Student Experience

Forty exemplary high school migrant students will be recognized at the Migrant Student Recognition Ceremony at The University of Texas at Austin, and two will be named Exemplary Migrant Students of the Year. What: Migrant Student Recognition Ceremony

Gretchen Ritter, vice provost for undergraduate education and faculty governance, will be leaving the university to serve at Cornell University.

The Tower will shine orange April 11 to honor The Daily Texan, the state’s “College Paper of the Year” for the third consecutive year. Hook ’em!

Don’t let stress bring you down. Swing by Stressfest on April 10 to learn stress management techniques from experts around campus and enjoy a moment of calm. Learn more.

Undergraduate students in this year’s freshman class at The University of Texas at Austin are showing performance gains compared with freshman cohorts in past years, including a 98.5 percent retention rate from fall to spring semester, which is higher than any freshman cohort in the past five years.

@UTAustin has sky-high Twitter Klout (that’s social media influence). But it’s not the only UT feed worth following. Get the full list.

University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers will speak about UT Austin’s role in the national higher education dialogue at the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Convention on Saturday, April 6.

The Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program of The University of Texas at Austin will sponsor its annual luncheon and research symposium at noon Wednesday, April 10, at the Amarillo Country Club.

Senior computer science major Kevin Luecke is the 2012-13 Student Employee of the Year. He works with UT astronomers, analyzing data from white dwarf stars. Watch a video about Kevin.

Media executives, journalists and scholars from the U.S. and around the world will attend the 14th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), an annual global conference at The University of Texas at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art on April 19-20. Registration is open online, but seats are limited and likely to fill up. A full…

UT Austin’s Voices Against Violence joins both student and community groups nationwide this April to mark Sexual Assault Awareness Month.