Student Experience

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.

Explorers of all ages are invited to “The Biggest Open House in Texas” on Saturday, March 5 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Feb. 23 roundup of campus kudos and press mentions.

Event: The Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin will present a series of visits by leading curators, critics and scholars from the contemporary art world throughout the spring semester.

The Tower lights honor the McCombs School of Business students who won the GE Experienced Commercial Leadership Program Case Competition.

Norval D. Glenn, professor emeritus of sociology, who taught for 47 years at The University of Texas at Austin, died Feb. 15 after a two-year battle with myelodysplastic syndrome, a form of blood cancer. He was 77 years old.

Members of Heman Marion Sweatt’s family share memories of the civil rights figure who was the first African American to integrate the School of Law.