The University of Texas at Austin Thomas Jesús Garza is University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Director of the Texas Language Center, and…

Dr. H. W. Brands attended Stanford University where he studied history and mathematics. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific…

Since 1993, Diana Foss has guided urban wildlife policy as part of the Wildlife Diversity Program of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. She also coordinates the Houston Area Bat…

Tommy Gregory is Houston Airport Systems' (HAS) public art program director and curator. Mr. Gregory directs public art commissions, acquisitions, maintenance, and conservation for George Bush Intercontinental Airport, William P.…

Mr. Gonzalez is the Houston urban conservation programs manager at the Nature Conservancy in Texas, former community conservation director at Katy Prairie Conservancy, and co-founder of the Coastal Prairie Partnership.…

Beth White, one of the nation’s leading urban park planners. In June 2016, Ms. White joined the Houston Parks Board as president and CEO to lead the organization in implementing and…

Larry Rachleff (1944-2022) was the Walter Kris Hubert Professor of Orchestral Conducting and Music Director of the Shepherd School Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. He also served as music director of…

Susan Lorette Dunn is artist teacher of opera studies in the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. She studied at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane, Australia, graduating…

Howard Pollack is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music and Division Chair of Musicology at the University of Houston, where he has taught since 1987.  He has published…

Michael Guidry, curator of public art, came to UH in 2005 after serving more than nine years as the assistant registrar and curator of traveling exhibitions for the New Orleans…