Student Experience

Senior Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Judith H. Langlois has been named interim provost. She will begin May 26 and serve in that position while the university searches for a permanent provost.

The UT System Board of Regents named Gregory L. Fenves the 29th president of UT. His term begins June 3. 

You’ll find the beauty of the Forty Acres, beloved Longhorn traditions, forward-thinking research and transformational student experiences throughout the new website.

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.

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.

Jordan Spieth, who helped lead the Longhorns to the NCAA National Men’s Golf Championship in 2012, won the Masters on Sunday, April 12.

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.

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.

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.