Police are continuing to search for a freshman wide receiver for Texas A&M University who has been missing since Monday evening.
Thomas Linze Johnson, 18, was last seen leaving his residence in College...
UT officials are in Washington, D.C., today for oral arguments in a Supreme Court case whose outcome will have implications for how universities can factor race into admission decisions.
Abigail Fisher...
The City of Austin will implement city-wide water restrictions Tuesday in response to declining water levels in Lake Travis and Lake Buchanan.
Restrictions will enter stage two of the city’s four...
UT President William Powers Jr. and Thomas Gilligan, dean of the McCombs School of Business, announced the results of the first UT Energy Poll in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
The poll, conducted by...
Storms on Saturday night brought much needed rain to the city, and the unexpected weather also caused some minor damage to power lines and tree limbs.
Afternoon showers on Saturday and overnight storms...
UT employees had the opportunity to learn about what it takes to live a healthy lifestyle at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus on Saturday.
The Commons Learning Center at the Pickle Campus and UT’s...
School of Architecture
After losing three prominent professors in the past year, the School of Architecture’s answer to balancing a difficult budget has been to replace two positions with...
A federal appeals court handed down a win for UT in a lawsuit examining its consideration of race in admissions decisions, but the case could still have life if the plantiffs take it to the U.S. Supreme...
Daily Texan staff members sat on the plaza of the Jesse H. Jones Communication Center on Thursday evening after learning paint masks were not enough to protect them from potentially toxic fumes in their...
The UT System released 821 pages of information about each faculty member in the system’s nine academic institutions Thursday, including their salaries, number of semester hours taught and research...
When the cranes clear out, the East Mall fountain turns on and students move into the new College of Liberal Arts building in spring 2013, the end result will be $10 million cheaper and have 16,000...
In the days and weeks immediately following the morning of the Sept. 11 attacks, journalism graduate student Avery Holton said many of his friends joined the military.
He said joining the military...
UT and Texas A&M found common ground on the importance of academic research during a higher education conference Friday.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank, hosted...
It will cost more for Longhorn fans to enjoy the pre-football game sacraments of beer and grilled food if a Parking and Transportation Services proposal on tailgating passes.
The University will...
UT administrators will continue to explore ways to incorporate technology into academics without compromising University values in the face of dwindling state funds, President William Powers Jr. wrote...
Gold and green may not be UT’s colors, but the University may be seeing more of both.
Beginning in September 2009, the University of Texas Investment Management Company spent $767 million...
Students pay more than what it costs universities to educate them, according to a report released by a higher education research center.
In the policy paper “Who Subsidizes Whom?” three...
UT System Board of Regents officials may have made the controversial hire of a special adviser without the necessary recommendation from the chancellor, according to emails obtained by the Houston Chronicle.
In...
UT Medical Branch at Galveston may appeal last week’s decision by the Texas Attorney General that requires it to release a portion of the documents an animal rights group requested under the Freedom...
To close a $200,000 gap in the University’s shuttle service budget, the Enfield Road shuttle route will likely be combined with a mainline city route.
The proposed route will serve most of...
To close a $200,000 gap in the University’s shuttle service budget, the Enfield Road shuttle route will likely be combined with a mainline city route.
The proposed route will serve most of...
After student protests and months of examining and adjusting recommended cuts, three more Special Academic Centers will no longer receive funding from the College of Liberal Arts, Dean Randy Diehl announced...
UT’s president and the UT System chancellor are the second- and third-highest paid public university executives in the country, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
In total take-home...
The Office of Business Affairs, which directs University Lands, sold almost $250 million of oil and gas leases Wednesday during its most lucrative semiannual lease sale in history.
The sale included...
University officials, state lawmakers and a UT alumni association have all voiced their support for University research after the UT System hired a controversial academic adviser last month...
After hiring a $200,000-per-year adviser, the University of Texas System Board of Regents reassigned him last week and released a letter Friday addressing concerns about the Boards commitment to academic...
University President William Powers Jr., said he opposes a campus-wide ban on smoking in his annual address to UT staff on Thursday.
Powers told Staff Council a complete ban on smoking would overstep...
After falling in the Times Higher Education World University Ranking survey for the past six years, the University chose not to participate in last years survey.
At Mondays faculty council meeting,...
Editors Note: This is the final installation in a four-part series examining the sources of UTs funding.
The Universitys self-funding enterprises, research money and University land income make...
Tuition at five of the UT Systems six health institutions will increase for the 2011-2012 academic year after the UT System Board of Regents approved the increases via teleconference Friday.
The presidents...
Faculty and administrators are redesigning large, entry-level undergraduate classes to better engage students with hopes they will learn and retain more from the courses.
The University, with funding...
Editors note: This is the third in a four-part series examining the sources of UTs funding.
UT tuition has approximately doubled during the past decade, and it funds more of the Universitys overall...
At a Hyde Park house where 12 UT students speak to one another in Arabic, a hair stylist new to the country offered haircuts as an opportunity to build her clientele base Sunday.
Intesaar Abu-Jus, 47,...
UT staff will soon have similar conflict resolution resources as faculty and students. Interviews for a new staff ombudsperson position began Thursday.
UT Staff Council recommended that President William...
The U.S. Supreme Court began to hear a case Monday that could change the rules governing the intellectual property rights to inventions from University research.
Intellectual property licensing...
Editor’s note: This is the second in a four-part series examining the sources of UT’s funding.
As the University’s budget has grown over the past 10 years, the percentage of state...
The University can offer its health plan to graduate and postdoctoral research fellows if lawmakers approve a bill currently in the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs.
The Texas Insurance Code...
Texas A&M’s medical school accepted more applicants for the class entering next year than it has room for, said an A&M administrator.
Thomas Shomaker, dean of A&M’s College...
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a four-part series examining the sources of UT’s funding.
The University’s $3 billion capital campaign has received more donations in 2011 than...
A UT student presented a resolution to the UT System Board of Regents on Thursday suggesting that they change the system investment policy, which the student said disregards the social and political...
The Faculty Council unanimously passed its second resolution in two years affirming the current ban on concealed firearm carry on campus at a Monday meeting.
According to the resolution, the carrying...
Certain faculty members currently weigh in twice on University personnel decisions, said a faculty council member.
The council unanimously passed a resolution Monday to eliminate the practice,
English...
Rivals in the stands, on the hardwood and on the gridiron, UT and Texas A&M alumni will collaborate Tuesday to ask the Texas Legislature to invest in the state’s higher education budget for...
A plastic bottle likely exploded Tuesday afternoon on the South Mall near Homer Rainey Hall on the southwest side of the Six Pack, said a University Operations spokeswoman.
Cindy Posey said someone...
The UT System Board of Regents elected new chairs Tuesday in a special meeting via telephone.
The nine-member board chose San Antonio real estate developer Eugene Powell to replace Colleen McHugh as...
The University has made little progress to correct the gender inequities identified by the 2008 Gender Equity Report.
The report made by a provost’s task force found inequities for female...
UTs consideration of race as a factor for undergraduate admissions may once again go before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for consideration.
The plaintiffs in the case, Abigail Fisher, et...
Mack Browns new assistant coaching staff will cost almost $3.7 million this season.
Brown, UTs head football coach and the states highest paid employee, leads a nine-member assistant coaching...
Gov. Rick Perry appointed on Tuesday two new members to the UT System Board of Regents and re-appointed another.
The governors office issued a press release Tuesday morning announcing the appointments....
Despite the nations high unemployment rate, University graduates job prospects are improving, career service administrators said. Outside companies posted 51 percent more jobs University-wide in 2010...
UTs new network with ESPN could lose points with the NCAA if it airs high school athletics events, a Texas A&M University official said.
A&M Athletic Director Bill Byrne said because of the networks...
Only five of the University’s 18 schools and colleges created and posted plans to address gender inequality in the faculty that a special task force reported in 2008.
The University’s...
More UT students who go to the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center have urgent needs or serious mental health issues than in the past, according to center administrators.
This trend parallels...
A principle inventor of Ethernet joined the Cockrell School of Engineering this month as its only professor of innovation.
Robert Metcalfe brings years of private sector and large-scale commercialization...
A Texas A&M University System regulation may limit professors’ ability to teach about the Texas Public Information Act, according to several UT journalism professors.
The regulation, which...
Leah Johnson was 16 years old when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. She spent the rest of her teenage years resisting Nazi forces from within Poland as part of a Jewish resistance group.
Johnson escaped...
To unify the black community on campus, students need to take the time to get to know individuals, rather than make assumptions based on stereotypes, said education senior Cierra Campbell.
Campbell...
It’s likely that Republican midterm gains in Congress won’t lead to a federal ban on same-sex marriage, a UT law professor said Wednesday.
However, constitutional law expert Dan...
Civil engineering senior Christine Fuentes said she has experienced breast cancer through a family friend who was diagnosed with the disease in 2006.
Fuentes and about 20 students danced to hip-hop...
The Texas Legislature has failed to address climate change issues because, among other reasons, the state’s economy is based on fossil fuels, a UT geology professor said Wednesday.
Jay Banner...
