In 1938, 16 animals were featured in the Travis County Baby Beef Show at Congress Avenue and 11th Street.
Rodeo Austin has come a long way from its humble beginnings, but it hasn’t forgotten its...
Three Texas women’s divers will strive for small splashes at this week’s NCAA Zone Diving Championships in Iowa City.
Juniors Shelby Cullinan, Samantha Holland and Diana Wilcox will compete...
After months of brutal drought in Texas, a seed of hope is finding its way through cracked soil during the upcoming wildflower season.
Wildflowers are fairly well adapted to drought and germinate based...
With the passage of a new city ordinance that will ban the use of disposable bags next year, some Austin grocers may have to alter parts of their stores in order to comply with the ban.
The ordinance...
Federal court officials in San Antonio created five congressional House districts in Travis County on Tuesday, outlined by newly drawn maps.
The maps will be used for the upcoming primaries and potentially...
Mid-semester course evaluations allow professors to incorporate student feedback into their course before moving on to a new batch of students.
The Center for Learning and Teaching met Wednesday with...
Upon leaving the 40 Acres, many UT alumni have gone on to win Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, compete in professional sports, establish major corporations and serve as members of Congress.
The contributions...
After four days at the Big 12 Championships in Columbia, Mo., the Longhorns returned home to Austin with a second place finish to Texas A&M.
Head coach Kim Brackin had hoped for better. And so had...
Rick Santorum fared better than other Republican candidates by a significant margin in a recent UT and Texas Tribune poll.
The data was collected from Feb. 8 to 15 in the midst of the increasing media...
After four days of trailing behind Texas A&M in the lanes and on the boards, Texas placed second in the Big 12 Championships in Columbia, Mo.
The Longhorns arrived in Missouri to start racing on Wednesday,...
Influenced by personal experiences with nerve damage, a former UT football player is now funding research to help others who have facing similar conditions.
Doug English, the president of Lone Star Paralysis,...
Eighteen members of the women's swimming and diving team will grab their swim bags and head to Columbia, Mo. for the Big 12 Championships on Wednesday with thoughts of rivalry tucked beneath their...
Receiving the Big 12 Swimmer of the Week award is an honor for any swimmer. Senior swimmer Karlee Bispo has now had that honor four times this season.
Last week, she became the first female swimmer in...
Texas sales tax revenue reached the $2 billion mark last month for the second time since November, indicating that the economy is gradually recovering and people are spending more on luxury goods.
A letter...
When Dan Wallrath heard a movie was being made chronicling his father Dick Wallrath’s alcoholism and later rise to success, he didn’t quite believe it would happen.
“I thought they were...
Olympic dreams have long been in the making for swimming stars Karlee Bispo and Laura Sogar, but they aren’t letting the looming trials cramp their style in the pool during collegiate competition.
Bispo,...
Despite University and high school officials discouraging prospective UT students from attending Roundup weekend activities, students in Greek organizations don’t expect less high-schooler turnout.
The...
In Texas, it isn't unusual to hear a “y'all” tossed around in casual conversation, but the tone of language we use differs depending on whom we're talking to, according to a new...
UT soccer player Kylie Doniak is still in critical condition but is showing signs of improvement, according to an Austin American-Statesman article released today.
Doniak, an award-winning forward, was...
Oral contraception users on campus are worried after at least one million defective birth control pill packets have been pulled from the shelves in a national recall by Pfizer Inc.
The company recalled...
On meet days, freshman thrower Ryan Crouser washes his shoes and weight belt and carefully re-inscribes his name on his discus. Then, sometimes, he gulps down a 64-ounce bottle of orange juice.
“It...
Family instability may negatively affect student performance in rigorous high schools and impact decisions to attend college, according to a new study on family backgrounds. Sociology associate professor...
National dialogue about food production and consumption hits home with UT students in the new Food Studies Project.
The group held a live viewing party of the Jan. 21 TEDxManhattan conference, “Changing...
Victoria Rodriguez, the University’s vice provost and dean of graduate studies, is stepping down after nine years in the role and returning to the LBJ School of Public Affairs as a professor and...
In the aftermath of the Texas wildfires, thousands of families found their homes destroyed and their belongings in ashes. Some UT students helped restore residents’ property — and their hope...
Ninety-two percent of UT graduate students surveyed would recommend the University to friends, according to a student satisfaction survey the University conducted.
Sociology professor Chandra Muller led...
Local Austin musician Matt the Electrician will perform at Cactus Cafe’s last concert on Dec. 10 before the venue closes briefly for construction over the winter break.
The cafe is set to close...
Smiles came easily whenever the late Austin musician Stevie Ray Vaughan was around because of his positive spirit and the revolutionary sound of his music, said music photographer and friend Susan Antone.
“When...
The eyes of Texas gazed down upon 2,000 red candles burning with Longhorn pride as students gathered to hex that “other” Texas public university before Thursday’s game.
The Texas Exes...
When searching for an academic institution to partner with for research purposes, SunGard Availability Services needed a great city and a top-rate institution. They found both in a recent partnership with...
A colorful world map covered with pins placed by Longhorns on cities in which they have studied abroad was mounted in the map room of the Perry-Castañeda Library earlier this week and was unveiled...
Bill Moyers was preparing to pursue a Ph.D. when he received a call from Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was running for president and sought Moyers’ assistance. Moyers deviated from his plans for a doctorate...
When architecture professor Larry Speck helped design Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, he tried to prevent the crowded feeling he often felt walking through ordinary airports, he said.
“I...
On the morning of Dec. 16, 750 underprivileged Texas children will head out to a parking lot full of bicycles, knowing that one of those bikes will be theirs to take home.
Local Austin bike shop Mellow...
It is a nation’s duty to record the truth through archives and to overcome the challenges of assembling those archives, said John Ciorciari, assistant professor of public policy at the University...
Nothing screams Halloween quite like a theremin — that is, the musical instrument used to create spooky sounds in early Hollywood blockbusters such as “Spellbound” and “The Day...
The plant kingdom has been a source of inspiration for the management of the human population, said Lesley Stern, a professor at the University of California in San Diego.
Stern spoke to the Department...
China is an architectural powerhouse with new projects constantly underway, said Qingyun Ma, dean of architecture at the University of Southern California.
Ma presented a multitude of projects currently...
UT President William Powers Jr. released a statement Monday discussing the Campaign for Texas, a fundraising effort that has raised more than $1.7 billion for the University.
UT uses the donations to...
UT professors are joining Austin community members to cultivate creativity among adolescents otherwise considered derelicts by some members of society.
Travis Marcum of the Austin Classical Guitar Society...
Eighteen-year-old Esequiel Hernandez Jr. was shot and killed by a Marine while tending to his family’s livestock in Redford, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border. The corporal who fired the shot believed...
The Sanger Learning and Career Center recently moved into the School of Undergraduate Studies, but it has already been aiding students by providing resources and staff to help freshman and other students...
The need for technologies to prevent and respond to a nuclear attack is growing, according to the National Academy of Engineering website. This global challenge, along with others, is a focus of a new...
In order to escape deportation to Auschwitz during the Holocaust, prisoners of Theresienstadt concentration camp tried to join the Freizeitgestaltung, a group of artists and musicians who put on concerts...
[Corrected Sept. 27: Changed spelling of Jessica McClean]
When Information sciences graduate student Jessica McClean was in high school, she read J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”...
At the Texas Capitol on Friday, students commemorated the death of a man they say was wrongly executed and protested against the death penalty.
Troy Davis was executed in Atlanta by lethal injection on...
Students donned ties and trousers and polished their resumes for the fall 2011 Natural Sciences Career Expo at the Frank Erwin Center on Monday. Inside, a wide range of employers, from small start-up companies...
Poultry distributor Cargill Inc. recalled 185,000 pounds of ground turkey products on Sunday after traces of salmonella were found in them. These products included chubs of Honeysuckle White Ground Turkey...
Students and professors gathered Friday to learn how Scots, English, Welsh and particularly Irish played a role in shaping the history of Texas.
Marian J. Barber, associate director of the National History...
Colorful posters, white tents and enthusiastic students covered the pavement outside Gregory Gym on Wednesday for UT’s 12th annual Party on the Plaza.
UT RecSports has hosted the event since 1999...
The Lancet, a British medical journal, released a report last week describing the epidemic of rising rates of obesity in America and across the world.
According to the study, 50 percent of American adults...
