PROGRAM DATES: May 6 to 27, 2026 INFO SESSION: Tuesday, October 7, 2025 (3:00PM to 4:00PM) in Flawn Academic Center (FAC), Room 430 APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, November 7, 2025, 11:59PM (Central) UT-Austin’s Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project is now accepting applications from UT undergraduate…
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The Strauss-Clements Intelligence Studies Project of The University of Texas at Austin announces the 11th annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. The winner of the “Inman Award” will receive a cash prize of $5,000,…
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At a ceremony held in Austin, TX on January 27, 2025, LBJ School Dean JR DeShazo installed Professor of Practice and Intelligence Studies Project Senior Fellow James “Paul” Pope as the Lloyd Hackler Chair in Ethical Leadership. The Hackler Chair has been vacant since…
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**INFORMATION SESSION – October 21, 2024 at 5:00PM in UT-Austin’s Flawn Academic Center (FAC) 430.** UT-Austin’s Strauss-Clements Intelligence Studies Project is now accepting applications from UT undergraduate students of all academic disciplines to participate in its 2025 Texas Intelligence Academy…
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For the 2024-25 academic year, three Strauss Center for International Security and Law Brumley “Next Generation” Fellows will be conducting research in the coming academic year under the direction of Intelligence Studies Project fellows. Caitlin Davis Caitlin Davis is a…
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The recipient of this year’s “Inman Award” is Jemima Baar, a recent Master of International Affairs graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Her paper, Cold War Confrontations: US Intelligence Insights and Policy Responses to the Sino-Soviet…
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- Bobby R. Inman, former Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
"There has been far too little focus in the academic world on the Intelligence Community and the critical role it plays in our country's national security. The Intelligence Studies Project will position the University of Texas at Austin to be a leading academic center on U.S. intelligence."
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- Robert M. Gates, former Secretary of Defense and Director of Central Intelligence
"The Intelligence Studies Project at UT Austin - anchored by the Inman Chair - will allow new generations of young people to learn from and about Admiral Inman, and to learn about intelligence: its many disciplines and dimensions, its structure, how it operates, its strengths and weaknesses, how it is used, and how it can be improved."