University of Texas at Austin News

A follow-up to my post yesterday: In its ruling last week in Fisher v. University of Texas , the Fifth Circuit panel majority acknowledges that the University of Texas's use of race in its so-called "holistic review" process was far from marginal: Given the test score gaps between minority and non-minority applicants, if holistic review was not ... (more)

A University of Texas at Austin custom license plate manufactured by My Plates. The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles contracted with the company in 2009, asking the company to raise $25 million for the state in five years.

Since joining my current practice two years ago, I've noticed that I care for a disproportionate number of immigrants of Chinese and other Asian descent compared to my colleagues.

Barack and Michelle Obama have very busy schedules, of this there is no doubt. It's a good thing they have some help, not just from staffers, but also from family: Michelle Obama's mother, Marian Robinson.

Almost lost among the news last week about the war in the Middle East and a war of another kind in Washington between Republicans and President Obama was a bit of good news: A federal appeals court, acting on a case remanded by the Supreme Court, upheld the University of Texas' modest affirmative action program.

The University of Texas System Board of Regents has scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, when they are expected to name the sole finalist to be the system's next chancellor.

Everyone's heard of "buyer's remorse." However, researchers from three colleges may have come up with a different way of explaining why we sometimes kick ourselves after making a purchase.

Kelly Shores Title: Founder and CEO, Sparksight Age: 44 Hometown: Sugar Land, Texas Family: Wife Jodi; daughter, 11; son, 9 Education: Bachelor's degree, Radio/Television/Film, University of Texas at Austin College of Communication, 1991 Phone: 493-2072 Email: tkshores@sparksight.com Sparksight CEO and co-founder Kelly Shores has seen big changes ... (more)

Welcome to the world of in-house counsel , the attorney who lives inside a company as one of its employees, advising and representing it.

There are 40,000 undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin.

Thanks to a new, non-destructive microscopy technique, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin in the US and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in Korea are the first to have electrically imaged dendritic ad-layers and grain boundaries in molybdenum disulphide an up-and-coming technologically important material.

Debut novelist and Texan Will Chancellor reads from and discusses his novel "A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall" 7 p.m. tonight at BookPeople.

A University of Texas police spokeswoman says two Longhorns football players have been charged with felony sexual assault and their arrests are pending.

In the digital world, where brevity is valued above all, emoji have become a useful way for us to translate the emotions behind our messages with a simple character.

The State Board of Education , nationally lampooned for continually dragging the Lone Star State into the culture wars, is at it again.

The University of Texas Board of Regents finds itself in an unusually strong position as it weighs the field of candidates to succeed outgoing Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa.

Researchers are working to protect consumer data by using companies spam volume to evaluate its security vulnerability through the SpamRankings.net project.

University of Texas Police say there was no threat to safety Wednesday after briefly searching for a woman seen carrying a knife at Main Building.

Shorts Break spotlights Austin and Texas short films that you can watch right here and now ... take a break and take a look! For the inaugural edition of Shorts Break, I decided to go with puppets.

Longhorns have a new reason to put their horns up this summer. According to a new study, the University of Texas at Austin is among the best universities in the country and the world.