Student Experience

The March 9 roundup of campus kudos and press mentions.

Student-athletes mentor kids in the Neighborhood Longhorns Program, and you can help Coach Rick Barnes earn the program $100,000.

The President’s Sustainability Steering Committee has introduced The University of Texas at Austin’s Sustainability Web Portal, a university-wide Web site dedicated to sustainability-related initiatives across campus.

Thousands of people involved in emerging technologies will converge on Austin on March 11 for the annual South by Southwest Interactive conference. Digital and Web experts at The University of Texas at Austin are available to comment on the many aspects of social media, information technology, human-computer interaction, informatics and usability issues.

The Tower at The University of Texas at Austin will be lighted orange March 2 in recognition of Texas Independence Day.

ESPN is gearing up for the debut of its network with The University of Texas at Austin by naming two ESPN employees with more than 40 years of combined experience at ESPN to top programming and production posts.

Learn the story of how Texas Independence Day came to The University of Texas at Austin — cheering and cannon fire included.

Journalists, media executives and scholars from around the world will take part in the 12th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), April 12, at The University of Texas at Austin.

The University of Texas at Austin’s H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports has been selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to be an Olympic Studies Center (OSC).

Houston businessman and philanthropist Stuart W. Stedman has pledged $1 million to The University of Texas at Austin to provide scholarships to students in the Plan II Honors program and promote excellence in the Department of History.

The Tower lights recognize the men’s swimming and diving team’s victory at the Big 12 Championships.

The Tower lights honor recipients of the Presidential Citation, Civitatis Award, Nowotny Medal and President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award.