Four Texas State students were arrested last Wednesday during a protest on their campus. Similarly, UT saw multiple protests last week, and each time, the UT Police Department was standing by.
UTPD...
Students walking around campus may notice the occasional camera outside of a building or even between tree branches and fear that Big Brother is watching them, but campus officials said the cameras are...
Donating canned pineapple in 100% fruit juice can now help students and faculty avoid paying pricey parking fines and support UT Outpost, the food pantry and career closet on campus.
Food for Fines...
April showers bring May flowers, but not without the help of UT’s Landscape Services, who hand plant the colorful flowers around popular campus locations each year, such as the Littlefield Fountain.
Landscape...
With the push of a power-operated door button, UT’s buildings become accessible to everybody. But before students can use an accessible entrance, they have to find it. This is where UT’s new...
Plane tickets, suitcases and housing are a few things a student has to get in order before studying abroad. However, to prepare for her trip, Alicia Willoughby has been making changes to her diet.
Willoughby,...
When Roundup was first advertised as a homecoming event in 1930, the ad read “The Texas Round-Up! Welcomes Each and Every Visitor to the University of Texas Campus.’ However, after decades...
A new gaming organization that provides an inclusive and safe environment for players to meet fellow gamers will launch after spring break. However, this one’s just for the girls.
Sarah Schneider,...
South by Southwest has officially begun, through March 17. Badges range from $375 for a discounted student pass to $1,650 for a discounted student pass, leading some past and present University of Texas...
There are all sorts of animals living at UT, from the well-known turtles and squirrels to the less familiar, including bats and snakes.
Carin Peterson, Animal Make Safe training & outreach...
West Campus is full of high-rise apartment complexes and elevators that make it easier for students to access their rooms. However, for students like finance senior Amie Jean, out-of-service elevators...
When students apply to UT, they submit their preferred name to the University, however once they are admitted, their legal name is used in the directory and on class rosters. The Gender and Sexuality Center...
About five years after rescuing two kittens from a flood, a local bed-and-breakfast owner in West Campus has made it her goal to help as many cats as possible and find them forever homes.
Christina...
Two years after withdrawing from UT to pursue her love for art, Emily Ding will be bringing a pop of color back to the Forty Acres in an unexpected way.
UP Art Studio created the Mini Mural Project...
Every time a student turns on a light or plugs in their laptop, they spark the University power plant, which provides energy to the nearly 20 million square feet of UT property. The plant has a budget...
From the moment Mykaela Dunn sat in the Apollo 17 cockpit at Space Center Houston when she was six years old, she knew she wanted to be an astronaut. As her love for tinkering grew, she turned her sights...
Editor's note: This article has been updated to credit University Health Services as the source for food security statistics.
Last spring, UT Outpost opened its doors two days a week to help...
Zero waste on campus by 2020 has been a goal since UT President Gregory Fenves announced the Sustainability Master Plan in 2016. However, UT’s overall diversion rate of waste from landfills is only...
Like clockwork each month, students receive a text, an email and hear sirens echoing across campus for the monthly emergency communications systems test. While this is a routine procedure, there are many...
Frank Zambrano starts his day at 5:30 a.m. by unlocking the 183 campus buildings Custodial Services maintains. He has worked at UT since 1992 and is one of the 448 employees that help keep campus clean.
There...
Students less than 6 feet tall do not have to worry about being dunked on by someone a foot taller during an intramural basketball game with the return of a 6 foot and under league.
The 6 foot...
Each year, UT Parking and Transportation Services issues approximately 38,000 citations for traffic and parking violations on campus. PTS collects more than $1 million annually in fees, and the most frequent...
Menstrual hygiene products are now available free of charge in the Union and will soon be provided in the Student Activity Center thanks to Texas Orange Jackets, Women’s Resource Agency of Student...
Brenna Fox said she knew she had to pick up a job her second semester if she wanted to eat.
Fox, human development and family studies junior, is like the other 25 percent of UT students who have...
With the school year coming to an end, many students are already looking to next year and next year’s textbooks prices. However, Texas law prevents students from seeing their textbook prices until...
With finals right around the corner, this time of year can be extremely stressful for students across campus. However, a group of design students are creating a campaign to spread mental health awareness...
With summer right around the corner, students must decide if they want to take summer courses at a four-year university like UT or at a community college like Austin Community College.
Depending on...
While most baseball fans are relaxing and enjoying the game, Lauren Lichterman, operations and sustainability coordinator, and her team sort trash during and after each game.
The UFCU Disch-Falk Baseball...
The University offers numerous mental health resources for students on campus, but that doesn’t mean faculty and staff mental health is overlooked.
In a given year, one in five adults experience...
When students need to print something on campus, most pay for it using Bevo Bucks with the UT printing system. However, civil engineering junior Hannah Smith has $40 worth of free printing every semester,...
With a team of about 140 people and a single power plant that has been serving UT for decades, Juan Ontiveros said his team holds the power on campus.
Ontiveros, the associate vice president for Utilities,...
For more than 80 years, the UT Tower has represented what it means to be a Longhorn to students and alumni, all thanks to the Tower’s maintenance staff who keep the legacy going strong.
Neil Crump,...
Female students make up 52 percent of the student body, but only 41 percent of faculty and 25 percent of professors, according to the 2017–2018 UT Statistical Handbook.
Susan Somers-Willett, Center...
When environmental engineering sophomore Sandra Solis thought back about all the professors she has had during her time at UT, she was shocked to realize all but one of her professors were white males.
The...
While the slogan of “What starts here changes the world,” may seem like a UT cliche, the 1,838 UT alumni who have joined the Peace Corps are dedicating years to making this motto come to life.
“‘What...
As a first generation student from Laredo, Texas, Ilse Colchado felt out of place when she began her college journey. She felt underrepresented and lost — until she found her home at the Center for...
Many college students use transferable and dual credits as part of their college education, but because of a lack of communication, those credits often go unused. The Greater Texas Foundation gave UT $500,000...
The Counseling and Mental Health Center offers a number of services for the more than 50,000 students at UT. For those feeling lost or struggling with self-identity, the Voices Diversity Discussion Groups...
Female African-American and Hispanic students comprise a disproportionately small part of the science, technology, engineering and math students, according to the 2016 National Science Foundation’s...
UT President Gregory Fenves announced last week the administration is now seeking proposals for the new basketball arena. Two possible locations were named, one of which would replace both the Recreational...
Social work junior Traquana Smith said as a black woman on campus, it is really hard for her to have conversations with people about diversity, but she joined Longhorns for a Culturally Competent...
The search for the new vice president for the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement has begun, and UT President Gregory Fenves has announced a 13-member committee to search for a candidate to...
Once a year, UT hosts a full week of speakers and events outlining the importance of renewable energy — and what UT faculty and students are doing to help.
UT Energy Week is hosted by faculty...
On the first day of class, senior lecturer Megan Seaholm always asks her students how many of them are taking the class because they want to be there, and out of the 300 students in her lecture this semester,...
Unlike faculty, University staff do not generally have the opportunity to speak in front of classrooms full of students everyday. However, the UT Staff Toastmasters Club provides them a place to polish...
In 90 days, the Monaco sisters transformed a fish taco joint with surfboards hung on mustard-colored walls into their dream theater.
The Sylver Spoon Dinner Theater, located in New Braunfels,...
Children ran through the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center as their path was lit with thousands of luminarias and Christmas lights during the annual Luminations celebration.
The path around the center...
With students pushing to finish out the semester, the Counseling and Mental Health Center is seeing an increase in appointments to help students through this stressful time, said Katy Redd, CMHC associate...
Tiff’s Treats, the cookie delivery service that students use to celebrate special occasions or just as a late-night snack, announced a $25 million investment raised to help grow the company on Nov....
UT football fans may not think about the tons of food being wasted at every single game, but Texas Athletics does. This year, Texas Athletics partnered with the Central Texas Food Bank to donate leftover...
Teams of students in brightly colored shirts filled the LBJ Library Lawn to raise money for pediatric cancer patients on Saturday.
Dr. Qadri’s Cancer Heroes is part of the Dell Medical School...
The line into Hogg Memorial Auditorium stretched around the building Monday as students waited to hear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speak.
Nadella came to UT to talk about his experience at Microsoft...
People dressed in purple shirts held up illuminated purple glow sticks underneath the Texas Capitol on Sunday in remembrance of those lost to pancreatic cancer.
November is National Pancreatic Cancer...
Students who walked across the Main Mall on Saturday night ran into smoke and strobe lights from the first annual Fall Fall Fall Fest.
The concert was put together by Campus Events + Entertainment Headliners,...
AwesomenessTV CEO Jordan Levin returned to UT on Monday to give radio-television-film students advice about the film industry as a UT alumnus who was once in their position.
UT students have an...
On Friday, families from across the state and nation descended on UT for a three-day celebration of Family Weekend.
Barbecue, bowling and bingo were all events during the almost 100 -year-old tradition....
While some students spend game day cheering in the stands, students in the Sustainability Squad spend their game day sorting trash.
The Sustainability Squad is a group of students who sort waste into...
Participants can save three lives in ten minutes by donating their blood in the annual Texas Alpha Phi Omega Fall Blood Drive this week.
The drive is being held now through Friday in the Student...
For those who have lost a loved one to addiction, the Center for Students in Recovery is hosting the annual Ofrenda de Muertos this month to celebrate their lives and memories.
The ofrenda also celebrates...
College is a difficult time in any student’s life, but for those struggling with a physical or learning disability, it can be that much more challenging.
To combat this, the Texas Center for Disability...
If you walk by the Student Activity Center on a Friday afternoon, there is a good chance you will hear the sound of banjos, guitars and other instruments playing in harmony.
Burnt Orange Bluegrass is...
A Monday panel discussing the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals took on an urgent tone as the Thursday deadline to renew one’s status under the program quickly approaches.
A...
Volunteers and rescue dogs returned to campus on Sunday to walk and address an issue.
The third-annual Public Art Dog Walk hosted by Landmarks, the organization handling UT’s public art collection,...
It’s that time of year when students across campus are getting sick with the flu, and University Health Services hopes to prevent that from happening.
Today, UHS starts its four...
Out-of-state and international students are already a small percentage of the UT student body, and that number won’t be increasing anytime soon.
The automatic admissions rate is being lowered...
Thanks to a donation from the Cain Foundation, students can continue to study where the only other UT campus where you might run into Matthew McConaughey is located: Hollywood.
Earlier this month, the...
The LBJ Presidential Library brought in beloved characters from the PBS show “Sesame Street” to celebrate Austin Museum Day on Sunday and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon...
Vibrant paintings and ancient antiques line the walls of the Harry Ransom Center, taking viewers back to Mexico’s past.
Starting this Monday, “Mexico Modern,” assembled by guest curators...
