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Ten custodial staff members have...
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Mayor Steve Adler has extended the...
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The UT System further developed a...
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This week, over 1,000 COVID-19 contact...
The University of Texas System plans to reopen all its institutions in the fall, Chancellor James B. Milliken announced Thursday.
In a conversation with The Texas Tribune reporter Alana Rocha, Milliken...
Online summer classes will have increased capacity and reduced tuition rates, UT President Gregory Fenves and Interim President Designate Jay Hartzell announced in a Universitywide email.
The new summer...
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The School of Nursing suspended in-person...
UT-Permian Basin had been overstating their financial condition to the UT System for five years, according to the UT System Board of Regents meeting Feb. 26.
The System’s Office of the Controller...
The UT System approved a funding increase for the Archer Center to expand resources and make Washington, D.C., living costs more affordable for students.
The Archer Center is a UT System fellowship...
A task force was formed Wednesday to make the College of Liberal Arts more inclusive by surveying students and crafting diversity and equity action plans, said one of the force’s co-chairs.
Monique...
The UT System Board of Regents unanimously approved the establishment of a medical school at UT Health Science Center at Tyler on Thursday.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and other accrediting...
UT Police Department officer Dustin Farahnak responds to 911 calls between attending Texas Law classes, interning with the Travis County District Attorney, studying for the bar exam in July and caring...
Historically Black public colleges and universities are funded $2,500 less per student than the most prominent institutions in Texas, according to a Center for Public Policy Priorities study of the 2019...
The University of Texas at Tyler received an $80 million gift from the East Texas Medical Center Foundation on Wednesday for its medical school, which the UT System announced last week they will be establishing...
UT-Rio Grande Valley has the least graduate debt of public institutions in the nation, while UT-Austin graduates have double the amount of debt UTRGV has, according to U.S. News & World Report’s...
Texas is falling behind on its education goal, known as 60x30TX, which aims for 60% of the Texas population to earn a postsecondary degree or certificate by 2030, said the Texas higher education commissioner...
Although Texas Democratic Party leaders worry a new system for reporting votes in Texas will delay final delegate counts on primary election night March 3, the Texas secretary of state office said results...
The UT System announced plans to establish the only medical school in East Texas at a press conference Thursday.
Kirk Calhoun, president of the UT Health Science Center at Tyler, said the region...
UT students of color have filed testimonies with a civil rights association to defend the University’s affirmative action policy. The students are defending the policy against a national organization...
The Graduate Student Assembly and Texas Horns for Life are crafting University policies to assist student parents with balancing family care and studying.
Only six colleges at UT have an official parental...
The nursing labor shortage in Texas prompted the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to allocate $5 million to educational programs last Thursday.
The board gave the money to the Nursing, Allied...
Students will no longer have to mail state financial aid applications once the application goes online, starting in fall 2021.
The Texas Application for State Financial Aid is currently submitted...
An anti-abortion rally brought thousands of people to march to the Texas Capitol on Saturday, days after the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
The...
Education leaders met Thursday to discuss how colleges, universities and public schools will implement equity through methods such as requiring financial aid applications and funding lower-income school...
After observing makeshift court proceedings in tents and shipping containers and the conditions of encampments for asylum seekers across the border, the UT Law Immigration Clinic compiled a report that...
Financial aid, student records and registration information are now all available on one website.
The Texas One Stop website, finished on Nov. 21, consolidates information from the Office...
The UT System Board of Regents increased funding for staffing at various University concert halls during its meeting last month.
Stage Alliance provides theatrical stagehand staff for performances and...
Eight Hispanic professors held a public presentation with three members of the Texas House’s Mexican American Legislative Caucus Friday to report on issues of disparity they say they face at the...
The Monarch Student Program, part of the Longhorn Center for Academic Excellence, is revitalizing its efforts to reach out to high school students.
The program aims to help students brought to...
More than 30 students chanted, hung signs and called University officials outside the provost’s office Wednesday while protesting the University’s handling of faculty sexual misconduct.
Sit-In...
More than 30 students chanted, hung signs and called University officials outside the provost’s office Wednesday while protesting the University’s handling of faculty sexual misconduct.
Sit-In...
The UT Board of Regents approved $38.5 million to realign Red River Street and connect it to the existing Robert Dedman Drive.
The street will be realigned to open approximately four acres for the development...
After including “supply chain emissions,” a report updated last week by the Office of Sustainability shows how many metric tons of carbon dioxide was recently produced by the University.
According...
Hundreds of people rallied outside the Texas attorney general’s office Tuesday as the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could decide the fate of young undocumented people,...
Ambient music filled the air around a luminescent dome of leaves and sticks as onlookers explored the mysterious Waller Creek Monster Habitat.
The display is one of the light sculptures that make up...
The University announced a $130 million grant from the Moody Foundation will go toward the construction of the new basketball arena at the football game Saturday.
The arena will be named the Moody Center...
Rhie Morris said she slept outside a medical facility when she was homeless to make sure she didn’t miss an appointment for a stomachache. But after she missed the appointment and scheduled another...
The College of Liberal Arts, UT’s second largest college, created a new position this semester as a mediator for faculty and staff and to promote diverse recruitment.
COLA dean Ann Huff Stevens...
The city of Austin and the University are collaborating to study how green spaces in schoolyards impact children’s health and activity.
On Thursday, Austin City Council approved...
The Texas Union will be closed until Sunday due to a water leak that flooded the Union Underground.
James Buckley, director of facilities and operations for University Unions, said the Union noticed...
In 2016, psychology professor Francisco Gonzalez-Lima was awarded the top amount of grants in his department, amounting to more than $7 million. He was among the top published professors in his departmentand...
Colorful aquarium fish have invaded Waller Creek.
The creek’s population of platy fish, native to northern Mexico, has reached the thousands according to research done by environmental science...
The Campus Environmental Center created a new committee to address the intersection of social issues and the environmental protection movement.
The committee, called the Environmental Justice Committee,...
Project Management and Construction Services is building an accessible pathway between Inner Campus Drive and 21st Street, replacing some of the stairs with ramps in the area.
Jill Stewart is...
University composting loads are racking up hundreds of dollars in contamination fees per week. University Resource Recovery, which is responsible for reusing campus resources, said students should toss...
During her freshman year, Naili Salehuddin, who is legally blind, got lost for two hours trying to find her classroom.
Advertising sophomore Salehuddin said she was looking for her Chinese class...
A meeting this Thursday between a student health organization and a local produce distributor will determine the fate of a weekly UT program which provides produce to the UT community.
Acccording to...
Sustainability Resources has collected more than 200 pounds of used batteries since placing battery recycling bins throughout campus in March.
Sustainability Resources, a department of University Housing...
The turtle pond no longer has sewage flowing beneath it due to construction of a new sewage line, which diverts waste from the Main Building.
Jim Shrull, the sewer project manager at Utilities and Energy...
The new Center for Career Exploration and Development, which will give recruiters a renovated space to meet with students, is moving into its design phase.
The facility on the second floor of the Flawn...
More than a thousand Austin students led a local protest against climate change Friday as a part of hundreds of similar worldwide youth-led demonstrations.
The “Global Climate Strike” was...
UT implemented a wave of regulations on dockless scooters in the spring, which stadium attendees now face during the new football season.
UT Parking and Transportation banned scooters around the...
Baseball and softball players will soon be able to avoid the Texas heat because new extensions to the Red and Charline McCombs Field will add an indoor training facility for both teams.
The facility...
UT is planning to develop Waller Creek by improving its walkability, environmental health and stability.
The Waller Creek Framework Plan spells out recommendations for existing campus construction projects...
Students can get their student records, financial aid and tuition services all in the same place starting in the spring of 2020.
The Texas One Stop for Enrollment Services center will offer the student...
The Student Advisory Council to the UT System met this weekend to discuss supportive resources for sexual assault victims, international students and “at-risk” students across their campuses.
The...
Prospective student tours will be welcomed in the center of campus instead of on the other side of Guadalupe Street.
The new $5 million Admissions Welcome Center will be located inside the Perry-Castañeda...
MoZZo, a new Italian restaurant in the Texas Union, opened on Aug. 26 and serves made-to-order bowls, wraps and Tuscan waffles on a stick.
Adam Weisberg, owner and founder of MoZZo, also created...
In an effort to save money and improve efficiency, Project Management and Construction Services has consolidated five separate buildings’ renovations under the Campus Infrastructure Upgrades project.
The...
Actor and UT alumnus Matthew McConaughey is joining the faculty of the Moody College of Communication as a film professor of practice starting this semester.
He was appointed by Jay Bernhardt,...
Hand scanners will be used to swipe student residents into Jester 2nd Floor Dining and Kinsolving Dining Hall this semester.
When residents picked up their keys for their dorms during Mooov-In, they...
As the fall 2019 semester begins, students should expect to see several major construction projects continuing from the summer.
Welch Hall renovations are in the final phases and are scheduled to finish...
The University received $24.5 million from the UT System Board of Regents on Aug. 15 to convert the Anna Hiss Gymnasium into a robotics research space by spring 2021.
As part of The UT Board of Regents’...
Keep Austin Wizard is petitioning the University to convert to entirely renewable energy sources by 2035.
The local student chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance, a nonprofit organization run primarily...
As Jewish student leaders played music, sold food and brought camels to showcase Israeli culture Tuesday, Palestinian counter-protesters marched up and down Speedway chanting and waving signs.
The...
Hispanic professors at UT are the lowest paid faculty and have often been excluded from higher positions, according to an ongoing committee analysis.
The Independent Equity Committee consists of...
As housing contracts are sent out for the coming school year, some transgender students have to navigate more gender-inclusive housing options.
Housing is assigned by the gender a student...
The on-campus University United Methodist Church said they will not go along with the national denomination’s recent vote to uphold the ban on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage within the church.
The...
Three members of the Texas Legislature’s LGBTQ caucus said their priorities this session were to increase representation for and reduce discrimination against members of the LGBTQ community on Tuesday.
The...
University of Texas scholars and Mexican officials gathered to brainstorm ideas for community development in Mexico during a two-day summit Monday and Tuesday.
The Puentes Initiative, led by Ricardo...
Cybersecurity operations help fight terrorism overseas and prevent Russian and North Korean hacking of United States facilities, Brig. Gen. Jennifer Buckner said during a talk at UT on Thursday.
Buckner...
A United Nations World Food Program initiative has expanded its campus ambassador program to UT-Austin.
The ShareTheMeal initiative, a crowdfunding smartphone application that fights global hunger,...
The University will participate in a new multi-institution collaborative effort to award more degrees to low-income, first-generation and minority students.
The Powered by Publics initiative collects...
UT professors and graduate students began teaching at the Gardner Betts Juvenile Detention Center this fall as part of the Texas Prison Education Initiative.
The initiative, which started in 2017, is...
In response to the growing number of start-ups on campus, the Office of Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurship launched late last month as part of an attempt to reach out to minority students.
The...
Old and new volumes of books line the shelves in the fifth floor of the newly renovated Fine Arts Library.
The renovations were unveiled last week and include 60 new study desks, new paint and carpet,...
UT’s Graduate School launched the Faculty Ambassador program Oct. 18 to expand international recruiting efforts.
The program allocates additional funding for a faculty member’s existing...
A crowd of about 40 students surrounded by officers from the UT Police Department gathered on the West Mall on Wednesday to debate Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA founder and executive director.
Turning...
UT law professors appeared in Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s recent campaign video titled “Elizabeth Warren’s family story.”
The video gathered professors from the universities...
A $300,000 grant was awarded to civil engineering associate professor Salvatore Salamone last month for his pipeline safety research.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration awarded...
Axios, an online media company, held a discussion on Friday with entrepreneurs about technology integration and business management as part of Axios’s Smarter Faster Revolution campus tours.
The...
The University approved a gender-inclusive bathroom in Burdine as part of the hall’s renovations after a year of faculty advocacy.
The President’s Advisory Committee on LGBTQ...
As the number of students seeking mental health services rises, the Counseling and Mental Health Center is increasing their efforts to raise awareness of the signs of mental disorders.
A...
In advance of the Nov. 6 election, UT’s Habitat for Humanity is campaigning for students to vote for a $250 million bond that aims to make Austin housing more affordable.
Proposition A allocates...
The Civic Engagement Alliance, in conjunction with TX Votes, gathered representatives from 78 campus organizations to encourage voter registration among their members, students and the Austin community.
Representatives...
The Campus Environmental Center relocated their microfarm from a fifth-acre plot to a half-acre plot at the Whitaker Intramural Fields on Guadalupe Street.
In conjunction with UT Recsports,...
Students from the Cockrell School of Engineering gathered Saturday to swim, listen to music and eat a buffet of food at Cockrell Kickoff, an annual event that allows engineering students to gather and...
