You know how sometimes you pause, take a good look around and just wonder how you got there? Because I have no idea how I got here. All I remember is sitting in an airport lounge the summer after freshman...

As of fall 2018, there are 51,832 students enrolled at UT. These students represent all 50 states, and 124 countries. Our total alumni measure nearly 500,000.  Despite these figures, representation...

President Richard Nixon signed Title IX into law as part of the larger education amendments of 1972 and as a follow-up to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law states that “No person in...

Last October, a car accident took Nicky Cumberland’s life. He was on his way back from a Texas Cowboys retreat that involved alleged hazing. The driver had fallen asleep at the wheel.  An...

We started off this semester with the goal of encouraging greater participation in campus-wide discourse, and our first two forum pages were centered around free speech on campus —— specifically,...

One of the most notorious problems many UT students struggle with doesn’t have to do with the University directly — housing. When students who choose to live off-campus start searching for...

The Daily Texan Forum is a space for members of the UT-Austin community to voice their opinions and have them heard. We publish op-eds submitted to us by non-Daily Texan staff members with the goal of...

The boiling advisory is over, but the threat of losing access to potable water is not. The city-wide boiling notice that was put into effect last Monday reminded Austin residents that clean water is a...

Countless UT students rely on the bus system to get around campus and the city. For those who live in Riverside or North Campus and don’t have cars or other modes of transportation, buses are the...

The official attendance policy at UT is “regular attendance at all class meetings is expected.” Often   departments agree on an attendance policy and all professors within that department...

If you want to learn about your body’s immune system, you need to look at its control center — the lymph nodes. That’s where the various cells that comprise the immune system come together...

Blockchain and bitcoin go together like peanut butter and jelly, but blockchain and healthcare are more like peanut butter and pickles. The technology has immense potential, but it should be approached...

Although carbon nanotubes are tiny, they have the potential to fix big problems.  Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical carbon molecules with nanometer-sized diameters. A collaboration between UT-Austin,...

This academic year, the Health Informatics and Health IT certification program, designed to prepare post-baccalaureate students for work in health informatics and health information technology, moved from...

A joint study conducted by UT-Austin and Queensland University of Technology found there was a clear link between regional neuroticism and voting behavior in the 2016 United States presidential election...

The UT-born MasSpec Pen, a cancer-detecting pen developed by assistant chemistry professor Livia Eberlin and her team, isn’t slowing down anytime soon. The pen won this year’s SXSW Interactive...

UT chemical engineering professor Brian Korgel has always had a creative side. As the director of education and outreach at UT’s Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials, he has used his creativity...

In addition to “UT’s favorite avian resident,” the University’s beloved Tower Girl can now add “TV star” to her resume. Earlier this week, UT’s Biodiversity...

Alison Norman and Sarah Abraham, two computer science lecturers, are hoping to program ethics into the core of computer science at UT. CS109, Ethical Foundations of Computer Science, is a one hour course...

Force sense technology describes the pressure-sensing capability of touchscreen displays, and you might have heard about it in regards to Apple’s relatively new Force Touch and 3D Touch technologies....

UT scientists aren’t loafing around: Chemically engineered yeast are rising to the occasion and producing chemicals for sustainable plastics. By rewiring the metabolism of Yarrowia lipolytica,...

T-cells might seem like just a small part of the human immune system, but they have the power to attack cancerous cells and other infectious invaders. Chenfeng He, a graduate student in the Jiang Lab...

Researchers from UT-Austin and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have teamed up to develop a new technique, called Deep TAMER, to teach robots and computer programs how to perform tasks with feedback from...

This past week, an update released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that influenza-like illness activity has reached 7.7 percent. To put this in perspective, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic...

Analyzing marine sediment samples collected from the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are gathering information to make new connections about climate change. Dr. Terrence Quinn, director of the University...

The flu isn’t the only health scare that’s going around this season. Two recently discovered computer chip vulnerabilities — ominously nicknamed Meltdown and Spectre — pose gigantic...

One UT professor will travel to France to continue her research on climate change, thanks to a grant from French President Emmanuel Macron. On June 1, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the...

New research from the Jackson School of Geosciences illuminates the history of the moon’s landscape.  In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters last month, a team of researchers...

Everything is bigger in Texas, and our computers are no exception. In 2011, UT won a competition held by the National Science Foundation to develop and house the first Stampede supercomputer. It was...

UT astronomers found evidence of six exocomets, or comets outside Earth’s solar system, 800 light-years away, using NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Comets are small, icy solar system bodies...

UT-Austin and Columbia University researchers have invented a millimeter-wave circulator that could enable tetherless virtual reality and self-driving cars. Circulators transmit microwave and radio...

It’s not often that tattoos are thought of as being as functional as they are decorative, but a group of researchers at UT-Austin are about to change that. They are developing “e-tattoos”...

Austin is about to be home to a 34,000-square-foot digital powerhouse.  Siemens will invest $14 million annually towards a new Digital Service Center in Austin, which will serve as a hub for their...

A new global research effort to study the brain’s decision-making process includes one UT-Austin neuroscience lab.   The International Brain Laboratory, IBL, is a virtual laboratory launched...

The Girl Scouts of Central Texas is taking the task of building prosthetics into their own hands. In collaboration with Wayside Sci-Tech Preparatory School, a group of girl scouts is building prosthetics...

On Sept. 15, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ended its 13-year mission with a “death dive” into Saturn. But this wasn’t a suicide mission: Cassini was actually following planetary protection...

Hurricane Harvey devastated huge areas of Texas, displacing families from their homes, causing irreparable damages to buildings and needlessly claiming innocent lives. When disaster strikes, it can be...

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, houses and buildings were left in ruins, forcing people out of their homes to seek shelter elsewhere. But humans weren’t the only species forced to adapt to the flooding.  Harvey...

Southwestern Medical Center are working to develop blood protein tests that could help diagnose those on the autism spectrum with greater than 90 percent accuracy. According to the group’s study,...

A group of researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center are working to develop blood protein tests that could help diagnose those on the autism spectrum with greater than 90 percent accuracy. According...

A June report from UT researchers measures the risk posed by lakes in the Himalayas in order to protect nearby communities from flooding. UT engineering professor Daene McKinney worked over the course...

Teams of UT faculty and Austin-area companies are crossing their fingers after submitting their proposals to Texas Health Catalyst on June 8 in hopes of being chosen as one of this year’s awardees. “Texas...