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College of Natural Sciences students struggle with mental health, college strives to increase awareness

College of Natural Sciences students struggle with mental health, college strives to increase awareness

Joelle DiPaolo, News Reporter May 8, 2022

Editor's note: This article first appeared in the May 3, 2022 flipbook. Maya Flores, an environmental science and geology freshman, said she took five STEM courses this semester. She said she wishes...

UT launches Longhorn SHARE, peer-led support groups addressing mental health issues

UT launches Longhorn SHARE, peer-led support groups addressing mental health issues

Leila Saidane, Senior News Reporter May 4, 2022

A new peer-led support group program at UT will help students address issues concerning imposter syndrome and mental health diagnoses or discuss navigating queer identities and first-generation college...

UT offers temporary positions to Ukrainian scholars

UT offers temporary positions to Ukrainian scholars

Madeline Duncan, News Reporter April 28, 2022

UT is offering eight paid faculty positions to Ukrainian scholars who are displaced or unable to return home as a consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Texas Global is partnering with the...

Research projects announced for UT-Austin Frontera supercomputer

Research projects announced for UT-Austin Frontera supercomputer

Katy Nelson, News Reporter April 28, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 26, 2022 flipbook. The world’s most powerful academic supercomputer — UT Austin’s Frontera — received its next annual set of projects...

UT will not require standardized test scores for fall 2023, joins Common App

UT will not require standardized test scores for fall 2023, joins Common App

Hope Unger, Senior News Reporter April 28, 2022

Beginning in Fall 2023, prospective students will be able to apply to UT through the Common App portal, and the application will no longer require standardized test scores for undergraduate admissions.  Miguel...

iSchool Inclusion Institute moves to UT, increases opportunities in informatics

iSchool Inclusion Institute moves to UT, increases opportunities in informatics

Joelle DiPaolo, News Reporter April 28, 2022

UT will host a program encouraging undergraduate students from underrepresented communities to engage in information sciences starting this summer. The iSchool Inclusion Institute is a program that...

Sexual abuse advocates gather to discuss trauma and victims’ rights at film screening

Sexual abuse advocates gather to discuss trauma and victims’ rights at film screening

Hope Unger, Senior News Reporter April 27, 2022

Content Warning: This story contains discussion of sexual violence and abuse.    The Texas Advocacy Project hosted a showing of the documentary “CUSP,” spotlighting the effects of sexual...

UT launches program for veterans, military families as they adjust to civilian life

UT launches program for veterans, military families as they adjust to civilian life

Hope Unger, News Reporter April 25, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 22, 2022 flipbook. UT started a new program earlier this month designed to support military veterans and their spouses as they transition back...

Moody Center makes debut

Moody Center makes debut

Christina Huang, Bo Espey, and Leila Saidane April 25, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 22, 2022 flipbook. After seven years in development, including about two years of construction, UT’s $375 million Moody Center made its debut...

Black Law and pre-law students reflect on Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation as first Black female supreme court justice

Black Law and pre-law students reflect on Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation as first Black female supreme court justice

Morgan Severson, News Reporter April 21, 2022

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 19, 2022 flipbook. Sitting in the breakroom at his internship for the U.S. House of Representatives, Jeremiah Baldwin said he felt emotional as...

Briscoe Center acquires archives from Richard Goodwin, speechwriter for JFK, LBJ

Briscoe Center acquires archives from Richard Goodwin, speechwriter for JFK, LBJ

Joelle DiPaolo, Senior News Reporter April 21, 2022

Former President Lyndon B. Johnson famously used the words “we shall overcome,” a phrase synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement, in a speech to Congress calling for voting rights in 1965. The drafts...

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Student Engineering Council votes against creation of DEI committee

Hope Unger, Senior News Reporter April 19, 2022

On Monday, the Student Engineering Council voted against adding an amendment to form a new diversity, equity and inclusion board due to disagreements over the organization’s constitution.  The creation...

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