Community Engagement

The Project expands to Texas Exes' chapters nationwide

The university's largest day of service on Feb. 25 is branching out this year to include alumni around the nation. Watch a video on how to get involved.

The mysteries of fossils, rocks and artifacts

In this video, Texas Natural Science Center experts help visitors of all ages identify natural objects they've found, and the results are often surprising.

Ready to get in the game

Students with the Senate of College Councils, faculty and administrators helped ease high school students' anxiety about applying for college at a fall readiness workshop.

Answering the call

With $3 million from the St. David's Foundation, the School of Nursing will improve the health of underserved populations in central Texas and beyond.

Public interest design

In this Longhorn Network academic content preview, watch how Architecture students use good design to make a positive impact on a local community.

The Project expands to Texas Exes' chapters nationwide

The university's largest day of service on Feb. 25 is branching out this year to include alumni around the nation. Watch a video on how to get involved.

The mysteries of fossils, rocks and artifacts

In this video, Texas Natural Science Center experts help visitors of all ages identify natural objects they've found, and the results are often surprising.

Ready to get in the game

Students with the Senate of College Councils, faculty and administrators helped ease high school students' anxiety about applying for college at a fall readiness workshop.

Answering the call

With $3 million from the St. David's Foundation, the School of Nursing will improve the health of underserved populations in central Texas and beyond.

Public interest design

In this Longhorn Network academic content preview, watch how Architecture students use good design to make a positive impact on a local community.

News Stories

The legacy of an organist and professor

Published: Jan. 25

Gerre Hancock, a celebrated concert organist, choral director and professor of sacred music at the university, and the Bates Recital Hall’s magnificent Visser-Rowland Tracker Organ on the UT campus are the true stars of this video.

Hancock, described as a “legend in his own time,” by Glenn Chandler, director of the Butler School of Music, passed away on Jan. 21 due to cardiac arrest. He was 77.

In this video, which debuted on the Longhorn Network, audiences get a sample of the passion Hancock brought to his music and teaching.

Tower shines orange tonight

Published: Jan. 24

The Tower at The University of Texas at Austin will shine orange the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 24 in recognition of mathematics professors Luis Caffarelli, Ivo M. Babuska and Bjorn Engquist, who received recent prizes acknowledging their significant contributions to their fields of study.

Caffarelli, the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents’ Chair in Mathematics No. 1 and a member of the ICES Applied Mathematics Group, won Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize for mathematics.

Babuska, the Robert B. Trull Chair in Engineering and the ICES Senior Research Scientist, was awarded the American Mathematical Society’s highly coveted lifetime achievement award.

Engquist, the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair No. 1 and director of the ICES Center for Numerical Analysis, was awarded the 2012 George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics from the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Read more about mathematics at UT and ICES.

The Project expands to Texas Exes’ chapters nationwide

Published: Jan. 20

The University of Texas at Austin’s largest day of service, called The Project, is expanding in February 2012 to include alumni and friends of UT around the nation.

The Project has been sponsored by the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement’s Volunteer and Service Learning Center for the past 13 years and this year, is partnering with the Ex-Students’ Association for Texas Exes Care about The Project.

On Feb. 25, about 2,000 student, faculty and staff volunteers will work with the residents of Dove Springs in Austin on neighborhood improvement projects. Throughout the month of February, alumni chapters around the country have planned service projects in their own communities.

For more information on how to get involved, visit The Project’s registration website or the Texas Exes’ website.

The University of Texas at Austin is — and always has been — a university for the people of Texas. Whether we are teaming up with community organizations to tackle health care issues, bring the arts to underserved areas or solve environmental problems, we take seriously our mission of service.

The university has a rich tradition of working with communities across the state through collaborative activities and programs that involve our faculty, staff and students. Such partnerships are mutually beneficial to the university and the community. Not only are university resources shared with communities, but community knowledge and experiences are shared with the university, helping improve learning and scholarship.

Visit the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement to learn more about community-university partnerships that transform lives.

UT Volunteer Opportunities

Join the excitement and mulch trees inside the fence at Barton Springs Pool!

This is a fun event to apply mulch to the heritage trees in the north and south hills inside the fence of Barton Springs Pool!

Please, come help us mulch 8 heritage trees at the South Hill and 2 heritage trees at the North Hill of Barton Springs Pool, Saturday February 11th, 8 am to 12 pm.

The work is easy and it will help these trees survive the drought. The compost/mulch mix will be delivered