For some UT students, Austin is their classroom and people are their subjects.
Last spring, journalism lecturer Diana Dawson challenged her students to learn about the faces behind current issues. Her...
UT’s sprawling campus leaves little room to park your car and not much space between buildings. Although some may not find sprawling vegetation on campus, it’s not far. Austin is home to more...
Update on Aug. 5, 3:30 p.m. - Headline has been changed to clarify study's findings.
To increase your chances of getting good grades in college, follow these steps: sleep in blue clothing with an...
Early voter turnout for the Texas runoffs in Travis County is looking to be lower than early voting in the May primaries. This trend is not new and some expect voter turnout for the runoffs to be lower...
After months of being off the air, UT alumnus Zach Anner is back with a new internet-powered travel show premiering this month.
Anner, a 2009 alumnus and former member of Texas Student Television,...
UTPD has joined forces with the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force to investigate the ongoing student kidnapping and accident phone scams. Managed by the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI, the Joint...
An off duty Capital Metro employee fatally shot himself on bus No. 302 Tuesday evening.
The incident occurred at 8:40 p.m. on the 3100 block of Red River Street in Austin, across the street from St. David’s...
A demolition permit for a house owned by the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity was halted late last month by the Austin Historic Landmark Commission after claiming that the house could be designated a historic...
A team of researchers at UT’s Radionavigation Laboratory recently hacked into the GPS system of a non-encrypted drone, allowing them to take full control of the vehicle.
Assistant engineering professor...
Ten years ago, UT professors pioneered a way to virtually reconstruct and then examine the internal structures of once living specimens without damaging the object of interest.
Using high-resolution X-ray...
Update at 2:00 p.m. - Tuesday evening thunderstorms amounted to an average of about .18 inches of rainfall on campus, saving UT about 313,043 gallons of water. The Tower’s rain gauge recorded .16...
The University of Texas ranked 30th in a list of the top 100 universities in the world released July 1 by The Center for World University Rankings.
The rankings attempted to measure the quality of education...
The Texas Military Forces and the University of Texas at Austin have reached an agreement allowing students who serve in the National Guard to maintain their military tuition assistance.
The agreement,...
Occupy UT, a student activist group, recently released a “Disorientation Field Manual” on their website to inform incoming students about their message.
The manual contains information about...
Alan Turing would have been 100 years-old on June 23. Although he died in 1954, his work in computer science and artificial intelligence lives on today.
Three university scholars discussed Turing’s...
UT’s first community garden, The UT Concho Community Garden, is expanding and innovating after weathering last year’s extreme drought conditions.
The garden, located on 2108 Concho St., consists...
Beginning July 2013, some Austin residents may be required to dial an area code other than the well known ‘512’ to reach local areas in the city.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas, a...
Mark Gobble, a 2012 UT alumnus, died in a hit-and-run incident while jogging on a sidewalk near West Slaughter Lane and Vinemont Drive in southwest Austin on Sunday morning.
Gobble, 37, was a husband...
Austin-based smart grid researchers conducted field trials in the North Austin Mueller neighborhood and found more efficient ways to place solar panels and measure energy consumption.
The preliminary...
After four long years and more than $100,000 in development costs, the Austin Historical Survey Wiki was officially launched at City Hall on Sunday afternoon.
The project, developed in-house at the University...
Texas is still abnormally dry and will likely continue to be in a drought throughout the summer, despite less severe drought conditions.
Currently, 97.37 percent of Texas is facing abnormally dry conditions,...
