In 1957, UT alumna Barbara Smith Conrad thought she secured a lead role in a University opera production. Conrad was one of the first black students to attend UT in 1956 and possessed a natural talent...

The presidents of UT’s three student governance organizations selected U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison as the commencement speaker for the May 21 event on the Main Mall. The senator will speak at a...

Gov. Rick Perry proposed a four-year tuition freeze on higher education and challenged institutions to develop a $10,000 bachelor’s degree in his State of the State speech Tuesday. Perry addressed...

UT President William Powers Jr. is in stable condition after being hospitalized for a pulmonary embolism Tuesday. A doctor discovered the embolism during a medical examination Tuesday morning, according...

Bringing celebrity guests to the UT campus during the new Student Activity Center’s official grand opening week cost more than $70,000 in student fees. Monday’s “An Evening with Zach Braff” and...

Researchers at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio made breakthrough progress toward discovering a contributing factor of Alzheimer’s disease. The research team discovered a new protein that...

Austin’s emergency call system may need further planning and revision, members of the Public Safety Commission said in a meeting Monday. Concerns about the 911 system include a lack...

University students worldwide will compete this week for a chance to win a $50,000 grand prize to jump-start their plan for social entrepreneurship. The fifth annual Dell Social Innovation Competition...

Student volunteers passed out programs embedded with wildflower seeds to demonstrate the environmentally sustainable efforts of the Student Activity Center at an opening ceremony on Monday. The University...

Commercialization, lack of opportunity for new journalists and low-quality reporting all contribute to the overall decline of the news media, a visiting journalism professor said. Robert W....

NEW YORK — Tim Armstrong has looked like the unluckiest man in media for the past year. He used to be Google’s ad sales maestro, the definition of digital success. But ever since May 2009, when he took...

The University has made little progress to correct the gender inequities identified by the 2008 Gender Equity Report. The report made by a provost’s task force found inequities for female...