The Cain Foundation has awarded the Moody College of Communication UT3D program a grant to support a project to develop a virtual reality tour of The University of Texas at Austin campus.

Associate Professor Lee Ann Kahlor was awarded the Moody College of Communication Teaching Excellence Award on Dec. 5 after being nominated by students, vetted by fellow faculty members and a committee of past winners and approved by Interim Dean Jay M. Bernhardt.

The Belo Foundation of Dallas has awarded The University of Texas at Austin $1.5 million to create the Dallas Morning News Journalism Innovation Endowment, a fund to support digital innovation in the Moody College of Communication School of Journalism.

A panel of journalists and scholars convened Oct. 21 at the inaugural Denius Symposium on News Integrity, a new series launched by the School of Journalism and the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life, to stir conversation in the media about ethical values in the press.