University of Texas at Austin News

While giving a foreign policy speech sponsored by various groups at the University of Texas, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio warned Tuesday that terrorists training in ungoverned swaths of Syria could "soon" attack American interests around the world - or even on the nation's home soil.

Flower beds containing brightly-colored Bluebonnets are now home to a variant known as Alamo Fire, which is a shade of maroon.

The University of Texas at Austin will open a center to offer research, programs and workshops to help the public better understand the threats of identity theft, fraud and privacy.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency the greatest danger to nuclear security comes from terrorists acquiring sufficient quantities of plutonium or highly enriched uranium to construct a crude nuclear explosive device.

Los Angeles International Airport Enforcement Special Unit police officers use a bomb-sniffing dog to check baggage.

Mary Ellen Poole has been appointed director of the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.

A findings report from the investigation of University of Texas Regent Wallace Hall has been referred to prosecutors in Travis County for possible criminal violations.

New Friends New Life honored the recipients of its 2014 Protect Her Award at its Wings luncheon last Friday at the Hilton Anatole.

A special legislative report that accuses University of Texas System regent Wallace Hall of possibly criminal misconduct has been forwarded to the Travis County District Attorney's Office.

On Monday, The Texas Tribune reported that information uncovered as part of the investigation of the Select Committee on Transparency in State Agencies on possible criminal actions committed by UT System Regent Wallace Hall had been referred to Travis County prosecutors.

In our fame-seeking and data-driven world, the most outrageous claims made by "experts," bloggers, and researchers often gain the most media attention.

For at least a quarter century now, colleges and universities have been relying increasingly on part-time faculty because they're cheaper than tenure-track professors.

Aspen's acclaimed Theater Masters will present its eighth annual "Take Ten," an exciting, fast-paced evening of eight 10-minute plays from award-winning MFA graduate playwriting students from across the country as part of its National MFA Playwrights Competition April 22nd - 26th at Off-Broadway's The American Theater of Actors .

Somewhere along the line, top-ranked public institutions discovered that out-of-state students represented a serious source of revenue for budgets suffering from relentless reductions in state appropriations.

In an April 8 letter addressed to UT-Austin President Bill Powers , three distinguished faculty members - joined by at least 108 others - asked Powers to withdraw support for the "Shared Services" plan to eliminate as many as 500 staff positions in order to improve "business productivity" on campus.

The University of Texas at Austin's Center for Identity is establishing a multimillion dollar public resource center for identity theft, fraud and privacy.

In 2001, Ryan Piers Williams, a 19-year-old sophomore filmmaker at the University of Texas at Austin, collected $1,000 from friends and family to shoot "Daydream," a 17-minute film shot in Dripping Springs near Las Cruces and in Driftwood, Texas.

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.

The Autism Network of Parent Services Center Inc. will hold an Autism Expo from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 26 at The University Center Ballroom on the University of Texas at Tyler campus.

President Barack Obama spoke at the Civil Rights Summit on the University of Texas at Austin campus on Thursday, April 10, 2014.