The Archer Center

2004 News and Highlights

11/18/2004

Archer Center graduates 100th Bill Archer Fellow. The Fall 2004 Class of Bill Archer Fellows marked the eighth semester of the program and saw the passage of an important milestone. With the graduation of the Fall class, the Center has now matriculated more than 100 undergraduate students. Click here to see the fall 2004 class of fellows and where they interned in Washington, D.C.

8/26/2004

The Archer Center bids farewell to Katherine J. Murray, outgoing director of the Archer Center. Kat visited with friends and supporters at the August DC Texas Exes Thirsty Thursday sponsored by the Archer Fellow Alumni Association and the Archer Center Junior Advisory Board. The event raised over $700 that will be put toward scholarships for future fellows. Kat will be heading west to begin a Ph.D. in Communication at Stanford University and can always be reached at kat@alumni.utexas.net.

8/16/2004

The Archer Center welcomes Jenifer Sarver as its new director. Ms. Sarver joins the Center from the Office of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison where she served as the Senior Writer. Ms. Sarver holds two degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and serves as the co-chair of American University's Young Women Leaders' Board and the secretary of the Texas State Society.

7/6/2004

Patsy Thomassen, with Entrecorps, closed out the 4th Annual Archer Center Summer Speakers series with a conversation about persuasion and lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C.

6/29/2004

Ken Apfel, former Social Security Commissioner and currently a professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, spoke to a crowd of 30 current and former students at the Archer Center. Mr. Apfel spoke of work in Washington as well as his interaction with efforts to get more ties between UT and D.C. Mr. Apfel sits on the Archer Center Advisory Board.

6/23/2004

Dr. William Glade, economics professor from UT Austin, teaches the last session of his D.C.-based accelerated course in Cultural Diplomacy. Carlos Mosca, Sachin Dalal, T.J. Hill, Tony Peterson, and Kedron Touvell, all undergraduate students from the University of Texas at Austin, were the participants of this first class.

6/22/2004

Sidney Weintraub, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, speaks to LBJ interns, LBJ alumni, and Archer Fellow alumni as part of the Summer Speakers Series.

6/16/2004

Sam Strauss, UT Austin junior, has been named the Fall 2004 Jeffrey J. Dye Scholar. This scholarship honors one Archer Fellow each semester with a scholarship and mentor during his or her time in D.C.

6/15/2004

Henry Gandy, of the Duberstein Group, speaks about his time in the Reagan White House and his role on the LBJ Advisory Board as part of the Summer Speakers Series.

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