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Peter T. Flawn - ICES Board of Visitors

Peter Flawn Peter T. Flawn retired as President of The University of Texas at Austin in 1985 and was named President Emeritus by the Board of Regents, one of only two officials to be given the title "emeritus." He received his Ph.D. in geology from Yale University in 1951 and is prominent as a geologist, educator, author, and consultant. He served in the U. S. Army Air Corps during World War II. During his six-year term as president, sponsored research awards grew to $100 million, and five new research buildings were built. The number of National Merit Scholars was second only to Harvard, and eighteen UT graduate programs were ranked in the top twenty. The University of Texas became the subject of favorable articles in Forbes, Time, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. With a reputation as a good bargain, enrollment swelled to 48,000. The Academic Center was renamed the Peter T. Flawn Academic Center in his honor in 1985.