Yvonne Marquez

The UT Women’s Rugby Club captain died in Kansas City from complications of a head injury last week.

Mexican opera composer Daniel Catán died over the weekend in Austin while working on a new piece for the Butler School of Music. He was 62.

The Lonestar 4 supercomputer was dedicated at a ceremony at the Pickle Research Campus on Monday.

The Department of Rhetoric and Writing at UT will help revamp Southwestern University’s writing program, thanks to a $720,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

  Students wrote in colorful chalk on the plaza outside the Communication building Monday morning to kick off College of Communication Week.

After the election of the first-ever female Student Government president and vice president, a week-long campaign to promote women’s issues on campus kicked off in Gregory Plaza on Monday.

Talent is lacking in the Democratic Party, and it is up to the future generation to change it, a political writer told a group of about 50 students at a University Democrats meeting Wednesday.

A design graduate student hopes people will use a more natural alternative to environmentally harmful plates and containers.

Instead of talking about space, a retired NASA director shared some of his Earth experiences Monday to teach a group of about 75 UT faculty and students lessons in life and leadership.  

Sociology senior Michelle Saenz credits Moon Draper, her rhetoric of psychology lecturer, for helping her be a competent human being.

A new book by nine UT Elementary School teachers and administrators shares two ways to improve teaching: communication and interaction between students and teachers in low-income and high-minority schools.  

More than 100 union and community supporters marched to the Capitol from the Texas chapter of the AFL-CIO headquarters on Lavaca and 11th streets to send a message of solidarity to public employees in Wisconsin.

Students and faculty watched a historic "Jeopardy!" match Monday between two human champions and a machine made possible, in part, by the research of three UT professors.

The campus-wide special election to overhaul all three branches of Student Government ends today.

The Austin Technology Incubator’s UT branch and the State Energy Conservation Office are accepting applicants for two new clean energy incubators at Texas universities.

This generation of American children is expected to have a shorter lifespan than their parents because of their unhealthy food choices and sedentary lifestyles, said several childhood obesity experts Tuesday.

Texas could be barred from administering some of its health care programs if it does not have an operating health insurance exchange for the unemployed and underinsured that passes a 2013 federal review, said Billy Millwee, the Texas director of Medicaid on Tuesday.

Emmanuel Ladouceur was on the bottom floor of a three-story building with his family when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti last January. A goalkeeper for a local soccer team, Ladouceur lost his parents when the building collapsed, and only he and his sister survived. After the loss of his left arm in the quake, he is determined to continue playing the sport.

Two new media experts presented a world of transmedia storytelling — a multiplatform way of storytelling with each individual media telling a different part of the story but creating a cohesive narrative when combined.

Austin residents passed a $90 million bond to improve roadways and construct bike lanes and sidewalks on Tuesday.

As students listened to Pamela Whitenack, director of the Hershey Community Archives, they popped the famous tiny chocolate kisses into their mouths.