The Sigma Phi Omega sorority raised funds for Austin’s SafePlace women’s shelter Tuesday at the S.A.F.E. Street Carnival, while providing food, games and engaging ways to learn about domestic...
Inequal access to food obstructs the creation of a more just food system in Austin, according to an expert panel held Monday.
Four public affairs graduate students and Paula McDermott, Austin Sustainable...
Austin runners came together in support of the victims of this week’s Boston bombings in a vigil Thursday night.
Gilbert’s Gazelles, an Austin-based running group that was in Boston...
Streamed live to UT students and staff from Washington D.C., this year’s TEDMED conference explored perspectives on modern medicine and health care around the world.
Carolyn Kenny, MBA graduate...
Students are shedding light on previously unstudied motivation behind college binge drinking in new research conducted through the Department of Advertising and Public Relations Research Club.
In a...
A parade of students and colleagues barged into Sheldon Ekland-Olson’s 10 a.m. class carrying a $25,000 check with his name on it.
Ekland-Olson, a sociology professor and director of the School...
Austin was declared the friendliest city to small businesses in America by entrepreneurs who answered Thumbtack.com’s 2013 Small Business Friendliness Survey.
The 2013 survey, released earlier...
Anti-slavery groups gathered at a symposium Thursday to bring the hidden and ugly reality of current sex trafficking and slavery in Austin to light.
The event, Polaris, is a symposium named after...
Waves of pollen blanketing Austin are making life tough for those with seasonal allergies, but students and physicians have tips for avoiding the sniffles and sneezes.
The pollen count broke 1,500 grains...
Journalism trailblazer Evan Smith showed optimism for the future of digital news during a lecture Thursday in the Joynes Reading Room.
In “The Evolution will be Digitized: The Future of New News,”...
Invisibility cloaks continue to move out of science fiction and closer to reality thanks to new research by UT scientists.
Though researchers still have a long way to go before making 3-D objects invisible...
From queer approaches to family studies, to feminism in the Mormon church, to sexual agency in Rihanna’s new album, the 20th Annual Graduate Student Conference for Emerging Scholarship in Women’s...
Public affairs professor Jeremi Suri has ambitions to make UT a center for leadership development by emphasizing history as the key to strategic leadership.
Mid and senior-level managers gathered in...
Climbing enthusiasts, old and new, scaled brand new rock walls at the grand reopening of the Gregory Gym rock climbing wall.
Thursday was the wall’s open house, which attracted dozens of climbers...
Students marched and cheered through campus in celebration of Mexico’s Dia de la Bandera, or Day of the Flag, on Tuesday.
Established as a holiday in Mexico in 1937, the day commemorates...
Speakers engaged in renewed conversation over contemporary racism against black people in the Western hemisphere at a lecture series Wednesday.
The event marked the kickoff of the annual Lozano Long...
Looming cuts to the federal budget, also known as sequestration, could endanger research funding at UT and other universities across the nation.
Sequestration would cut federal spending by 8 to 10 percent...
The Science Under the Stars lecture series celebrated Valentine’s Day with a presentation on animal courtship at UT’s Brackenridge Field Laboratory on Thursday.
Victoria Huang, an ecology,...
Among Texas coaches’ recent achievements are a volleyball national title, three Big 12 rowing championships, an NCAA soccer tournament and a coaching position for the U.S. Olympic swimming team.
But...
The University of Texas at Austin ranked 16th among large schools for alumni participation in the Peace Corps in 2012, according to a report released Tuesday.
Laurie Young, Global Initiatives senior...
The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Afrikan-American Affairs, a UT student organization, hosted a rededication ceremony for the statue of former Congresswoman and UT faculty member Barbara Jordan.
The...
At the Skillpoint Alliance in downtown Austin, a crowded room of tech whizzes and video game enthusiasts is cordially buzzing, awaiting the kickoff of the Global Game Jam, an annual weekend of creative...
Less than a week after state Sen. Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury, filed a bill that would allow concealed carry license holders to carry handguns while on university campuses, violence broke out in Houston...
