UT students staged a “die-in” Thursday afternoon at the intersection of 21st Street and Speedway to protest the Eric Garner ruling.
At the demonstration, black students performed a...
Kaustubh Thirumalai, geological sciences graduate student, was selected to research alongside 30 international scientists aboard a scientific drilling vessel.
Thirumalai began his expedition in...
UT faculty members showcased their research at the Research Symposium hosted by the UT Student Engineering Council in Welch Hall.
Speakers included business professor Prabhudev Konana,...
With enrollment for coverage under the Affordable Care Act now open for 2015, four panelists at KUT Studios in the Belo Center for New Media on Tuesday discussed the impact of the act so far.
The panel...
Joseph McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch, husband-and-wife disease detectives from the UT-Brownsville School of Public Health, lectured Thursday at Welch Hall to dissect the facts of the West African Ebola...
City Council members Kathie Tovo and Chris Riley will face each other again in a runoff election on Dec. 16 as neither received a majority of the vote in Tuesday's District 9 council race.
Tuesday’s...
The latest UT/Texas Tribune Poll shows a majority of registered voters in Texas view the voter identification law favorably and continue to find border security and immigration to be the most important...
A resource development coordinator at END7 lectured Tuesday about neglected diseases and solutions available for infected patients.
Emily Conron led the on-campus lecture, hosted by END7 at UT,...
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley spoke to University Democrats on Thursday afternoon in front of Littlefield Fountain before the group block walked through West Campus in support of State Sen. Wendy...
Peter Thiel, PayPal cofounder and early Facebook investor, spoke at the LBJ Auditorium on Wednesday about innovation, entrepreneurship and his new book, “Zero to One.”
At the discussion,...
TEDxSpeedwayPlaza, an independently organized TED event put together by UT students, took place Thursday evening in the SAC Ballroom.
The TEDx event was meant to inspire viewers to make an impact...
While a group of student organizations held a small protest outside, Meir Dagan, former director of the Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, spoke at the Bass Lecture Hall on Tuesday...
Charles Schwab CEO Walt Bettinger spoke to McCombs students at the SAC Auditorium on Tuesday about his experiences in business and their application to students’ futures and careers.
Bettinger...
The Department of Defense awarded $17 million to 11 public institutions, including UT, to assist traumatic brain injury research, the University announced Wednesday.
Eleven U.S. public and private...
Alan Bean, a former Apollo astronaut and UT alumnus, visited campus Tuesday to present a scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation and talk about the knowledge he gained from being a NASA astronaut....
A UT assistant professor led a study that found a correlation between socioeconomic disadvantage and body mass.
Tetyana Pudrovska, head author of the study and sociology assistant professor, said the...
Paying tribute to the centennial anniversary of World War I, government associate professor Scott Wolford is teaching a class this semester that encompasses the events of the war in real time.
“It...
The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat spoke Thursday about the evolution of marriage and the possible changes marriage could see in the future.
Douthat said there are behavioral and ideological...
Col. Gregory Daddis, history professor at the U.S. Military Academy West Point, spoke on campus Tuesday about the “salesmanship” of the Vietnam War, analyzing propaganda released at the time...
Red McCombs, San Antonio businessman and UT alumnus and donor, criticized the UT football team’s recent performance at a sports law conference held on campus Friday, saying he believes recruitment...
