UT’s Micro Farm is off to a not-so-micro start.
The project is aimed at growing food locally on campus for UT’s dining halls, an on-campus farm stand and a nearby food shelter. It is funded...
Emma Donoghue’s “stray,” a short story collection that switches artfully across many writing styles and narrative voices, tells 14 tales of people who are finding their way home.
Divided...
UT pays former deans who now serve as professors in the School of Social Work and the School of Architecture at higher rates than the schools’ current deans.
From data obtained through a public...
After what some experts have called one of the closest Presidential races in history, Barack Obama has secured four more years in the White House.
As of press time, the president secured 303 projected...
Beyond its partnership with a nonprofit offering innovative online classes, the UT System hopes to continue its growth in the world of digital and interactive education.
Steven Mintz, executive director...
The UT Department of Physics’ open house ended with a splat Tuesday afternoon as watermelons fell 224 feet at 55 miles per hour in about 2-and-half seconds.
The event opened 21 labs in Robert Lee...
UT will automatically admit students in the top 7 percent of Texas high school graduating classes next year, down from the top 8 percent this academic year.
UT President William Powers Jr. said in a letter...
UT is looking to perform “And Then Came Tango” for private and charter schools after they reached a decision with Austin Independent School Districts to stop performing the play for the district’s...
The best scary stories used to be told around a crackling fire or between the pages of a good book. Now, most nail-bitters are told at the modern movie theater, with screens as wide as 72 feet. These movies...
It takes a wicked human being to release a book about the dangers of eating too much right before the holiday season when we are all about to be shoving stuffing in our mouths. But that’s just what...
With a BANG, a SMACK, hundreds of ellipses and God only knows how many exclamation marks, Tom Wolfe is back.
Wolfe released his new book, “Back to Blood,” earlier this week, after an eight-year...
Andrea Wagner does not normally drive to campus. When she does, she usually regrets it.
Wagner, a social work junior, has a class C parking permit and is one of many students competing for the limited...
College Republicans opted out of a Wednesday debate with University Democrats, citing a lack of organization and communication by Hook the Vote, despite debate organizers’ assertions that the debate...
Students enrolling in introductory Italian classes next semester are more likely to have an assistant instructor than a lecturer who has taught for years.
Three lecturers will not be asked to return to...
After a 21-day energy conservation contest, UT’s Honors Quad saved more than 115 kilowatt-hours of energy.
The Quad Energy Challenge, a contest that started Oct. 1, was held between the Littlefield,...
Future plays by UT’s College of Fine Arts scheduled for second graders in the Austin Independent School District have been put on hold because of concerns about the “age appropriateness”...
Esperar means “to hope” in Spanish, an emotion Esperos is built on.
Esperos, which launched officially this past July, is an organization that sells canvas backpacks to raise money to send...
After evaluating the property crime situation in West Campus, Student Government is working to remind students to be more aware of the threat of theft.
Carson Jones, University Area Partners’ external...
Allies and members of the LGBTQ community will don purple Friday as part of a movement against bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation...
The Senate of College Councils will vote on a new honor code for the University at its meeting Thursday night.
If the vote passes, the new honor code would say: “As a student of the University of...
Many of UT’s student veterans may skip the annual veteran’s football game next month because of difficulties with seating.
Every year, UT honors veterans by decidating one of its games...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will fund UT research projects after the University signed an agreement with the space program Tuesday.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory added UT to its Strategic University...
With Halloween a little more than two weeks away, readers might feel the urge to pick up R. L. Stine’s latest horror novel, “Red Rain.”
Don’t.
Stine, who made his fame and fortune...
Many students were pleased with the University’s issuance of a timely and informative text alert Friday after receiving reports that a man with a gun and a gas mask was sighted on campus.
The gun...
Coinciding with a restructuring of UT’s career services on campus, MyEdu.com will now help students in the hunt for jobs and internships.
The online higher education platform launched an overhaul...
A duo of brothers is bringing stylish, Arabic-style sandals to America while raising money for education in South Asia.
Radio-Television-Film graduate student Hammad Rizvi and his brother, University...
Enrollment at public universities is increasing across Texas, not just at UT-Austin.
Texas A&M University, the University of North Texas, Texas State University, Texas Tech University and the...
With Tuesday marking the last day students can register to vote for the Nov. 6 elections, Hook the Vote is having one last campus-wide voter registration drive.
Hook the Vote, a Student Government agency...
Cole Kirby thought #GetLoudDKR would be a small inside joke between his friends.
He was wrong.
More than 2,000 people have committed to a Facebook event called “#GETLOUDDKR” that encourages...
Christine Matyear, energetic teacher, cat-lover and skeet-shooter, died Thursday morning.
Matyear, a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, died while she was home...
UT-Austin jumped into the top 25 in a listing of the world’s top universities after ranking 29th last year.
The University ranked 25th best in the world on the 2012-2013 Times Higher Education’s...
New Student Services has announced a new program called “New Student Orientation 2.0,” which is designed to help first-year students continue their transition into college.
Orientation 2.0...
More than 100 members of the UT community marched through the streets of West Campus Tuesday evening, chanting their concerns about recently reported incidents of bias in the area.
In a march titled “Walk...
While UT saw the number of first-time undergraduates increase by 900, its number of first-time graduate students fell slightly, which is part of a national trend.
Nationally from 2010 to 2011, applications...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry renewed demands for four-year tuition freezes and $10,000 degrees at Texas public universities during a news conference Monday afternoon.
Perry said he wants to improve higher education...
With a $500 prize on the line, honors students might become obsessed with power instead of grades this month.
Turning their lights off is one thing students living in the Littlefield, Carothers, Blanton...
J.K. Rowling is still J.K. Rowling. She is the same author who produced the “Harry Potter” and can still conjure up a colorful cast of characters who dictate a puzzling and intricate plot....
It is the busy season for Sylvia Holmes in the Legal Services for Students center — and that is how she likes it.
Holmes, a part-time attorney at the center, said appointments are booked for two...
John Silber died Thursday morning of kidney failure at the age of 86. He worked at the University from 1957 to 1970 before Frank Erwin fired him because he opposed Erwin’s plan to reorganize the...
University governing boards commonly include student representatives, but most student regents, including the UT System’s student regent, are forced to advocate for students without a vote.
State...
Striving to inform students about the University’s resources and academic issues, the Senate of College Councils hopes to start a new tradition this year.
The Senate is holding its first Academic...
With more than 50 majors in the College of Liberal Arts, defining a liberal arts student is not always easy. But this year’s Liberal Arts week will attempt to explore that, starting with an essay...
Higher education costs and procedures were a frequent discussion topic at the Texas Tribune Festival this past weekend and offered what some say is a preview of the upcoming legislative session.
Sponsored...
Evan Smith, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune, spoke to The Daily Texan about this weekend’s second annual Texas Tribune Festival. The Festival is a weekend-long event with panels, discussions,...
While his name is not nearly as well-known as his most famous video with 10 million views, Jon Cozart has made a splash into the world of fandom with his YouTube channel, Paint.
In July 2011, Cozart released...
After admitting the largest freshman class in UT’s history, 8,092 students, the University’s administration is saying they expect to enroll almost 1,000 fewer students next year.
This year’s...
UT officials are turning down an immediate $33 million donation for the music school because they say a string attached to the money would incur too many monetary costs. To get the donation, the University...
English associate professor Snehal Shingavi opened his class, Literature of Islamophobia, to the public Monday in response to the UT Police Department’s initial statement during Friday’s bomb...
After the weekend, concern about the timeliness and language of the University’s response to Friday’s hoax bomb threat remains while FBI investigations are still ongoing.
Erik Vasys, San Antonio...
Students and faculty have returned to campus after Friday’s evacuation following a phone-in bomb threat that morning. The University cancelled classes Friday, and events resumed at 5:00 p.m. except...
UT is filling a void in student financial aid with institutional grants after 60 students did not receive their Federal Pell Grants, a grant ranging from $555 to $5,550 for the neediest students, because...
After hours of work and preparation, there is some satisfaction for facilities staff members when the UT Tower lights up burnt orange or when the windows spell out a class’ number. But there is also...
UT Student Government is focusing on entrepreneurship on campus, working to create a Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency that will support students interested in innovation.
SG discussed the legislation...
Graduate students who work as teaching assistants or assistant instructors are seeing a temporary increase in their tuition assistance benefits to cover last year’s permanent increase in their tuition.
Last...
UT Police Department said witnesses reported a suspect pulling fire alarms across campus Monday afternoon, which resulted in eight on-campus building evacuations.
According to interviews with witnesses,...
While UT is saving 233,000 gallons of water annually by using rock gardens and drought-tolerant plants, landscapers in the facilities department are looking to save even more.
UT’s Campus Planning...
After initially prohibiting news boxes at the Belo Center for New Media, the College of Communication announced it has recognized the demand for The Daily Texan and will place a box on-site sometime in...
After initially not allowing news boxes in front of the Belo Center for New Media, the College of Communication announced Thursday afternoon it was working to add the boxes to the center's site.
Daily...
As part of its effort to increase student voter turnout in November, Hook the Vote will deputize volunteers with the ability to register voters for the first time this semester Thursday 6:00 p.m. at the...
As the Belo Center for New Media works to gear students up for the new digital age of journalism, some faculty and students are concerned it is leaving the print age behind.
Citing environmental concerns,...
Longhorn fans nationwide are proudly purchasing and wearing Longhorn gear, according to rankings by the Collegiate Licensing Company that put UT-Austin as the top seller of licensed college merchandise...
2016 is everywhere. It is on the shirts. It is on the bags UT gave students at orientation. It has become a hash tag on Twitter. It was in UT President William Powers Jr.’s speech at Gone to Texas....
President William Powers Jr. announced a new professorship Thursday that will support programs and faculty doing innovative work in the field of undergraduate studies.
The professorship was made in honor...
A U.S. District Court shot down a proposed Texas voter ID law that would require citizens to produce government-issued photo identification to vote in the November election, sparking the fury of top Texas...
University officials announced Wednesday they will not conduct a formal investigation into the research methods of a UT professor for scientific misconduct following his study, which claimed children of...
With production assistance from Texas Student Television, student body president and vice president Thor Lund and Wills Brown released their first YouTube video address to UT’s student body Tuesday...
To provide students with a safe study space late on campus this semester, the Perry-Castañeda Library will operate on a 24-hour basis starting mid-October.
After a Student Government initiative,...
It’s been a rough few weeks for Sarah Pastore, who until recently did not know where she would live this fall. The psychology freshman began searching for housing in late July after UT informed her...
UT President William Powers Jr. and Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds will provide a Longhorn Network status update to the Board of Regents at a meeting Thursday, according to an agenda book posted online...
About 400 transfer students will walk on campus Tuesday for fall orientation, and another 1000 freshmen will follow on Wednesday for fall orientation sessions.
Students who could not make...
The Austin City Council delayed a vote Thursday on an amendment ordinance that would make it more difficult to build cooperatives or Greek homes in areas near campus. The vote will now take place on September...
While city officials claim a new policy requiring property owners to seek approval before constructing group housing buildings is a process that would only take a few months, history shows the approval...
Brace yourselves — the freshmen are coming.
University officials have spent the summer months preparing for what might be its largest incoming freshman class on record and what could be the second...
UT officials are not as confident as they were in June of the University’s ability to handle the large size of the incoming freshman class.
One thousand two hundred students who applied for housing...
While the independent review of UT’s fracking study is still ongoing, University officials said they do not intend to update the study with an acknowledgment that geology professor Charles Groat...
A former freshman is suing UT fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon, claiming she was sexually assaulted after one of the organization’s parties during new student orientation.
The plaintiff said she was...
Co-operative and Greek housing has always been an alternative housing choice for college students and residents in Austin, but City Council is considering a new ordinance amendment that will make it difficult...
The University will hire an outside group of experts to review a UT professor’s now controversial study regarding the effects of fracking, a method used by many companies to extract natural gas,...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Fisher v. University of Texas, a case questioning UT's affirmative action admission policy, on October 10.
Brought forth by plaintiff Abigail Fisher,...
Co-op residents are fighting a new proposal that may make it difficult to build new Greek houses or co-op buildings in the area surrounding the UT campus.
Proposed by Austin City Council, the Limitation...
UT assistant landscaping manager Janet McCreless said she learned there are two types of buildings in Texas: those with termites and those that will get termites.
The University of Texas is a sprawling...
A suspect in a downtown shooting that left four injured may have been spotted on San Jacinto Boulevard early Sunday morning.
The University of Texas Police Department alerted the UT community of a person...
On Wednesday, President William Powers Jr. told The Daily Texan the University will join the Worker Rights Consortium to monitor human rights in the production of UT apparel, an issue students of the Make...
In his third visit to Austin in as many years, President Barack Obama made two campaign stops to raise money, one at Austin Music Hall and a second at the Four Seasons Residences.
At the Austin Music...
UT received an average of 2.38 inches of rain this weekend, with 98 percent of recorded rainfall happening Sunday night.
Markus Hogue, program coordinator of Irrigation and Water Conservation at the University,...
On the ceiling of Robert A. Welch Hall’s lecture theater lies decades-old paintings displaying shades of orange, yellow and red. Painted by an unknown artist at the University’s inception,...
A Wednesday decision by the UT System Board of Regents has left radio station KUT in a temporary intermission, halting KUT’s plans to purchase local station KXBT. The board has not announced when...
The University of Texas Police Department is asking parents to disregard suspicious phone calls demanding a ransom for their kidnapped child. The police have received two reports of this happening, both...
Citing lingering questions directed at his office, Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa tabled the approval of KUT’s $6 million purchase of KXBT’s 98.9 at the Board of Regent’s meeting on Wednesday....
Update at 2:00 p.m. - Tuesday evening thunderstorms amounted to an average of about .18 inches of rainfall on campus, saving UT about 313,043 gallons of water. The Tower’s rain gauge recorded .16...
About 2,500 West Campus residents lost power for two hours after a tree fell on a power line. Austin Energy officials said power has now been restored.
Carlos Cordova, an Austin Energy spokesman, said...
Texas received an average score in student performance and a failing grade in its openness to accept higher education providers in a recent report by the Institute for a Competitive Workforce, a nonprofit...
Elected officials are among the many who have hopped on the social media bandwagon, utilizing tools like Facebook and Twitter to communicate with their constituents. New research finds that elected officials...
Update at 11:10 p.m. - Local fireworks sellers have agreed to not sell "winged fireworks", rockets and missiles due to concerns about fires starting because of dry vegetation. "Winged...
HOUSTON — Friends and family gathered in Houston Saturday night to share memories of Lorena “Lori” Rodriguez, the first Hispanic editor-in-chief of The Daily Texan and former minority...
Update at 12:30 p.m. - UT spokeswoman Cynthia Posey released a statement saying the suspect in Sunday morning's attempted sexual assault, Ji Hun Choi, was arrested Monday at the UTPD station....
The Department of Computer Science will decrease the number of required classes needed to obtain a degree from the department, a move some faculty hope will allow students to specialize in their interests...
With 18,000 likes and counting, the UTexas Memes Facebook page has not left the spotlight yet. Page creator Daniel Monroy said he thought his Facebook page would have died out by now — but it hasn’t....
A security camera caught footage of a suspect in an attempted sexual assault that happened at the entrance of Roberts Hall Dormitory Sunday morning at 1:25 am, UTPD Capt. Julie Gillespie said.
The...
State Senator José Rodríguez, D-El Paso, is looking to work with the Board of Regents and the UT System on establishing a set of procedures that will assure cooperation with local officials...
