Student Experience

See the images, quotes and fabulous caps from UT’s 2014 Spring Commencement. Plus, video of those amazing fireworks and Admiral McRaven’s moving keynote address.

There is no more uplifting event in the life of UT than Commencement, honoring graduates’ triumphant accomplishments. Meet four seniors who represent why we’re so proud of the Class of 2014.

When UT students get sick or injured, well-trained Longhorns stand ready to help them get healthy again. Check up on students preparing for medical careers by caring for their peers.

A U.S. senator, the mayor of San Antonio, a former U.S. congressman, a professional football player, the university’s new athletic director and a former head football coach will be among speakers at spring convocation ceremonies at The University of Texas at Austin on May 16 and 17.

The May 7 Tower lighting honors national championships in quidditch (yes, really), powerlifting and rock climbing, as well as 2014 staff award winners.

Luis A. Caffarelli is the winner of the 2014 American Mathematical Society Leroy P. Steele Prize.

C. Grant Willson won the 2013 Japan Prize for developing a process that is now used to manufacture nearly all of the microprocessors and memory chips in the world.

Journalism students paid tribute to retiring professor Gene Burd by joining him on his daily 2.5-mile walk to campus, sharing moving stories and thank-yous along the way.

The University of Texas Tower will go dark in remembrance of members of the university community who died in the past year.

University of Texas at Austin professors and thought leaders are weighing in on key public policy debates and helping expand public understanding of complex issues through a new, wire-style news service that offers faculty-written columns, op-eds and analyses to news outlets across the state and country.

Children and families will bloom outside this spring as the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center of The University of Texas at Austin unveils its new Luci and Ian Family Garden at a public grand opening on Sunday, May 4.