University of Texas at Austin News

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.

Credit: Shapiro LJ, Cole WG, Young JW, Raichlen DA, Robinson SR, et al. Human Quadrupeds, Primate Quadrupedalism, and Uner Tan Syndrome.

Daily News Flash with Robert Jensen on Latest in Gaza War, New HRW Study on FBI Entrapment, and Texas Deployment of National Guardsmen to Border Uprising's guest expert Robert Jensen, an author and a professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today's news headlines: The Israeli war in Gaza has continued unabated, with ... (more)

Keller resident Ethan Kerstein, a history and government major at the University of Texas at Austin, is working as a museum exhibit curatorial intern for the Dallas Holocaust Museum.

Please welcome guest blogger Rebecca Lee, who teaches at Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

World War I, originally refered to as the Great War, officially began 100 years ago on July 28, 2014.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decided this week that the University of Texas's consideration of race as a factor among many factors for college and university admissions is legally permissible in Fisher v.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the New England Transcendentalists, was very influential for me as a teenager.

Synthetic Biologics, Inc. , a developer of novel anti-infective biologic and drug candidates targeting specific pathogens that cause serious infections and diseases, today announced that Jennifer Maynard, Ph.D., of The University of Texas at Austin's McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering will highlight Synthetic Biologics' SYN-005 monoclonal ... (more)

A protracted feud at the University of Texas at Austin seems to have a refrain similar to the 2012 leadership crisis at the University of Virginia.

McRaven, reportedly the front-runner to be the next chancellor of the University of Texas System, also has been touted as a vice presidential candidate alongside potential White House contender Hillary Clinton.

Ashley Haire, Dallas' new bike coordinator, takes control of the city's bike plans at a critical time.

"Higher education matters to me and it matters to the future of our state and nation," said Hutchison, a former UT cheerleader who served in the Senate from 1993 to 2013.