Jody Serrano

The Sunset Advisory Commission directed the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to petition federal lawmakers to allow the state to advertise the B-On-Time Loan Program. 

Hundreds of protestors wore orange at the Texas Capitol Sunday to oppose SB 5, a bill that would implement some of the harshest abortion regulations nationwide.

Rick Perry vetoed more than 20 bills Friday night.

Orientation is a rite of passage for new UT students. The Daily Texan sent a reporter and photographer to spend 12 hours at orientation.

On the cusp of possibly losing $105 million research dollars under the across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration, UT System officials are working to find alternative options to fund research. 

In Dallas, the UT system hosted a conference Tuesday on higher education research in America.

After four hours of interrogation Monday, senators unaminously approved three of Gov. Rick Perry's nominees to the UT System Board of Regents. 

The Daily Texan sent a reporter and photographer to spend the 13 hours with the Class of 2013. Here is the story.

The debate on UT's top 10 percent rule will open on the national stage in October when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas.

Bill Powers to speak to orientation participants for first time in years; changes in line with the President's Student Advisory Council.

An unsubstantiated report claiming the UT System Board of Regents may have plans to fire President William Powers Jr. on Wednesday night invoked a series of responses.

Scandals and disqualifications shook student government elections in colleges across the state this year.

In The Works, the alternative pop and soul band is made up of five men, three of whom attend UT.

The Daily Texan interviewed Joel Simmons, newly elected GSA vice president.

Former Senate of College Councils President Carisa Nietsche will spend the next few weeks helping to transition the new leaders to their positions.

Students around campus will raise a rainbow-colored flag this week in efforts to promote a stronger and safer LGBT community on campus.

Outgoing SG partners concerned about continuation of projects; will help new members transition.

The new Student Government General Assembly took their place as the elected student voice of the University in its first meeting Tuesday.

Lawler discusses goals he will pursue if elected student body president.

After weeks of deliberation over the disqualification of candidates Gardner and Guevara, the SG Judicial Court gave the final word.

The candidates claimed the ESB violated procedure when evaluating a complaint against their campaign.

Nimmer said he does not know if Gardner and Guevara plan to appeal but would not be surprised if they did.

The UT Student Government presidential elections will occur next week on March 28 and 29.

Students will now be able to find reservation information for more than 550 indoor and outdoor spaces using online database “Find A Space.”

A suspect has not yet been identified and no arrests have been made.

The student body may be one step closer to electing its Student Government leaders these next few weeks.

The temporary restraining order issued on the Student Government presidential elections has been extended to March 27.

Shree Bose took part in the Austin Forum on Science, Technology & Society Tuesday night.

A Travis County judge has postponed the Student Government elections for at least two weeks.

Madison Gardner and Antonio Guevara will be unable to reenter the Student Government race.

Madison Gardner and Antonio Guevara were disqualified for associating their campaign with a candidate in another race.

The board disqualified Desai’s campaign Monday afternoon for violating the election code and committing fraud.

Madison Gardner and Antonio Guevara are one of five executive alliances running for student body president and vice president.

The University’s efforts to comply with new anti-tobacco requirements from its funding providers has sparked debate.

A blanket of sleet may be the only ice Austinites will see fall from the sky this season.

Students seeking a position in Student Government may face a pricey challenge in the 2012 general elections.

An unknown hacker group infiltrated Stratfor’s systems in December and obtained confidential information.

Students will be able to voice their opinions on tuition increases and funding cuts

A new rule will establish a consistent procedure.

Travis county experienced abnormal amounts of rain and hail from a storm system from the Pacific Tuesday.

UT's new program offers ways to complete degrees with more flexibility. 

 Extreme Makover: Home Edition helps out those who lost their homes in Bastrop.

The Texas A&M University experiences their third bomb threat since 2006.

Metcalfe is known for building the first Ethernet as a tool for a lab to access a high speed, high quality printer.

Reclaimed water can take over jobs like irrigation and toilet flushing that we use drinking water for.

The audition took 30 seconds. Three days later, Barnes found out she got the job.

Warren walked around asking people to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project.

Kurz said although there is an ethical debate surrounding Paterno’s actions, students still want him to stay.

The names darmstadtium (Ds), roentgenium (Rg) and copernicium (Cn) for elements 111, 112 and 113, respectively.

The University will now offer the UT Mail service to its more than 450,000 alumni free of charge

Local businesses may be negatively affected by not being able to show the UT-Kansas football game this Saturday.

Many students know they have not engaged in safe sex practices and simply do not want to know if they’ve contracted a STI. 

UT President William Powers Jr. presented the check to Austin Community Foundation to aid victims of the recent wildfires.

It took Sheng nearly three years to find enough athletes willing to have their picture taken and turn them into a collection. 

The Young Texans for Excellence in Higher Education formed in response to the June efforts to reform the higher education system.

Members gathered to express their opinions about corporate greed and political corruption.

Hundreds of UT students and members of the community gathered on Wednesday evening at the LBJ Library.

APD will have extra police officers on duty inside and outside of ACL, handling everything from parking to drunkenness.

On the outside, Hayden Winkler appeared to be in top condition: He was lean and muscular, he exercised daily and he led a healthy lifestyle. No one knew his heart wouldn’t beat more than 30 beats per minute, that his hair was falling out or that beneath his clothes, he could see the outline of every bone in his body.

Journalist Laura Ling has spent her career serving as a window for readers into dangerous situations, including government oppression in Myanmar and the inner workings of Mexico’s drug war.

Catrina Hyde remembers seeing a mother reading to her daughter in a visitation room at Child Protective Services in Austin. When she looked closer, the scene held one glaring problem: The book the mother read from had several pages torn out and colored in.

One week after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake that destroyed most of Haiti, exercise science sophomore Taylor Lackey remembers switching on the television to catch a “60 Minutes” report. He saw images of Haiti reduced to a pile of rubble and hundreds of dead bodies on the street. By the end of the special, Lackey said he felt God’s call to help Haiti.

At first sight, Burrito Factory in Dobie Mall does not seem to be any different from any other traditional Tex-Mex fast-food joint. Juan Perez, however, points out one major difference.  

Former President Jimmy Carter addressed more than 200 students and community members at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium on Tuesday night about the situation in the Middle East, his own and other presidencies and his hopes for the country’s future.

More than two-thirds of college and university financial aid administrators faced a moderate or severe resource shortage, according to a recent survey by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

This week’s biting cold and frozen precipitation are quite unusual for Central Texas, said meteorologists.

About a dozen protesters held signs in front of the Tower on Monday morning to demonstrate against fast-food chain Chick-fil-A’s sponsorship of a pro-“traditional family” organization, as well as its presence on campus.

At first glance, an energy drink looks like an advertisement for superheroes and villains, declaring that they “give you wings” and “unleash the beast.”

Last night at 12:01 a.m., more than 200,000 people all over the globe booted up their computers and typed the first of 50,000 words of their novels into a blank document.

In this podcast, Bobby Blanchard, Christine Ayala, Jody Serrano and special guest Jacob Kerr discuss the UT regents, MyEdu and ESPN's X Games. They also get off topic for a little bit and discuss the royal baby and tea.