Student Experience
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Powers Honors Six Leading UT Austin Alumni with Presidential Citations
University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers will recognize six esteemed leaders from law, business and public service with Presidential Citations this week, marking his final tribute as president to some of the university’s biggest supporters.
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UT Austin Senior Wins National Student Employee of the Year Award
You may not suspect that a senior majoring in anthropology and radio-television-film is shaping the future of Texas engineering, but then, you haven’t met Coleman Tharpe, a marketing and communication student employee with the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Webber Energy Group at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Longhorn Jordan Spieth Wins Golf’s Masters
Jordan Spieth, who helped lead the Longhorns to the NCAA National Men’s Golf Championship in 2012, won the Masters on Sunday, April 12.
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Life as a Longhorn: See the Forty Acres Through the Eyes of Students
What is life really like as an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin? To find out, we asked students to snap photographs during a typical day.
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Silver Shield Foundation and University of Texas to Give Scholarship to Child of Fallen Police and Firefighters
The University of Texas at Austin will provide the New York-based Silver Shield Foundation a full college scholarship to a child of a firefighter or police officer killed in the line of duty.
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UT Austin Student Wins Goldwater Scholarship
An undergraduate biochemistry major at The University of Texas at Austin, Brendan Chou from Houston, has been awarded a Goldwater scholarship, the premier undergraduate award of its type in mathematics, natural sciences and engineering.
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Want to Help Change the World? New UT Crowdfunding Tool Lets You Pick How
From Alzheimer’s research to spectacular science images for the public domain, these projects are made possible by your direct support.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Students Mobilize to Prevent Sexual Violence
Voices Against Violence (VAV), a program of the Counseling and Mental Health Center in the Division of Student Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, will host “Take Back the Night,” an annual survivor focused event, on April 8 as part of Sexual Violence Prevention Month.
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Spirit of Service
Students return to East Austin for The Project, UT’s largest day of service.
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Orange Tower Celebrates GeoFORCE
The Jackson School’s GeoFORCE Texas received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from President Obama last month.
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Texas Gets Smart: Shaka Smart is New Men’s Basketball Coach
Former VCU head coach becomes the 24th coach in UT program history.
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Longhorn Nation Unites during 40 Hours for the Forty Acres to Support UT Austin
The University of Texas at Austin invites alumni, students, faculty members, staffers and friends to rally during its 40 Hours for the Forty Acres fundraising campaign on Wednesday, April 8, through Thursday, April 9.




