Student Experience

UT Austin led the nation with the most-improved undergraduate student voting rate for the 2106 election, winning a champion award from the ALL IN Challenge, a nonpartisan organization that promotes civic engagement.

“Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment” by Jordan Stieiker and his sister Carol Steiker has been named the $10,000 grand prize winner of the 2017 University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards.

Planet Texas 2050: Planning for a Resilient Texas, a university-wide, interdisciplinary research challenge, will examine the issues of extreme weather events, population growth and aging infrastructure facing Texas.

The University of Texas System Board of Regents named seven UT Austin faculty members as recipients of the 2017 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (ROTA).

Graduation rates continue to climb at UT Austin, with the four-year rate reaching 65.7 percent in 2017, up almost 5 percentage points from last year and setting a university record.

Two-time Texas Ex and state Capitol veteran Jay Dyer is returning to The University of Texas at Austin to oversee the flagship campus’s government relations office. 

Statement from UT President Gregory L. Fenves on the naming of UT System Regent Sara Martinez Tucker as the new Chair of the Board of Regents.