Student Experience

The almost 4,900 trees on campus, including this 58-foot-tall deodar cedar, helped the university earn the honor of Tree Campus USA for the third year.

The Tower will be dark tonight during the evening hours in recognition of the April 22 celebration of Earth Day.

In recognition of the 41st anniversary of Earth Day on April 22 The University of Texas at Austin Office of Sustainability is celebrating all month with daily green tips focused on the university community.

Hal Box, former dean of the School of Architecture and professor emeritus, received dual honors from The University of Texas at Austin on April 8.

The April 20 roundup of campus kudos and press mentions.

EVENT: News media availability with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. WHEN: 1:15 p.m. to 1:40 p.m. (CST), Thursday, April 21. WHERE: In the Great Hall at the Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) Library and Museum, 2313 Red River St.

ConocoPhillips has contributed $1 million to support academic programs at The University of Texas at Austin.

The Tower lights with a No. 1 celebrate the School of Law’s national championships at trial advocacy and moot court competitions.

Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins will deliver the inaugural Frank Deford Lecture in Sports Journalism, a speech titled “Why Games Matter: Stories We Tell Ourselves about Ourselves,” at 4 p.m., April 20 in the Student Activity Center auditorium at The University of Texas at Austin.

A team of geoscience students from The University of Texas at Austin beat finalists from 11 global regions to win the Imperial Barrel Award, the world’s largest and most prestigious competition in petroleum geosciences hosted annually by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG).

Told by the Board of Regents to transfer to Texas AandM if they wanted to rodeo, a group of ’50s-era students built their own arena, a thrilling team and a swinging country-western scene instead.

On April 16, the Tower lights will celebrate the students recognized at Honors Day and will mark the 100th anniversary of the Friar Society.