A design graduate student hopes people will use a more natural alternative to environmentally harmful plates and containers. Amrita Adhikary designed a system to make compostable dinnerware out of fallen...

Activist group The Students Speak dedicated their full attention and energy to UT administrators and state legislators in a rally on Wednesday to protest budget cuts. About 100 students participated...

President William Powers Jr. testified before the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday to explain how the budget cuts will hurt UT while students both inside and outside the committee room made their voices...

A project designed to give teaching opportunities to graduate students and music experience to pre-college-aged students inspired the recent approval of a new academy of music on campus. After Sarah...

During difficult economic times, college graduates may be more willing to consider lower-paying jobs outside the corporate sector, said Communication Career Services Director of Placement Matthew Berndt. In...

Black students are more likely to support affirmative action and desegregation policies than white students, according to a recently released UT study. The study, conducted in 2008, took the student...

Undocumented UT students joined hundreds of other Texans to testify about proposed immigration bills before the Texas House State Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Adrian Reyna, a member of undocumented...

In an effort to catch bicycle thieves, UT Police Department has been planting “bait bikes” with GPS trackers around campus since January. When former officer Larry Robertson came across GPS technology...

Although the Tea Party played a key role getting Republicans elected in the 2010 elections, four political observers at a panel Tuesday said they are uncertain how the group will fare in 2012 or what...

Smokers used to stepping outside of University buildings to have a cigarette may have to go off-campus after Student Government passed a smoke-free campus resolution Tuesday. The resolution calls...

The U.S. Supreme Court began to hear a case Monday that could change the rules governing the intellectual property rights to inventions from University research. Intellectual property licensing...

The self-proclaimed rabble-rousers at the Texas Travesty are setting their sights on SG leadership for the third time — this year to save humanity from nuclear war. The Travesty is a University-sponsored...