The Austin City Council passed a resolution on July 18, modifying Austin’s Downtown Density Bonus Program, which was established in 2014 to promote the development of high-rise buildings to support affordable...
Erika Pernis, Senior News Reporter
• August 1, 2024
A Dallas-based realty company is continuing its efforts to revitalize the East 6th Street neighborhood in downtown Austin.
Stream Realty Partners, among others, announced plans to redevelop the...
Riley Walsh, General News Reporter
• August 1, 2024
A $108,000 grant meant to support food-insecure students in Austin is likely to be renewed at upcoming City Council meetings later this month and will last through the next fiscal year.
The College...
UT’s Texas-Soton team is among 29 groups that qualified for the XPRIZE Wildfire Autonomous Wildfire Response competition, according to a July 15 press release. The four-year competition, with a prize...
Laura Rivera, General News Reporter
• July 30, 2024
UT engineers shared their findings on a more efficient way to store carbon in a research paper published July 8 in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. The method can be used in more parts of the...
Civil rights must be protected and expanded, President Joe Biden said Monday during his keynote address at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library’s celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Civil...
The Texas Workforce Commission reported earlier this month the unemployment rate in the Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area rose from May 2024 to June 2024.
The unemployment rate rose...
Evelyn Conway, General News Reporter
• July 29, 2024
Evan Williams, a Butler School of Music alumnus, recently earned a prized position with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.
Williams’ audition for the National Symphony took place...
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit claiming UT uses unlawful admissions policies, according to the July 15 order.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled the University’s revised policies are lawful...
The U.S. National Science Foundation selected UT’s Texas Advanced Computing Center, investing $457 million, to become the Leadership-Class Computing Facility to lead national research projects, according...
Laura Rivera, General News Reporter
• July 26, 2024
MoveOutATX, an annual event for students to donate unwanted items, is set to take place every day from July 27-31 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in West Campus. Started in 2017, the event aims to help students...
The College of Pharmacy is in the beginning stages of creating a collaborative program called Texas PharmCare, which will help combat barriers and allow pharmacists to easily access medical information...
