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UT will offer almost 60% of spring classes online with a similar number of courses having online, hybrid and in-person modality as in the fall semester. Students living in residence halls may...
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The UT System Board of Regents unanimously approved Jay Hartzell as permanent president of the University on Sept. 21 after he served as interim president since June 1.
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Around 125,000 more ballots were cast in Travis County for the 2020 general election than during the 2016 election.
In 2016, 477,588 ballots were cast, while 602,398 were cast this year. Among...
Texas House Member Democrat Gina Hinojosa was winning Texas’s District 49 with 53% as of 11:10 p.m. Tuesday evening, according to Decision Desk.
Hinojosa has represented District 49 for...
Around 9,000 people voted at UT’s two polling locations since early voting began Oct. 13, according to the Travis County Clerk website as of Monday evening.
Overall, 234,016 people have voted...
Italian and French departments are teaching their classes through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous class structures and have found mixed results in learning a language online.
Nancy...
Early voting for the Nov. 3 general election begins Tuesday, which will include voting for the U.S. presidential election and the U.S. senate election.
Travis County residents can vote at polling...
Republican incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Democrat candidate MJ Hegar discussed issues such as COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement Friday night during the United States Senate debate.
The first...
UT President Jay Hartzell announced Tuesday UT’s plans and progress in engaging the University in conversations about campus culture, including creating a committee to “chronicle the full history”...
All Texas counties can have only one location for dropping off mail-in ballots by hand starting Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott said in a proclamation Thursday.
The parking garage at 700 Lavaca St. will...
More uniform government responses to COVID-19 may have helped limit the pandemic’s reach in the United States, infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said Tuesday afternoon during a live recording.
As...
The McCombs School of Business has partnered with Austin-based company Contextual Content Group to project “holographic professors” into classrooms to make digital learning better for students,...
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include information from a Wednesday afternoon press briefing.
The UT Board of Regents unanimously approved Jay Hartzell as the permanent president...
State Rep. Celia Israel, D-Austin, said there are over two dozen Democrat-affiliated groups working to flip the Texas House of Representatives from red to blue in the November election.
Israel and State...
Dell Medical School is implementing the Health Equity Strategic Map, a five-category plan focused on reducing health inequalities in medical education and research, according to its website.
Health...
Editor’s note: This is an update to a story that was originally published on Sept. 10.
UT reported three coronavirus case clusters in West Campus with collectively about 100 positive cases on...
Campus life this fall is a little surreal, and it feels like a poorly attended day in the summer, UT Interim President Jay Hartzell said.
Hartzell sat down to talk about his plans for handling...
Calculating the number of COVID-19 tests administered through University Health Services and their average positivity rate would be too complex because of pop-up testing sites and other rules about self-reporting,...
While uncertainty still remains about the next Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, legislators say the first thing to remember for the Texas House is getting things done.
To kick off the...
Since the University reopened for the fall semester, new building certification processes were put in place to prevent COVID-19 from spreading, a University spokesperson said.
Every building reopened...
“Less lethal” beanbag rounds Austin Police Department used during protests against police brutality in May and June can cause serious injuries, according to a report Dell Medical School researchers...
Restaurants on The Drag and in West Campus have closed or changed their hours in the past months to accomodate for COVID-19 and the lack of customers.
Many businesses also implemented new guidelines...
More than 50 organizations across Texas have partnered together to form the Texas Global Health Security Innovation Consortium to alleviate the effects of COVID-19 and future pandemics.
The consortium...
Update as of 8/15 at 4:39 p.m.:
Austin Police Chief Brian Manley hosted a virtual media briefing Thursday about the new budget passed by the Austin City Council, saying the budget cuts would result...
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UT’s Texas One Stop, the Office...
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Fricano’s Deli, a well-known...
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Gov. Greg Abbott announced a partnership...
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UT-Austin has moved all summer new...
UT-Austin President Gregory Fenves is expected to announce his departure from UT to become president of Emory University, according to The Texas Tribune and 247Sports.
Elaine Justice, Emory University’s...
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Forty-nine students who returned...
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive...
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The University will hold a virtual...
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Austin Mayor Steve Adler issued a shelter-in-place...
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The Austin-Travis County Health Authority...
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Austin officials held a news...
The University will extend spring break for students by one week in response to COVID-19 concerns, according to a Wednesday press release.
In the release, UT President Gregory Fenves said on-campus...
The Democratic primary race between incumbent Margaret Moore, 53rd District Attorney, and challenger José Garza will most likely go into a runoff.
Although Garza gained a lead as votes tallied...
In an effort to reinstate the ordinance limiting where people experiencing homelessness can camp, an Austin-based nonprofit started a petition Feb. 24 to put the issue on the November 2020 ballot.
Save...
Planned Parenthood opened up a new clinic less than a block away from campus, making it the nonprofit’s fourth location in Austin.
Planned Parenthood is a health care provider that delivers...
The Still Water Foundation donated $5 million to the Blanton Museum of Art to remodel the building’s exterior, according to a UT press release on Tuesday.
The foundation donated an additional...
Wingstop, a chicken wing restaurant chain, will open a new location on The Drag in summer 2020.
There are currently eight Wingstop locations in Austin, according to the Wingstop website. As of...
A federal judge dismissed a two-year class-action lawsuit Monday in which eight women, three of whom are UT alumna, claimed Austin and Travis County officials did not properly handle their sexual assault...
UT scientists have engineered strains of bacteria that could live in the guts of honey bees and protect them from mites and viruses, according to a UT press release.
The strains would also protect...
A report from the city of Austin concluded that people of color are stopped in their motor vehicles at disproportionately higher rates than their share of the Austin population.
The report released...
The Jackson School of Geosciences received $10.5 million last week from The Munib and Angela Masri Foundation to create an endowment that will support graduate studies at the school.
The...
A partnership between UT and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation will provide certain incoming Pell-eligible freshmen with $20,000 in financial support starting fall 2020, according to a UT press release...
FotoFinder uses artificial intelligence to track and identify cancerous moles from photographs it takes of patients’ bodies, said Dr. Adewole Adamson, a UT Health Austin dermatologist. UT Health...
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved an evaluation of co-requisite models Thursday, requiring students to take an additional course to assist them if they have not demonstrated college...
UT Police Department Chief David Carter said he plans to increase West Campus patrols and implement a new camera security system near campus at a press conference Monday.
This conference came after...
A new study by linguists and biologists from UT and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History tracked the evolution of sign languages around the world over the past few centuries.
The...
UT President Gregory Fenves sent a campuswide email Sunday regarding safety near campus following the stabbing of two UT students last week.
“Incidents like this serve as a reminder that we must...
A UT associate professor helped establish the first academic research unit dedicated to the ideas and works of American philosopher John Dewey in India earlier this month.
Scott Stroud, a communication...
Don Japanese Kitchen reopened its popular food truck behind the University Co-op at noon Wednesday after closing its brick-and-mortar store on Guadalupe Street earlier this month.
“(Don) is kind...
The Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas is expanding by hiring more professionals and partnering with pediatric epilepsy leaders throughout the state.
The...
After the UT Police Department noticed a spike in bike thefts this fall, they are recommending students register their bikes to keep them safe.
UTPD spokesperson Noelle Newton said 54 bikes have...
Electric bike company Wheels will launch the operation of their bikes in Austin at the end of November.
Todd Maron, chief legal officer at Wheels, said the company has bikes in six major cities throughout...
Austin businesses want to build relationships with the University and understand how important sustainability issues are to the current generation, a UT official said Tuesday at a panel.
“BASF,...
To celebrate the five-year anniversary of naming the Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations, the school will add a student advertising and public relations workspace to the Belo Media...
The McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering will establish the Norbert Dittrich-Welch Chair in Chemical Engineering following a $2.5 million donation by the Welch Foundation, a private funding source...
Along with cooler temperatures, the fall season is bringing swarms of crickets to the UT campus.
Alexander Wild, UT curator of entomology, said this mass emergence of crickets occurs annually but is...
UT hosted a fireside chat Monday with former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative to promote their new Good Systems initiative, which focuses on improving aritifical intelligence...
SafeHorns hosted their fourth annual National Night Out in West Campus, where community members met first responders, played games and had free food.
Hundreds of people met with the UT Police Department,...
UT alumna Dr. Aamna Najam had worked just one week as an audiologist before she died in a motorcycle accident in August. Now, her family is starting a memorial scholarship to honor her.
“Education...
The Latino Studies department welcomed students back to classes Thursday with music, a churro bar and free T-shirts.
The annual celebration, known as ¡Bienvenida!, is meant to help students socialize...
