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This year, Moody College unveiled updates to Walter Cronkite Plaza, including grass turf and a pergola with a retractable shade so students, faculty and staff can mingle and study in the space between Communication Buildings A and B and the William Randolph Hearst Student Media building. The transformation is the result of a gift from Moody College alumnus Richard Davis and his wife Leah and has been designated as Aaron Lincoln Davis Square.

This year, Moody College of Communication unveiled the new Woolfolk Center for Language Disorders Research, which aims to fundamentally change the way clinicians understand and treat language disorders by providing the first comprehensive, longitudinal database of diagnostic and prognostic features of language impairment in children and adults. The center was established through the estate of Elizabeth Carrow Woolfolk, a trailblazer in the field of communication and former head of the Moody College’s speech pathology and audiology program who died in 2022.

In 2022, Moody College of Communication unveiled the new Nelson Center for Brand and Demand Analytics, which will offer a first-of-its-kind credentialing program in brand and demand analytics that will give advertising and public relations students the skills to compete in today’s job market. Generous benefactors Jim and Mary Pat Nelson gave $5 million to establish the center, which will offer certificates for both Moody College and other UT Austin students.