Dec. 21 UT Austin achieves important partial victory in Hopwood decision by U.S. Court of Appeals; President Larry R. Faulkner says University remains 'committed to keeping door of opportunity open for all'
The University of Texas at Austin achieved an important partial victory with the decision announced Thursday (Dec. 21) by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case of Cheryl J. Hopwood vs. the State of Texas.Dec. 19 Texas Memorial Museum at UT Austin to host traveling History ChannelΠTime Machine on Dec. 22-23
The Texas Memorial Museum of Science and History is hosting the traveling History Channel® Time Machine on Dec. 22-23 on the UT Austin campus.Dec. 18 UT Austin special education faculty will share in $11 million federal grant to study educational achievement of young Spanish-speaking students
Five faculty members in the College of Education's department of special education at The University of Texas at Austin will conduct four critically needed research projects over the next five years on language and literacy development for young Spanish-speaking children.Dec. 18 Chronic alcohol abuse can change brain's molecular programming and circuitry of frontal cortex, UT Austin researchers find
Like a computer virus eating away software, chronic alcohol abuse can change the programming of critical areas of the human brain on the molecular level, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered.Dec. 18 Gilchrist named director of UT Austin's Texas Family Literacy Center
Robin Gilchrist, an award-winning Texas Education Agency executive who managed major statewide initiatives in reading, K-12 student success and early childhood learning, has been named as the new director of the Texas Family Literacy Center in UT Austin's College of Education.Dec. 15 UT Austin scientist reports results from study of Yucatan crater linked to mass extinctions of dinosaurs
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin Sunday (Dec. 17) will present a report offering new geophysical clues to a cataclysmic event that may have killed off the dinosaurs.Dec. 14 UT engineer receives prestigious Japan Prize
Dr. John B. Goodenough, professor of engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has received the $450,000 Japan Prize for his discoveries of the materials critical to the development of lightweight rechargeable batteries.Dec. 14 UT Austin researchers measure supermassive black holes in distant galaxies
Two astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin, working with an international team of collaborators, have shown that they can provide reliable measurements of black hole masses for active galactic nuclei such as quasars even at great distances.Dec. 12 Urgent Advisory: UT Austin closes campus Tuesday afternoon; decision for Wednesday to be announced later
The University of Texas at Austin will close today (Tuesday, Dec. 12) at 2:30 p.m. because of inclement weather.Dec. 12 UT Austin Wednesday schedule
The University of Texas at Austin will have a split-schedule delayed opening Wednesday morning (Dec. 13).Dec. 11 World Wildlife Fund and Houston philanthropists support UT Austin effort to breed ornamental fish in captivity to help preserve coral reefs
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) in Port Aransas, have received new funding to develop captive breeding techniques for tropical ornamental fish, an effort that will help protect the world's coral reefs.Dec. 11 UT Austin students garner both Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships
For the second time in two years, The University of Texas at Austin has a winner in both the prestigious Rhodes and British Marshall Scholarship competitions. Both students will study at Oxford University in England.
