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McCombs to launch new sustainability focused executive education program

McCombs to launch new sustainability focused executive education program

Raiyan Shaik, Senior News Reporter August 22, 2023

The McCombs Schools of Business created a new executive education program called the Sustainability Leadership Program to educate business professionals on integrating sustainability into their work.  The...

UT researchers develop modified VR headset to monitor brain activity

UT researchers develop modified VR headset to monitor brain activity

Amirtha Jayakumaran, Senior News Reporter August 22, 2023

A team of researchers at UT modified a virtual reality headset with a noninvasive electroencephalogram to measure brain activity. “VR headsets are widely used as an immersive environment to either...

Tiktoker Adam Powell, who makes videos on Austin history, stands in front of the Littlefield Home, built in 1893 for Civil War veteran George Littlefield, on August 16, 2023. “I think it should be questioned whether this is a guy who's deserving of honor when his whole life's work, in terms of history, was pushing to honor the Confederacy as much as possible,” Powell said.

Local content creator takes on online platform for community advocacy

Kylee Howard, News Desk Editor August 20, 2023

“It's so niche,” said Adam Powell, owner of @adampowellatx on TikTok. “There's no way the algorithm’s ever going to pick this up.” Twenty-nine-year-old Powell grew up in Leander, north of...

Researchers develop device to purify water from natural sources

Researchers develop device to purify water from natural sources

Amirtha Jayakumaran, Senior News Reporter August 20, 2023

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...

UT System Board of Regents announce plans for new UT medical center

UT System Board of Regents announce plans for new UT medical center

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...

Student Government 2023-2024 President Helen Getachew and Vice President William Ramirez .

Student Government executive alliance look ahead to the 2023-24 school year

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...

Animals face dehydration and exhaustion in Austin’s hot weather

Animals face dehydration and exhaustion in Austin’s hot weather

Grace Xu, General News Reporter August 7, 2023

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,...

Internal investigation reveals high ranking officials at Texas A&M were involved in UT journalism professor Kathleen McElroy’s failed hiring

Internal investigation reveals high ranking officials at Texas A&M were involved in UT journalism professor Kathleen McElroy’s failed hiring

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 named best college in Texas for veterans

UT named best college in Texas for veterans

Ireland Blouin, Senior News Reporter August 7, 2023

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...

COVID-19 impacted learning, social behaviors for 2020 high school freshmen who step into college this fall

COVID-19 impacted learning, social behaviors for 2020 high school freshmen who step into college this fall

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...

Texans in Congress push to decriminalize test-strips, reduce fentanyl related deaths

Natalia Simbeck, General News Reporter August 7, 2023

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,...

‘The Long Lives of Very Old Books’ exhibition to display Shakespeare’s First Folio, other historical works at Harry Ransom Center

‘The Long Lives of Very Old Books’ exhibition to display Shakespeare’s First Folio, other historical works at Harry Ransom Center

Areebah Bharmal, General News Reporter August 7, 2023

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...

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