Randy L. Diehl
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The Real Diehl: A Dean Reflects on His Mission
Randy Diehl is a morning person. Rising at 4 a.m., he writes a few emails catches up on his reading and takes a brisk walk before heading to campus to lead a college with 22 academic departments, three branches of the ROTC and more than 500 faculty members. Despite long days and a demanding schedule,…
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Meeting Today’s Budget Realities While Building for the Future
As you read this issue of Life & Letters, state lawmakers here in Austin continue to debate how to close an estimated $27 billion budget gap. The final spending plan they send to Gov. Rick Perry in the coming weeks will include cuts to almost every area of stategovernment, including higher education and TheUniversity of Texas at Austin. These are obviously difficult…
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Message From the Dean: Spring 2010
New Technology, Scholarly Discipline Help Advance World-Class Research As a psychology professor here at The University of Texas at Austin for the past 35 years, I’ve spent much of my career studying how the human brain perceives speech and language. And as a former department chair, I’ve also spent years trying to support colleagues whose…