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Bauer Announces Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center For Entrepreneurship A nationally ranked center at the C. T. Bauer College of Business is continuing its tradition of excellence with a new name. Formerly the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, the center will now be known as the Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship. The center’s namesakes are longstanding and highly respected members of the Houston community who have made countless contributions to benefit the University of Houston and Bauer College. Wolff received his bachelor of business administration degree from Bauer College in 1953. He is now chairman and CEO of Star Furniture, a Berkshire Hathaway company, and a member of the newly formed Dean’s Executive Board at Bauer College. Wolff also serves as chairman and president of the University of Houston College of Business Foundation. In 1998, Wolff was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Bauer College, and in 2002, he was named a Distinguished Alumni member of the University of Houston. “Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff are two of Houston’s most generous civic leaders and important members of the Bauer College family,” Dean Arthur D. Warga said. “They believe in our vision of teaching our students to build businesses that suit their own interests, talents and goals. They are committed to ensuring our entrepreneurship program’s growth and success.” In October, Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review ranked the program No. 2 among 370 of the nation’s undergraduate business schools. The support from the Wolffs will allow the program to maintain the momentum from that recognition, Warga said. “Their commitment ensures that our entrepreneurship program, which began more than a decade ago, will continue to be vital to the economy of Houston, a place where entrepreneurs thrive.” Bauer’s entrepreneurship program
began in 1993 when its founder William Sherrill taught a single
course in the subject. The program now offers undergraduate candidates
the theoretical and practical background needed to create and
manage their own entrepreneurial ventures as they major
in Entrepreneurship. Rudley Named Sole Finalist for TSU Presidency Dr. John Rudley, the University of Houston’s vice president for administration and finance, was named the sole finalist for the Texas Southern University presidency. Rudley recently served as interim University of Houston System chancellor and UH president. Texas law requires that the TSU Board of Regents give public notice at least 21 days prior to a meeting in which final action is taken on the employment of a university chancellor or president. If approved, Rudley will become the eleventh president of Texas Southern University.Arts Off to Roaring Start in 2008 The University of Houston’s arts programs are roaring at the beginning of 2008. To kick off the spring semester, UH is hosting the debut of an ambitious multi-media exhibition and a stage favorite with a brand new sound. Arts highlights over the next month include: Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of UH Feb. 6. In collaboration with UH’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and in conjunction with the “Artists Up Close” series, Blaffer also will host a Contemporary Salon at 6 p.m., Feb. 13. For additional details or museum hours, visit www.blaffergallery.org. School of Theatre & Dance,
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Bertolt Brecht’s classic play takes the stage at UH’s Lyndall Finley Wortham Theatre with a new twist. Augmenting this tale of three gods searching for one good woman is a new score composed by and performed by Two-Star Symphony. 8 p.m., Feb. 15, 16, 22, 23; 2 p.m., Feb. 24. For details on other School of Theatre & Dance
events, visit www.theatredance.uh.edu, and for information on
Mitchell Center events, visit www.mitchellcenterforarts.org. For the latest news from UH, visit www.uh.edu/news-events/. |
