Over 40 students packed the Student Government assembly room — a contrast from the usual handful — as the assembly looked to pass funding for UT’s Turning Point USA chapter. The air was tense....

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Dustin Burrows, speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, announced $50 million will be put toward research on ibogaine, a psychedelic drug, on March 31. In June 2025,...

Don Huffines, the Republican nominee for Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, said decreasing state spending is among his priorities in Bass Lecture Hall on Tuesday. The man running to be the state’s...

The University and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas are partnering to study ways to strengthen the state’s electric grid, announced on March 26 in a news release. ERCOT, which manages the...

The parents of Savitha Shan, a student who was killed during the Sixth Street shooting in March, shared on April 10 that they created an endowment scholarship in her honor.  Shan Muthian and Selvi...

The John M. Kuehne Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy Library will permanently close on May 6, the dean of the College of Natural Sciences announced in an email last month. In response, students launched...

The Austin City Council has not voted on West Campus zoning updates meant to promote affordable housing nearly a year after it was scheduled to. The University Neighborhood Overlay is a program that...

To some Austinites, running isn’t just exercise, it’s something closer to a religion. Run clubs have existed in Austin since the 1970s, but it wasn’t until a decade later that the city became...

The Trump administration proposed sweeping changes to policies regarding college athletes’ Name, Image and Likeness in an April 3 executive order. The order attempts to limit how much athletes can be...

The Austin City Council approved the development of two over 400-foot-tall towers on West Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, despite University and residential pushback.  The development will include...

After more than a year in office, UT President Jim Davis sat down with The Daily Texan on Thursday for his first interview with outside press.  In the 30-minute interview, Davis discussed the consolidation...

A 2025 proposal from the Trump administration to UT was meant to collect feedback rather than be signed or rejected, University President Jim Davis said in an exclusive interview on Thursday. The Trump...