Fifteen undergraduate students are competing to advance as finalists in the Texas Student Research Showdown. The showdown is an opportunity for these students to present their research on a variety of...

Austin entrepreneur and UT alum Brett Hurt has started five different tech companies but said his latest company, data.world, has the greatest potential to change the world. Tuesday evening in the AT&T...

Three large boards currently on display outside Gregory Plaza pose the questions “What are you going to be for Halloween?”, “How does the world need to change?” and “If you...

Toward the end of her high school experience, Plan II freshman Margaret Siu was struck with an idea: to create a collegiate-level literary magazine.  By the end of this semester, Siu said...

Editor's Note: This column appears in a point-counterpoint regarding whether polls are useful in predicting elections. To find its counterpoint, click here. The democratic value of public opinion...

Located on UT System-owned land in west Austin, one of Texas’ first desegregated golf courses was added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places...

The UT Harry Potter Alliance set up on the West Mall Tuesday for their Annual Butterbeer Sale to benefit Syrian refugees via the United Muslim Relief Syria Emergency Fund. The organization spent the...

Rainbow emojis flooded Facebook and Twitter feeds Tuesday for the 28th anniversary of National Coming Out Day, an annual LGBT awareness day. National Coming Out Day promotes a safe world for lesbian,...

Archer’s Challenge, a week-long city-wide event organized by undeclared sophomore Archer Hadley, rolled onto campus yesterday. The event challenged participants to spend the day in a wheelchair...

Last week seven species of Hawaiian bees were named endangered. These were the first bees in the U.S. to be placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, which aims to conserve threatened...

On Saturday, Robert DeNiro announced that he wanted to punch Donald Trump in the face. By now thousands of voters have probably sent DeNiro a few hundred pairs of boxing gloves and brass knuckles. Experts...

Editor’s note: Due to the sensitive nature of this topic, our sources spoke to us on the condition of anonymity. For those that do not attend UT, the traditions surrounding Red River Rivalry Weekend...