Student Experience

The Tower will go dark Saturday evening to show the university’s support for Earth Hour 2014, a global event demonstrating commitment to energy conservation.

Show your Longhorn pride and be a part of history. Give to UT on April 3-4 to help us reach our goal of raising $40,000 in 40 hours for the Forty Acres.

What: The University of Texas at Austin will recognize high school migrant students from across the state, including scholarship recipients and two exemplary students of the year, on March 31 during the 27th annual Migrant Student Recognition Ceremony.

The University of Texas at Austin is launching 40 Hours for the Forty Acres, an online giving campaign on April 3-4 designed to involve students and alumni in supporting the university.

The Tower will glow orange to celebrate recipients of the Civitatis Award, Arno Nowotny Medal and the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award.

Media executives, journalists and scholars from the U.S. and around the world will attend the 15th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), an annual global conference hosted by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at The University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication.

The following is a statement from University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers regarding the loss of ambassador and alumnus Robert S. Strauss:

Jay M. Bernhardt, former director of the National Center for Health Marketing at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been named founding director of The University of Texas at Austin Moody College of Communication’s new Center for Health Communication.

As Austin, the nation and the international community mourn the tragic automobile accident at SXSW early Thursday morning, several faculty experts at The University of Texas at Austin are available to help members of the media better understand issues raised by the incident. This list will likely be expanded. Please check back for the latest…

The women’s track team won the 2014 Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championship. It’s their sixth Big 12 title and first since 2006.

R.B. Brenner, an award-winning former editor at The Washington Post, has been named the new director of the School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin Moody College of Communication.