Student Experience

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.

The following is a statement from University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers regarding the recent report from the White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault:

EVENT: UT Remembers, a day of remembrance honoring more than 180 members of the university community students and current and retired faculty and staff members who died during the previous year.

In these days of dwindling higher education funding, we have to be responsible stewards of tax and tuition dollars. Consolidating administrative roles that are now spread across campus, and doing so largely through attrition, can help save $30 million to $40 million each year that can be spent on our educational mission.

The following is a statement from University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers regarding the Supreme Court’s decision in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action:

The lighting celebrates the Texan being named Best Newspaper by the College Media Association.

Mary Ellen Poole, dean of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, has been appointed director of the Butler School of Music and holder of the Florence Thelma Hall Centennial Chair in Music at The University of Texas at Austin, effective Sept. 1.