The Alchemy of Mind and Spirit exhibit, which explores the interplay between poetry and science, opened Sept. 26 in the Perry-Castañeda Library. This exhibit questions the assumed divide between...

Citing security concerns, Gov. Greg Abbott recently threatened to withdraw Texas from the federal U.S. Refugee Resettlement program. Considering how Texas consistently adheres to its conservative agenda,...

The bar was set extremely low for Donald Trump ahead of the first presidential debate. I thought the TV media would fawn endlessly over how Trump did not drool on his podium and declare him to be “presidential,”...

Last week the United Nations General Assembly held a high-level meeting where 193 countries pledged to fight the threat of “superbugs,” antibiotic-resistant infections that stemmed from antibiotic...

Some students come to college with their lives planned out through to their senior course schedule. The sane students rely on their first UT experiences to inform their decisions. The problem arises when...

Last week, two bullet casings were found around campus and a third was found atop a defaced anti-campus carry sign. The sign, originally for Gun Free UT, was defaced with the cryptic message: “In...

When artist Nancy La Rosa first encountered Huepetuhe’s villagers, they didn’t trust her. The people of the small mining settlement in the Peruvian Amazon wondered if she would report their...

This year, 201 cases of the Zika virus have been reported in Texas, and it has the potential to spread, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.  On Saturday, a panel of public...

Tevi Troy, author of “Shall We Wake the President?” and former U.S. deputy secretary of health and human services, discussed how U.S. presidents should take an active role in resolving crises...

Sumudu Atapattu, the director of Research Centers and a senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Law School, spoke on the relationship between human and environmental rights in a talk Monday hosted...

On Friday, the two-day Herzstein Texas National Security Forum closed with a panel on presidential transitions in the upcoming election. The panel took place at the LBJ Presidential Library and included...