer performance artist, Terry Galloway, will perform Out All Night and Lost My Shoes in Southwestern University’s Alma Thomas Theater at 8 PM on Thursday, March 31.

In a season that produced SU’s best-ever regular season conferece record, along with a No. 1 seed at the SCAC tournament, head coach Bill Raleigh captured well-deserved Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Coach of the Year honors, while junior Aaron Bowser was named as the SCAC Player of the Year.

Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan, will be Southwestern’s 2005 Roy and Margaret Shilling lecturer. She will speak at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, March 10, in the Corbin J. Robertson Center on the Southwestern Campus.

Higher education is big business and Georgetown gets its piece of the pie, thanks to the presence of Southwestern University.

Former longtime Southwestern University Head Baseball Coach Jim Mallon was honored by the Round Rock Express as a recipient of the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Latinos Unidos and Amigas will sponsor the first Latino Heritage Symposium at Southwestern University during the weekend of March 4-5.

Southwestern University accounted for an estimated direct economic impact of $91,036,139 on the Georgetown-Williamson County area during 2003-04, as revealed in an annual analysis from the University’s Office of Fiscal Affairs.