Hannah is a journalism and rhetoric/writing senior from Dallas, Texas. She currently serves as a senior audio producer but previously worked as a news desk editor, senior videographer, projects reporter and more. Hannah enjoys horseback riding and hanging out with friends.
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 22, 2022 flipbook.
Austinites can cast their votes starting April 25 on a proposition that could end no-knock warrants and citations or arrests...
As DJ-ing rises in popularity in West Campus, student DJs at UT share their thoughts on the community, mix-making process and efforts to gain more of the spotlight.
Music: "West Bad" by...
Republican Greg Abbott and Democrat Beto O’Rourke won their party’s respective nomination for governor Tuesday night in the Texas primaries, while incumbent Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton will...
This article first appeared in the Feb. 11, 2022 flipbook.
Nearing the end of the second week of in-person classes, the UT-Austin COVID-19 dashboard reported an estimated 373 active COVID-19 cases on...
Hannah Ortega, Senior News Reporter
• February 10, 2022
A nearly $10,000 grant will allow assistant professor Benjamin Leibowicz to research sustainable development in relation to climate change in Austria this summer.
The Texas Global Faculty Research Seed...
The rail line is part of Project Connect, a $7.1 billion plan voters passed in the November 2020 election, and will include an orange line and a blue line.
Abril Barraza was supposed to study abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this fall and graduate in fall 2022. Now, due to COVID-19, Barraza’s study abroad program has been canceled, and she will be...
Before returning to campus, the University is asking students to quarantine themselves for 14 days and to use the Protect Texas Together app to track their symptoms, according to a July 29 email from UT...
The University recently held several focus groups to get student feedback on fall reopening plans, including intentions to return to campus.
Sara Kennedy, director of strategic and executive communications...
After a student-led petition gathered over 700 signatures, the University confirmed financial aid from Texas Advance Commitment will cover both current and incoming students, clearing up rumors circulating...
Some students have expressed frustrations with UT’s fall reopening plan, specifically regarding the cost of tuition, online learning and double-occupancy rooms in residence halls.
Details of the...
After completing an 18-month training program, 78 bicyclists with Texas 4000, a UT organization that raises money and awareness for cancer, were supposed to set out on a 4,000-mile-long journey this summer...
Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.
UT announced more details of its reopening plan Monday, including online, hybrid and in-person classes, mostly double-occupancy rooms in residence...
Despite having about 30 active members, the UT Pre-Optometry Professional Society wanted to support the Black Lives Matter movement, and raised $1,448 for two organizations in just nine days.
The group...
UT Interim President Jay Hartzell announced the University will require face masks or coverings inside all campus buildings in an email June 8. Masks are not required while walking around campus, but they...
An employee at the University’s Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center tested positive for COVID-19 while another displayed symptoms for the virus, UT announced Wednesday in an internal email to University...
At 29, first-year student Axton Vorpahl sits at the front of classes filled with students potentially a decade younger than him.
While most freshmen have likely only ever known their high schools and...
Andrew Mendoza said when his boss called him into her office, he figured there was a problem they needed to solve. Instead, he received news that he had won a Texas Parents Staff Merit Award.
Mendoza,...
Austin took first place in a study of the best college towns and cities in the United States last month.
WalletHub, a personal finance website, designated Austin as the best college town in the...
Dorm prices increased by hundreds of dollars this year to help cover the costs of renovation projects, maintenance needs and other expenses.
This year, students have to pay $11,791 for a shared...
At many West Campus apartments, students often pay rent for all of August despite not being allowed to move in until the last couple weeks of the month.
2400 Nueces property manager Laura Bales...
“Could you just not handle it?”
Katarina de la Rosa said the question came up in a job interview in reference to her course load. The prospective employer was asking about an X symbol, which...
Editor's Note: The second paragraph of this story has been adjusted to better reflect the inspiration behind Initium.
Public health freshmen Joshua Lattao and Neha Dronamraju hope to bridge the...
From atop the Swiss Family Treehouse in Magic Kingdom, marketing junior Samantha Kagel watched the Happily Ever After fireworks show with tears in her eyes and friends by her side. It was her last shift...
Half an hour. That’s how long Laura Souto once waited to use a microwave.
Souto, who lives in Riverside, is one of many students who brings food from home and struggles to use or find microwaves...
Student Government passed an assembly resolution Tuesday night supporting an apology to Wallace Hall, a former UT System regent, and an assembly bill permanently establishing the Gender Inclusivity Coalition...
Student Government members fast-tracked and approved an assembly resolution Tuesday night supporting the establishment of a Faculty Council task force to look into best practices for handling difficult...
Members of the Senate of College Councils fast-tracked and passed a resolution Thursday evening that supports removing English associate professor Coleman Hutchison from this fall’s course schedule.
An...
In light of the college admissions scandal involving UT and several other universities, Student Government proposed an assembly resolution Tuesday evening supporting an apology to Wallace Hall, a former...
Elena Ivanova and Katherine Lee were named president and vice president of the Senate of College Councils in a special election Thursday evening.
Ivanova ran against neuroscience junior Christopher...
Malcolm Over Moore, a campaign created by electrical engineering senior Vikram Sundaram, embraces absurdity by supporting a unique name change for Robert Lee Moore Hall. The movement calls for the building...
The 113th Student Government Assembly convened for the first time at a meeting Tuesday night. Members voted in elections for a variety of positions, including speaker of the assembly and financial affairs...
Update:
In an opinion released Tuesday evening, the Student Government Supreme Court declared the passing vote on Assembly Bill 16 null and void. The bill would have established Multicultural Engagement...
For a little over a year, the Liberal Arts Council has been crafting and attempting to implement a resolution supporting the addition of sensitive content disclosures to professors’ syllabi. The...
At the final meeting for the 112th Student Government assembly, members approved resolutions supporting athletic stadium metal detectors and a former UT student who lives in subsidized housing, as well...
Students who live on campus will receive meal plans with unlimited swipes for the all-you-care-to-eat dining halls next semester.
The plan will allow students to visit Kinsolving Dining and Jester 2nd...
Camron Goodman and Amie Jean will serve as next year’s student body president and vice president.
“This is … eight weeks in the making, two months of hard work and dedication,”...
Just hours after voting closed in the 2019 Student Government election, the Election Supervisory Board fined the Goodman-Jean campaign for campaign worker and financial disclosure violations.
The Election...
Members proposed legislation to establish allotted seats for Multicultural Engagement Center representatives and support metal detectors at the Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in a meeting Tuesday...
A launch event this evening will mark the official arrival of the Peace Corps Prep Certificate program at UT and help students learn about service abroad.
The event, which coincides with Peace...
Student Government proposed legislation supporting Instapoll in classrooms and approved a new Supreme Court Justice during a meeting Tuesday night.
First year representative Avi Patel presented...
The Fanucci-Ivanova and Goodman-Jean executive alliances took the stage in the Student Activity Center Monday night for a debate on topics ranging from sexual assault to free speech.
The event,...
Editor's note: This is the third in a series of profiles of the three executive alliances.
Through a TikTok account, customized berets and a collaborative Google document, executive alliance...
Student Government approved an assembly resolution supporting the adoption of Chicago Statement free speech standards and proposed legislation for creating new excellence awards.
Liberal arts representative...
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of profiles of the three executive alliances.
Finance seniors Camron Goodman and Amie Jean said they strive to make their campaign for student body...
On the sidewalk near Gate 7 of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, directly across from the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, stands a white bike locked to a pole and adorned with artificial flowers. A laminated...
Students pushed for improved bike safety measures at a Student Government meeting Tuesday night with the proposal of Assembly Resolution 13.
The resolution, written by James Lentz, Campus Bike Alliance...
In order to teach incoming students about consent and healthy relationships, classes for First-Year Interest Group and Transfer-Year Interest Group mentors will include consent education starting this...
In recent weeks, students at UT and Texas A&M University have forged an alliance in the name of football rivalry.
Student Body President Colton Becker, the Longhorn Athletics Agency within Student...
Student Government passed a resolution to uphold current Title IX policies and reject changes presented by Betsy DeVos, U.S. Secretary of Education, in a meeting Tuesday night.
Ian McEntee, Academic...
Editor's note: This story has been updaterd to include a clarified quote from a source.
Connections between his Romani culture and the languages of other dispersed groups of people helped spark...
This spring’s campus-wide student elections will rely on a new voting system approved by Student Government last February.
The single transferable voting system, which requires students to rank...
It’s in with the old at UT as the Texas Aging and Longevity Center kicks off today with an event at Patton Hall.
The center’s creation stemmed from UT’s Aging Network and the...
In an effort to make the organization more inclusive and accessible, the Student Government opened Longhorn Legislative Aide to transfer students, pinpointed an area for a potential new reflection space,...
The College of Liberal Arts has named Ann Huff Stevens as its new dean, effective this July.
Stevens worked at the University of California, Davis for about 16 years as an economics professor and...
Cat Kline said there is a lot of stigma surrounding dating apps, and occasionally for good reason. After all, it was just last month a person she connected with on the Badoo app tried to pressure her into...
Belly dance, a Middle Eastern art form, is often associated with seductive body rolling and hip shaking, but the new Fusion Belly Dance Club aims to challenge this stereotype.
Psychology senior Gabby...
Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, a weather data collection site, recorded 15.7 inches of rain during September and October. That marks the seventh-highest rainfall total for the two months since...
This month marked the five-year anniversary of the Moody Foundation’s $50 million donation to the Moody College of Communication.
Last Wednesday, the college’s dean, Moody Foundation trustee...
Radio-television-film freshman Alma Zamora has always struggled to maintain a healthy weight, so her mother hoped she would gain a few pounds when she came to UT. Instead, the opposite happened. Zamora...
The Church of Scientology on Guadalupe Street has been a familiar sight for students walking past ever since its purchase in 1979. But with new construction efforts, the building looks a bit different.
So,...
The Peace Corps Prep Certificate program is coming to UT in January and will help students take courses relevant to the service group.
UT-Austin will join the University’s Dallas and El Paso locations...
In a humid Colombian classroom during summer 2017, Christina Lopez played “Perfect Color” by SafetySuit for her students. She said she wanted them to listen for the colors woven throughout...
Students across campus now have access to the 2019-20 Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, following its release last Monday.
When filling out FAFSA, students are applying for six types...
As a child, Joyce Munia Kabwe felt shame about her foreign middle name. Now, she uses it as the moniker of her fashion brand.
The clothing line was named Munia, which means sun in the African language...
From a contorted clock knot to a circle of concrete columns, Landmarks has provided public art to the UT campus for 10 years and now boasts 41 pieces.
The program celebrated its 10th anniversary...
A grilled cheese delivery service intended to provide cheap and accessible food is now making three freshmen a little more cheddar than they expected.
GORT’S Grilled Cheese, created by Rithwik...
Communications faculty members expressed their visions for a revamped, collaboration-friendly Walter Cronkite Plaza during a Wednesday meeting and brainstorming session at the Belo Center for New Media....
