University of Texas at Austin News

Keystone Symposia is convening its first conference on "Big Data in Biology," at the Fairmont San Francisco hotel March 24-25.

Several of the University of Texas at Austin's graduate schools and programs earned high rankings in the U.S. News and World Report's 2015 edition of its Best Graduate Schools list.

President Obama has cast himself as the leader of a global coalition opposed to Russian aggression in Ukraine, but it's not clear exactly where he is leading it.

Leon Chen of Tiff's Treats, pictured here, and Tiffany Taylor Chen sat down with the Austin Business Journal on Tuesday for this month's Face to Face interview.

A graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin is looking for photography editors to participate in an anonymous survey about the editing process surrounding images of war and conflict.

Kilgore College is proud to announce its recipients of the annual National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development Excellence Awards.

When the U.S. shale boom is over - however many decades off that might be - will the country find another abundant source of natural gas to tap? Texas researchers are among those trying to find out.

The expansion would enclose the southern end of the stadium with a multilevel stand.

DALLAS Friends said Ford Yates is either crazy, or just kind. "I try to be kind through my craziness," said Yates, 19. He spent the weekend packing for spring break, but the college freshman isn't heading to the beach with fraternity brothers from UT Austin.

From the Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin, TX ; Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX ; and the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX .

C: $20 person, $15 for high school students before March 28; $25 person, $20 high school students on race day E: Registration is at 7 a.m., and the race begins at 8 a.m. The Junior Wildfire Run begins at 8:45 a.m., and awards will be passed out at 9:15 a.m. The first 60 people to register are guaranteed a free T-shirt.

George Saunders has won The Story Prize for 2013 for his short story collection, Tenth of December .

Frankly Music, violinist Frank Almond's chamber music series, turns impresario this week by presenting the top-notch MirA3 Quartet in concert Tuesday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 914 E. Knapp St. Founded in 1995, MirA3 has been the quartet in residence since 2003 at the University of Texas at Austin.

In a rollicking hour of humor, science fact and good-natured skepticism, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson charmed South by Southwest Interactive attendees in a keynote presentation 2 p.m. Saturday at the Austin Convention Center.

Welcome to Day 5 of A Dino a Day Strikes Back, celebrating the paperback release of CHRONAL ENGINE , and the new editions of NINJAS, PIRANHAS, AND GALILEO and TOFU AND T.REX ! In case you ever wondered " How to Eat a Triceratops ," this T-shirt features a helpful diagram illustrating the choicest cuts.

About 15 protesters opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring Canadian oil to Texas Gulf Coast refineries lined the sidewalk on Friday outside the Austin Club on Ninth Street.

The University of Texas at Austin will help build the world's largest telescope that scientists say will help provide images of undiscovered planets.

I attended a Texas Community College Teachers Association convention on leadership in Austin recently.

Binghamton University explicitly outlines what it considers to be academic dishonesty.

R.B. Brenner, a former editor at The Washington Post now with Stanford University's journalism program, has been named director of the School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin Moody College of Communication.