Pili Saravia, General News Reporter
• January 26, 2023
The UT Energy Institute is partnering with global oil companies to fund research plans that focus on sustainable energy, a collaboration that works toward mitigating the carbon footprint of the corporations.
Oil...
Isabella Zeff, General News Reporter
• January 26, 2023
It’s not just students who take classes at UT. University Housing and Dining now offers ESL, or “English as a Second Language,” classes to all of their employees to help further their communication...
Dr. George Arnaoutakis began his position as the first chief of the Dell Medical School’s new cardiovascular and thoracic surgery division on Jan 9.
Arnaoutakis is a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon...
Reece Tincher, General News Reporter
• January 18, 2023
The University announced professors of aerospace engineering Moriba Jah and Karen Willcox as appointees by the Secretary of Defense to join the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board on Jan. 5. The board...
Kylee Howard, Senior News Reporter
• January 17, 2023
UT-Austin blocked TikTok access on any device connected to its Wi-Fi networks, according to an email sent to the University community Tuesday morning. The decision follows Governor Greg Abbott’s directive...
Raiyan Shaik, General News Reporter
• January 17, 2023
The College of Liberal Arts is developing a new undergraduate major focusing on data science to be housed under the department of psychology.
The department began developing the new major, which will...
Vivien Ayers, Senior News Reporter
• January 16, 2023
On Jan. 12, Dean Jay Bernhardt announced in an email that he would be leaving UT and the Moody College of Communication at the end of the spring 2023 semester to become the 13th president of Emerson College...
Leena Alali, Senior News Reporter
• January 12, 2023
On Dec. 16, UT’s University Compliance department sent an email to students and faculty instructing all University employees to immediately remove TikTok from all state-issued devices.
On Dec. 15,...
Vivien Ayers, Senior News Reporter
• January 12, 2023
A new student course evaluation system with an improved interface and accessibility features launched at the end of the fall 2022 semester following a 2020 resolution advocating for improvements.
“(Students)...
UT students have created a new Google Chrome extension to make registering for classes easier.
UT Registration Planner is currently free to download on the Chrome Web Store and allows students to...
Sowmya Sridhar, General News Reporter
• December 19, 2022
Researchers from UT, the University of Utah and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a way to more quickly and efficiently...
Reece Tincher, General News Reporter
• December 2, 2022
Numerous UT students appear to have witnessed or experienced scams surrounding campus events, including scams where people pretend to be students or scams involving sports games or concert tickets.
“It...
