Academics

AUSTIN, Texas A $680,890 grant from the Embrey Family Foundation will bolster teaching, research and outreach efforts in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) at The University of Texas at Austin, and will include funding for a new Women’s and Gender Studies professorship focusing on critical human rights.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic speech, scholars, staff and students reflect on its legacy. With images by the late photojournalist Flip Schulke.

The University of Texas at Austin is proud to introduce the world’s first synchronous massive online course (SMOC) in fall 2013. Introduction to Psychology (PSY 301) presents a rare opportunity for students not enrolled at the university to register for a course at the same time as regularly admitted students and take part in an…

AUSTIN, Texas The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System has chosen 26 faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin to receive 2013 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards, its highest teaching honor.

The Texas Education Consortium for Male Students of Color, a new statewide network of school districts, community colleges and public universities, officially launched this summer.

  MEDIA ADVISORY Event: The University of Texas Elementary School 10th Anniversary Celebration When: Wednesday, Aug. 21, 6 p.m.

As part of a UT Accounting class, 200 students left the classroom and headed out in the community to help file 18,310 tax returns for low-income residents. Read about the impact on others and themselves.

Engineering and business students at UT now have a way to gain professional experience overseas in two of the world’s most dynamic cities, thanks to a new summer internship abroad program. Read more about the BE Global.

New and current University of Texas at Austin students who live in Fort Bend County will have the opportunity to receive a full tuition scholarship in memory of Hilmar Moore, a passionate alumnus who had served as mayor of Richmond for 63 years.

Kicking their summer off with a trip to China, a group of Longhorns learned about social entrepreneurship and volunteered at a Beijing school for children of migrant workers. See a slideshow.

Event: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, one of the leading educational foundations in the country, has selected The University of Texas at Austin as a distinguished institution for training the next generation of history teachers. Twenty-five primary and secondary education teachers from schools throughout the country (including three in Texas) will participate in…