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Moody Center makes debut

Moody Center makes debut

Christina Huang, Bo Espey, and Leila Saidane April 25, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 22, 2022 flipbook. After seven years in development, including about two years of construction, UT’s $375 million Moody Center made its debut...

Austinites can vote next week to decriminalize marijuana, end no-knock warrants

Austinites can vote next week to decriminalize marijuana, end no-knock warrants

Hannah Ortega, News Reporter April 25, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 22, 2022 flipbook. Austinites can cast their votes starting April 25 on a proposition that could end no-knock warrants and citations or arrests...

Tesla Gigafactory creates job opportunities, environmental concerns for surrounding community

Tesla Gigafactory creates job opportunities, environmental concerns for surrounding community

Morgan Severson, News Reporter April 25, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 22, 2022 flipbook. Tesla’s new Gigafactory in eastern Travis County could provide UT students and community members with nearly 10,000 jobs,...

Black Law and pre-law students reflect on Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation as first Black female supreme court justice

Black Law and pre-law students reflect on Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation as first Black female supreme court justice

Morgan Severson, News Reporter April 21, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 19, 2022 flipbook. Sitting in the breakroom at his internship for the U.S. House of Representatives, Jeremiah Baldwin said he felt emotional as...

Briscoe Center acquires archives from Richard Goodwin, speechwriter for JFK, LBJ

Briscoe Center acquires archives from Richard Goodwin, speechwriter for JFK, LBJ

Joelle DiPaolo, Senior News Reporter April 21, 2022

Former President Lyndon B. Johnson famously used the words “we shall overcome,” a phrase synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement, in a speech to Congress calling for voting rights in 1965. The drafts...

UT-Austin involved in creating world’s largest international dark sky reserve

UT-Austin involved in creating world’s largest international dark sky reserve

Katy Nelson, Senior News Reporter April 20, 2022

The world’s largest international dark sky reserve opened April 7 through a collaboration of entities that focus on environmental concerns and astronomy in West Texas, including UT’s McDonald Observatory. A...

UT-Austin students win national urban design competition

UT-Austin students win national urban design competition

Sonali Menon, News Reporter April 20, 2022

A team of UT graduate students from the McCombs School of Business and the School of Architecture won the 20th Annual Urban Land Institute/Gerald D. Hines Student Competition on April 7, earning UT its...

Coping with Corona study expands to include participant concerns about Russia-Ukraine war 

Coping with Corona study expands to include participant concerns about Russia-Ukraine war 

Madeline Duncan, News Reporter April 19, 2022

A global research initiative meant to examine how COVID-19 is affecting people’s mental health recently added the Russia-Ukraine war to its study in an effort to better understand how people respond...

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Student Engineering Council votes against creation of DEI committee

Hope Unger, Senior News Reporter April 19, 2022

On Monday, the Student Engineering Council voted against adding an amendment to form a new diversity, equity and inclusion board due to disagreements over the organization’s constitution.  The creation...

UT, Austin Public Health offer second COVID-19 booster shots for eligible individuals

UT, Austin Public Health offer second COVID-19 booster shots for eligible individuals

Leila Saidane, News Reporter April 18, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 15, 2022 flipbook. Immunocompromised individuals and people 50 and over can now get their second COVID-19 booster shot through University Health...

UT students wait hours for lecture with Crash Course co-founder Hank Green

UT students wait hours for lecture with Crash Course co-founder Hank Green

Hope Unger, News Reporter April 18, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 15, 2022 flipbook. Science content creator Hank Green visited the Texas Union on Thursday to talk to students about his journey in science and...

City auditor, UT working to finalize agreement to review Austin Water after February boil water notice

City auditor, UT working to finalize agreement to review Austin Water after February boil water notice

Morgan Severson, News Reporter April 18, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 15, 2022 flipbook. UT is finalizing an agreement with the city of Austin to review water operations after February marked the city’s third boil...

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