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Student Government supports free, reduced-cost meal plans for off-campus students

Student Government supports free, reduced-cost meal plans for off-campus students

Maryam Ahmed, Senior News Reporter March 5, 2024

Student Government passed legislation supporting free and reduced-cost meal plans for off-campus students on Feb. 12. Business representative Jonathan Wilson, the author of the bill, said he initially...

Developing research uses AI to charge power grid

Developing research uses AI to charge power grid

Abby Breyfogle, General News Reporter March 5, 2024

An engineering professor at UT is leading six researchers in ongoing research to bring advanced computer programming systems, like artificial intelligence and machine learning, to the future of power grids. Javad...

UT professor helps develop theory explaining why we have biases

UT professor helps develop theory explaining why we have biases

Julian Petzold, General News Reporter March 5, 2024

A UT professor recently co-wrote a research paper explaining why we experience perceptual biases. Perceptual biases occur when observations inform how someone makes decisions. Xuexin Wei, an assistant...

Frog pandemic catalyzed by climate change and habitat loss

Frog pandemic catalyzed by climate change and habitat loss

Chloe Robinson, General News Reporter March 5, 2024

As humanity grappled with the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19, the foothill yellow-legged frog faced a pandemic of its own, one that endangered the species.  Since the 1990s, Batrachochytrium...

E-bike injuries increase while helmet use declines, study finds

E-bike injuries increase while helmet use declines, study finds

Laura Rivera, General News Reporter March 5, 2024

E-bike injuries increased while helmet use declined over the span of five years, according to a study published on Feb. 21 in Jama Surgery.  Researchers analyzed over 1,000 cases of e-bike injuries...

UT exceeds $1 billion in research expenditures

UT exceeds $1 billion in research expenditures

Matthew Gomez, General News Reporter March 4, 2024

The University recently provided data showing research expenditures at UT passed $1 billion for the first time in the 2023 fiscal year.  The data came from the Higher Education Research and Development...

Take what you need, give what you can: Students organize free refrigerator in West Campus

Take what you need, give what you can: Students organize free refrigerator in West Campus

Ren Leija, Senior News Reporter March 4, 2024

UT students are establishing a free refrigerator in West Campus as a way to fight food insecurity. Food insecurity is no stranger to University students — 37.7%, of UT students experience some form...

Judge Glock, Director of Research at 
Manhattan Institute speaks at a panel during the YIMBYtown Conference on Feb. 27.

Housing affordability panel emphasizes need for increased housing supply

Pili Saravia, Senior News Reporter March 4, 2024

Increasing housing availability and reducing zoning regulations are steps Texas policymakers can take to increase housing affordability, panelists said at a nationwide pro-housing conference on Feb. 26.  Previously...

Panelists discuss intersection between sustainable transportation, housing

Panelists discuss intersection between sustainable transportation, housing

Pili Saravia, Senior News Reporter March 4, 2024

Reducing the distance between destinations, improving public transport and electrifying vehicles could help address the housing, transportation and environmental issues in Austin, panelists said at a housing-affordability...

Plan II senior Isabel Webb Carey introduces the UT Tenants Union to a newcomber. The UT Tenants Union met on the afternoon of March 3 to attract new members.

University Tenants’ Union launches to advocate for student housing

Abby Breyfogle, General News Reporter March 4, 2024

Students gathered on Sunday at Pearl Street Co-op for the launch of the University Tenants’ Union. The organization, previously called UT for Housing Transparency, rebranded to UTU at the launch....

Christianna McAfee, Fikayomi Johnson, and Evan Craig sit in the former Multicultural Engagement Center on Monday, March 4, 2024.

Students vote in favor of new center replacing Multicultural Engagement Center

Maryam Ahmed, Senior News Reporter March 4, 2024

Students voted in support of a new center to replace the Multicultural Engagement Center during a referendum in the Student Government elections on Feb. 26 and 27.  The election results were announced...

2024-25 Student Government President Grace Kelly and Vice President Gabrielle “Elle” Grinnell on Feb. 20, 2024.

Newly-elected student government Executive Alliance look to address post-SB 17 campus culture, student mental health, food insecurity

Naina Srivastava, Senior News Reporter March 4, 2024

Grace Kelly and Gabrielle “Elle” Grinnell were elected 2024-25 Student Government president and vice president on Monday. The Executive Alliance will be sworn in at noon on April 2. Kelly and...

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