On any given school year, corporate players in STEM fields host numerous competitions to excite students about engineering and the sciences. They dangle the usual goals: Build the perfect electric car....
Some of the strongest, sweetest, and most intelligent men I’ve had the pleasure of meeting have struggled with mental illness related issues. I’ve had men I care deeply about tell me that they...
Many students go through their four years at UT focused entirely on the content of their major, determined to be as prepared as possible for their career. For some students, however, this creates a blind...
Last week Facebook announced that fake accounts controlled by Russian operatives had purchased more than $100,000 in political ads on the site over the last two years. Just how serious are these revelations?...
#TeamNoSleep, burning the midnight oil, all nighters: Regardless of what you call this unnatural behavior, it has become accepted as the norm, even a sort of rite of passage, as many UT students think...
Working as an art museum guard, you develop an eye for small things. My job at the Blanton Museum of Art requires attention to skewed angles and tilted frames. I notice visitors with fingers that twitch...
Arkaive is a free app that uses geolocation to track your class attendance. Created by two University of Southern California graduates, Arkaive sells itself as simplifying the attendance process, but the...
Before Hurricane Harvey fizzled out, political games were already underway. It seems that even in the most trying times, politicians and cartoonists just can’t contain themselves. If there’s...
This September, the Moody College of Communication’s Internal Transfer Policy will no longer consider applicant’s supplemental materials. By removing the holistic portion of applications, Moody...
In his roaring re-entry to the Senate after surgery in July, Sen. John McCain stated the obvious — “(congress is) getting nothing done.” With hyper-partisanship rendering federal and...
There is a temptation after tragedies — be these the ones by lead, the ones by liquor or the ones by lightning — to abstain from recriminations. It’s thought to be in bad taste to cast...
Arkaive is a free app that uses geolocation to track your class attendance. Created by two University of Southern California graduates, Arkaive sells itself as simplifying the attendance process, but the...
