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The board of Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity is delighted to announce the appointment of Donald R. Meineke as the 4th Artistic Director in its 47-year history.

Forty-eight years ago, students studied, napped and socialized under a canopy of oak trees on the University of Texas at Austin's South Mall.

On a balmy Friday morning in June, fifth-graders at Marengo Elementary dance around maypoles festooned with a rainbow of ribbons.

"What starts here changes the world." That's the motto at the University of Texas at Austin.

Nearly 48 years after Charles Whitman's notorious shooting rampage on the University of Texas at Austin campus, his youngest victim - a baby still in utero - received a headstone this year.

For years, researchers have known that physical pain relievers such as ibuprofen can also help ease emotional pain, but new research suggests that ibuprofen has contrasting effects on men and women: Men who take the drug report harsher feelings of rejection, and women report feeling better.

Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin is the affirmative action case that won't go away.

When I teach American literature, there's always some trepidation around Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

With all the in-fighting that has surrounded the top leadership in the University of Texas System the past few years, it seems appropriate that regents has selected a military man to be the next chancellor of the 15-campus institution.

KVUE - On Wednesday, city and transportation leaders showed off the 9.5-mile route for the proposed Urban Rail Bond Package on the Austin City Council's November ballot.

Good silver screen news for students in burnt orange: In its fourth annual ranking of the nation's top 25 film schools, the Hollywood Reporter has named the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Radio-Television-Film the tenth best place to start your cinematic career.

Scientists in the The University of Texas at Austin's College of Natural Sciences and the Cockrell School of Engineering, in collaboration with a researcher at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have developed the first of a new class of pseudocapacitor that may eventually lead to devices that can store electricity more ... (more)

The Supreme Court ordered the 5th Circuit federal appeals court to reconsider Abigail Fisher's claim that she was the victim of illegal racial discrimination by UT.

Rice University is the best college in Texas and 32nd in the nation, according to the latest college rankings by Forbes .

For a second time, the Fifth Circuit dismissed Abigail Fisher's claim against the University of Texas at Austin , holding that the University's admissions policy, including the use of race as a factor, passes the strict scrutiny standard and is permissible under the Equal Protection Clause.

"I believe in what I would call a chitin economy. I personally believe, if properly developed, the material you can develop from chitin and the markets you could sell them in would make the shrimp shell worth more than the meat," said Rogers, an owner and founder of 525 Solutions, a startup company housed in UA's Alabama Innovation and Mentoring of ... (more)

On Tuesday evening, the University of Texas System Board of Regents unanimously named Admiral William H. McRaven the sole finalist to be the next chancellor of the system.

Attorneys for a woman is renewing her appeal of a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the use of race in University of Texas undergraduate admissions.

Randa Safady, center, University of Texas assistant vice chancellor, shakes hands with David Morales, right, deputy general counsel for the University of Texas System board of regents, as the regents' general counsel, Francie Frederick, left, watches after regents voted in favor of Navy Adm.

Earlier this year, the earth hit a frightening milestone: carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached its highest level since humans have inhabited the earth .