The Queer and Trans Student Alliance started an initiative in early October to provide free pregnancy tests to students amid Texas’ restrictive abortion law that prohibits the procedure as early as...
Mackenzie Smith, former SG advocacy director, said she and Meera Sam, former SG chief of staff, resigned from the organization because their requests for SG to address student concerns about transparency and to disaffiliate with the Tejas Club amid the organization’s sexual assault allegations went unheard.
King Davis, a research professor in the School of Information, will work with graduate students and other professors to identify, organize and produce digital copies of documents from the Austin State Hospital such as admission, treatment and discharge records dating as far back as 1857.
The Dinosaur Park in Cedar Creek discovered three of their dinosaur statues were missing Oct. 21 after a trail inspection and offered a $1,000 reward for information about their whereabouts. Someone submitted a tip on Oct. 25 that they saw the statues during a frat party on Oct. 23.
The University’s Gender and Sexuality Center launched in 2004 after the separately established Women’s Resource Center and GLBTA Agency merged in 2002.
Senate Bill 52, approved Oct. 15, provided the University with $56 million to renovate the Microelectronics Research Center at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus and $56 million to renovate the Physics, Math, and Astronomy building.
The Senate of College Councils released a campuswide survey Oct. 19 for students to express their concerns regarding the University’s biannual tuition reset, which will take place next February.
Over...
UT employees submitted 1,415 complaints of student sexual misconduct to the Title IX Office from Aug.14, 2020, to Aug. 24, 2021, about 300 more reports than 2019-2020, according to a document released...
UT launched a program this month that allows students to anonymously report their experiences on campus to better identify problem areas in the community.
The Division of Diversity and Community Engagement...
Professor Kevin Dalby was awarded almost $4 million to fund a cancer research project early this October, two years after he was found in violation of UT’s sexual misconduct guidelines.
The grant...
For the next five years, as part of a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers from UT, the University of California San Diego and Stanford University will look into and devise solutions for browsers attacked by hackers with malicious intent.
In early October, a new master’s program that explores how the arts and humanities interact with the medical field started accepting applications for its first semester in the fall of 2022.
The...
