A UT history associate professor will fill the directorial position at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library next semester following an eight-month-long selection process.
Mark Lawrence will...
When the doctor walked through the door, Lizzie Tennyson knew exactly what he would say. Four days before she was going to start studying computer engineering at UT in October, her cancer was back.
“UT...
Teresa Lozano Long, a UT alumna and longtime donor to the school, received the National Humanities Medal in a ceremony at the White House on Thursday.
The medal honors those who help deepen the public’s...
In Jesse H. Jones Hall, two chairs and a couch sit in the center of the fifth floor, flanked by potted plants and surrounding small, round tables. On the wall, shelves hold three balls and a book about...
After searching since early 2019, University Health Services has chosen a new chief medical officer, who assumed the position Monday.
Dr. Terrance Hines, a clinical assistant professor of Population...
Being Latinx is about self-identifying and embracing different backgrounds, panelist Theresa Vargas Wyatt said during an on-campus summit Thursday.
“What is empowering about the ‘x’...
Students clad in purple shirts gathered at the Main Mall Monday afternoon as music blared from speakers and campus mascot Hook ‘Em tossed T-shirts into the crowd.
Organization tables lined the...
UT alumnus Dakota Stormer said he wants to help people understand how their actions impact the planet. To do that, he developed Footprint, an app that allows users to log their daily activities and recognize...
Battling each other through computers, about 100 students competed in an on-campus coding competition Saturday to win up to $25,000 in cash prizes.
As part of the competition, students develop algorithms...
The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies hosted a screening of a documentary Wednesday about the late Toni Morrison, an African American novelist and Nobel Prize winner who...
The fifth-most-powerful supercomputer in the world, known as Frontera, launched Tuesday during a dedication ceremony at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
Dan Stanzione, executive director of...
Students looking for a convenient way to earn money and gain experience during the semester have a variety of ways to secure an on-campus job.
If students want to work at colleges or on-campus organizations,...
At the annual Gone to Texas celebration, fireworks and a giant 23 on the tower welcomed 8,000 new students to the Forty Acres.
The event, which featured a performance of “The Eyes of Texas”...
Theatre graduate student Chris Conard has never experienced an escape room. Now, he is helping build one.
In an escape room, players solve puzzles to complete a central task within a time limit. Conard...
Advertising alumnus Daniel Goetz began his popsicle business, GoodPop, in 2009 when he was a senior at UT. Returning to the University on Monday, he said an important factor in running a business is hiring...
Former UT President Bill Powers was honored at a memorial service Friday afternoon with speeches from current UT President Gregory Fenves and Powers’ friends and colleagues. Powers died March 10...
The Office of the Dean of Students brought Suzette Walden Cole from the Institute for Hazing Prevention to speak about hazing within student organizations as part of the Horns Against Hazing initiative...
The Q Austin and Gender Unbound hosted Transgender Day of Visibility on Sunday to celebrate the transgender community of Austin with drag performances, stand-up comedy and free tests for multiple STDs...
Students gathered in front of the Tower on Thursday night to hold a vigil for the March shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The vigil was a joint event held by Student Government, the...
After spending eight years as Netflix’s chief financial officer, David Wells gave insight on what companies such as Netflix look for in potential employees as part of the McCombs School of Business’...
A nationwide increase in law school applications could be linked to the political climate, according to Kaplan Test Prep survey results.
The results of the 2018 survey were released last month...
Every Thursday, a group of UT students who are native Spanish speakers go to Ojeda Middle School in Del Valle Independent School District to work with Spanish-speaking middle schoolers and bolster their...
The third annual Improve UT Challenge, an initiative to suggest improvements to the University, is accepting ideas through Feb. 18. Created in 2017 by Vivianne Tu, a management and business honors senior,...
The fourth annual Texas Advertising & Public Relations Bowl brought students from different communication departments together to watch the Super Bowl and its highly anticipated advertisements.
Attendees...
