UT researchers developed a mug-sized device shown to clear 99% of bacterial cells in water using electrical impulses, according to a paper published in May.
Most bacteria swim as a method of accessing...
Raiyan Shaik, Senior News Reporter
• August 20, 2023
The UT System Board of Regents announced plans to build a new medical center on the site of the Frank Erwin Center during a press conference Aug. 14. The University of Texas at Austin Medical Center will...
Mason Rouser, Senior News Reporter
• August 20, 2023
Student Government 2023-2024 President Helen Getachew and Vice President William Ramirez said they are eager to begin enacting campaign policies on housing, health equity, and diversity, equity and inclusion...
Austin’s record 31-day streak of consecutive 100-degree days has not only affected its human residents but its animal residents, too.
“(Heat) is dehydrating animals a lot quicker,” Hayley Hudnall,...
Mason Rouser, Senior News Reporter
• August 7, 2023
An internal investigation conducted by the Texas A&M University System Office of General Counsel reveals several high-ranking officials, including board regents and the campus president, were involved...
UT was named the best college in Texas for veterans and the 18th best college in the country for veterans, according to U.S. News & World Report.
The University was also named the best college...
Pili Saravia, General News Reporter
• August 7, 2023
Instead of signing yearbooks and hugging goodbye, high school freshmen ended the 2019-2020 school year with Zoom calls and isolation when COVID-19 canceled in-person classes. Some of these students...
The United States Congress pushed bipartisan legislation to decriminalize fentanyl test strips in an effort to reduce high overdose rates.
The Fentanyl Safe Testing and Overdose Prevention Act,...
While printed to be identical, older books have their own unique stories. This idea is captured through about 150 items in the Harry Ransom Center’s “The Long Lives of Very Old Books” exhibition...
Editor's note: This article was originally published with a photo of a different complex, not Rise at West Campus. The Texan regrets this error.
Rise at West Campus announced in an email to its future...
A study published in July found that authoritarian governments benefit from the secrecy provided by certain messaging applications’ encryption and use it to spread propaganda.
Conducted by the...
Karina Kumar, General News Reporter
• August 6, 2023
Renting your first apartment or house can be difficult, especially if you’ve never had to deal with a landlord or a lease before. Sometimes you can end up in bad situations like an apartment with...
