After giving birth at the start of her freshman year, Ellen DeCastro had to miss the first three weeks of school. When she returned to campus, DeCastro said she struggled to find the information she needed...
Long wait times and a merry-go-round of doctor referrals have been staples of traditional medicine, but some UT researchers are trying to change that.
Operations management researchers and physicians...
Full tuition and fees will now be provided to any UT student whose family income totals up to $65,000, starting in fall 2020. This means an estimated 8,600 undergraduate students will be impacted by this...
After graduating from UT in May, Shahid Nowshad was eager to start working full-time as a software engineer. But when his first day arrived on June 17, Nowshad was unable to begin.
Nowshad, who’s...
A breast cancer drug may be the key to treating some food poisoning-related infections, according to a paper published June 26 by UT researchers.
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infections are a major...
Texas unanimously adopted the 19th Amendment much earlier than expected. Conservative Southern Democrats ran the state at the time, but a close gubernatorial election, a secret quid pro quo and a fight...
In her 18 years of teaching sociology full time at UT, senior lecturer Penny Green rarely missed a class. That remained true until the Thursday before Spring Break this year, March 14.
It was the early...
A new approach to a UT-Austin course is helping students learn about the history of American education by studying the intersection of race and education in Austin.
Luis Urrieta, a professor of...
The Longhorn Alumni Band recently completed a feat more than two years in the making: performing during the 75th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France.
Over 300 band members took part in the...
The University concluded a seven-month investigation into a student’s claim of race-based discrimination perpetrated by the former executive director of the Center for Women in Law, and found the...
When state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, got the news Saturday evening that her anti-hazing bill signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott, it marked the end of a 14-year effort.
Advocates say the state’s...
Former UT System Regent Wallace Hall said there is innate corruption in higher education at a discussion held Wednesday in light of the college admissions scandals.
During the event, hosted by...
