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UT Presidential Search Committee Announced
UT System Board of Regents chair Paul Foster announced the members of UT-Austin’s presidential search committee today, naming 15 people to the panel charged with finding the successor to UT-Austin...
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Admissions Report Stresses Need for Clarity
Update: The UT System has announced the members of the committee formed to study the recommendations of the Kroll report. You can see the members here. A small group of students are admitted to...
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Exposed to Deluge of Digital Photos, We Feel the Effects of Image Overload
by Rebecca Macmillan, PhD Candidate in English, University of Texas at Austin Twenty-four percent of U.S. teens say they’re online “almost constantly.” Now much of that time, it seems, is spent...
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Fenves Adopts Campus Carry Recommendations
UT-Austin president Greg Fenves announced Wednesday that he has adopted the 25 policy recommendations for implementing Senate Bill 11, or campus carry. In December, the university’s Campus Carry...
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Defeating Whooping Cough
Pertussis, or whooping cough, kills 200,000 children each year, but a UT researcher’s work holds new promise. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory infection that...
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The Way Back: Turtle Power
There’s no evidence to suggest that the inhabitants of Turtle Pond ever met Tessie, a giant mechanical Franken-turtle built at UT in 1954, but at roughly 4 feet long and 3 feet wide, Tessie was surely...
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Suspect in Custody for Haruka Weiser Murder
Haruka Weiser (Facebook) Update, Friday, April 8, 10:30 a.m.: At a press conference on Friday morning, Austin police announced they arrested 17-year-old Meechaiel Criner in connection with the homicide...
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New Student Body President Kevin Helgren Is Ready to Challenge the Status Quo
After a prolonged Student Government election riddled with internal conflict, Kevin Helgren took office last week as the new student body president. Just an hour after he was inducted, news broke of...
View ArticleClass of 2016 Celebrates Graduation at the Alumni Center
The Class of 2016 was the largest entering freshman class in the history of the University of Texas at Austin. This weekend, graduates celebrated in style with friends and family at the Great Texas...
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Journalism Students Report From Rio
Covering the first swimming events at the 2016 Rio Olympics is an experience UT student Akshay Mirchandani will never forget. He had been sent on assignment by the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette to cover...
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