Dobie Center started renovating its movie theater and gym Wednesday as part of its $4 million improvement project, which is scheduled to be completed by the fall semester, according to the center’s...
Writing graduate student Mark Hitz received the Keene Prize for Literature from the College of Liberal Arts on Monday for his short stories “Shadehill” and “The Laws of Motion.”
“Uncertainty...
After receiving a $350,000 research grant, psychology associate professor David Yeager will begin investigating whether students with positive mind-sets about their intelligence tend to perform better...
Panelists discussed the future of Texas politics at a forum hosted by the Polymathic Scholars Student Leadership Panel on Wednesday.
Matt Glazer, founder of the Glazer Group — a political...
John Rizzo, former acting general counsel for the CIA, spoke Tuesday at the LBJ School of Public Affairs about his role in post 9/11 CIA actions, which included approving advanced interrogation techniques.
During...
The city of Austin’s freeze on issuing new pedicab licenses, which was supposed to expire Wednesday, will remain in place for another three months as the Austin Department of Transportation finalizes...
American historians prioritize World War II over World War I, a UT history professor said in a round table discussion Wednesday.
“As a culture, Americans don’t dwell much on World War I,”...
Architecture associate professor Vincent Snyder received the Rome Prize in early April, becoming the sixth winner from the University’s architecture school.
The award, which Snyder applied for...
After its previous owners closed its doors last month, local toy store Toy Joy reopened over the weekend after being sold in an auction to new owners.
Shelley Meyer and Fred Schmidt, who also own the...
While, for young adults, negative stigmas may surround growing old, a visiting professor said there are misconceptions about misery of aging in a lecture at the University on Friday.
In her lecture...
When tourists visit the National Mall in Washington D.C., they aren’t aware of the work and planning that goes into determining the different memorials’ details, said Phillip Kennicott, Washington...
Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS, said he attributes his company’s success to its commitment to giving back as part of the Texas Cowboys’ Annual Lectureship on Wednesday.
Mycoskie said TOMS’...
In the final event of an on-campus human rights lecture series, government professor Paula Newberg said, despite the efforts of Pakistan’s human rights activists, the country still faces significant...
American studies associate professor Shirley Thompson received a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship on March 20. The grant will aid in Thompson’s work and research in writing her book “No...
A UT professor discussed his Chinese history book, which uses a non-traditional approach to the subject, on campus Wednesday as part of the History Faculty New Book Series.
Published in 2012, history...
Student Government held it’s last meeting in Horacio Villarreal’s and Ugeo Williams’ tenures as SG president and vice president on Tuesday.
Kori Rady, government and corporate communications...
Hot wings are a college game day staple, but students don’t often question what brings the heat. Visiting natural history professor Joshua Tewksbury spoke Monday on why chilli peppers are so hot.
Tewksbury...
The new Center for Health Communication at the Moody College of Communication recently named its founding director, Jay Bernhardt, a former marketing director for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bernhardt...
Veteran Polygraph Examiner Brian Morris said in a lecture Tuesday that fewer than 5 percent of criminal cases actually go to trial — a fact he attributed in part to the success of polygraph tests....
The Dominican Republic has become a notorious hotbed for Major League Baseball teams to find big-time players over the past few decades, according to Alan Klein, a Northeastern University sociology-anthropology...
The first transatlantic flight to arrive in Austin touched down at Austin-Bergstrom Airport on Monday afternoon at approximately 4:50 p.m. The service is the first of many to come for the new route offered...
The first transatlantic flight to arrive in Austin touched down at Austin-Bergstrom Airport on Monday afternoon at approximately 4:50 p.m. The service is the first of many to come for the new route offered...
City streets in Nigeria are filled with a cacophony of announcements and messages broadcast via loudspeaker, according to Brian Larkin, associate professor and department chair of anthropology at Barnard...
Computer science senior Michael Goldstein spoke Tuesday night about the digital currency Bitcoin — created by the pseudonymous company Satoshi Nakamoto five years ago.
Whether Satoshi Nakamoto...
With a $5,000 grant from the Office of the Vice President of Research, assistant professor of architecture Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla will write a book that explores the influence European colonists and indigenous...
While some students like to play video games, a group of students with the Uh Theatre Company are adapting a video game into a play.
Uh Theatre Company, a student theater troop created last May, held...
The Cockrell School of Engineering unveiled three new labs dedicated to oil and gas drilling technologies at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday.
The labs were made possible by a donation of $1.7...
President Barack Obama awarded chemistry professor Allen Bard with the Enrico Fermi Award, a $50,000 prize he will share with Andrew Sessler, director emeritus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
Twenty one personal letters written by J.D. Salinger, author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” have been added to the Salinger collection at the Harry Ransom Center. In the letters, Salinger, who...
