University of Texas at Austin News

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.

Earlier this week, in Fisher v. University of Texas , a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the undergraduate admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin.

Actors Shia LaBeouf and Robin Williams both recently announced that they're seeking treatment for alcoholism: LaBeouf as an outpatient following an outburst in a New York City theater and Williams in a rehab facility.

Just when it seemed like debate over the National Nanotechnology Initiative was a thing of the past , disagreements regarding re-authorization and budget cuts are prompting politicians and researchers to take a detailed look at what the program supports and what it is achieving.

Affirmative action survived a federal appellate court challenge in Texas on Tuesday.

But in a recent study , scientists at the University of Texas at Austin said they have found a way to alter the genetic makeup of Caenorhabditis elegans worms to make them drunk-resistent, according to The Verge .

Throughout his life, Hyman Y. Chase was a man of great intellectual stature who liked to remind mere mortals, in a booming voice, that he had a PhD from Leland J. Stanford University.

Rick Gentry, former executive director for the Insurance Council of Texas , was presented the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award at the ICT's Mid-Year Property and Casualty Symposium in Austin.

Natalie Madeira Cofield, president and CEO of the Greater Austin Black Chamber of Commerce, in her South Congress Avenue neighborhood in Austin.

The Hanover Company, a Houston-based real estate development company, announced Thursday that it will open its new Hanover South Lamar luxury apartments for move-in and viewing in about a month.

Contradicting earlier claims, "The Family That Walks on All Fours," a group of quadrupedal humans made famous by a 2006 BBC documentary, have simply adapted to their inability to walk upright and do not represent an example of backward evolution, according to new research by Liza Shapiro, an anthropologist at The University of Texas at Austin.

In September 2012 Frost decided to leave the University of Texas-Austin, where he was studying English, to pursue his solo career.