Student Experience

During this Sunday’s Super Bowl, advertising professors from The University of Texas at Austin College of Communication will live tweet critiques of Super Bowl ads.

In the immediate aftermath of a fire or flood, recovering possessions may at first seem impossible. But according to conservation experts Karen Pavelka and Rebecca Elder at the university’s School of Information, all hope is not lost.

Just in time for the spring semester, the new College of Liberal Arts Building will make its debut. The 200,000-square-foot, glass and limestone structure will give more than 10,000 liberal arts students a place to call home for the first time in decades. Not only is the building the newest landmark for the campus, it…

The 20th annual community march celebrating the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will begin with a rally at the Martin Luther King Jr. Statue on the East Mall at The University of Texas at Austin at 9 a.m. on Jan. 21.

Instead of merely watching the Inauguration on Jan. 21, two graduate students and a senior lecturer from the School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin will be running through Washington, D.C., covering the event for “PBS NewsHour.” They will participate in a “PBS NewsHour” multimedia short course, which will take place Jan.…

The National Association of Scholars report “Recasting History: Are Race, Class, and Gender Dominating American History?” raises some important questions, but it also paints a narrowly defined and largely inaccurate picture of the quality, depth and breadth of history teaching and research at The University of Texas at Austin, and it mischaracterizes how race, class…

As the 83rd Texas Legislature convenes, experts from The University of Texas at Austin are available to discuss and analyze a range of topics to be addressed this legislative session.

The University of Texas at Austin has appointed Dan Sharp, a veteran intellectual property and technology lawyer, to be the director of the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) and associate vice president for research. Sharp’s appointment, effective Jan. 1, comes after an extensive search of candidates and a review of leading technology commercialization offices across…

In this installment of Science Study Break Dr. Carlton Erickson (Pharmacy–Addiction Science and Research Center) discusses the science of addiction, using scenes from “House MD,” “Nurse Jackie,” “E.R.,” and other shows.

The University of Texas at Austin’s Tower will be lighted orange with “12” displayed on the sides of the building windows Dec. 8 and 9 to honor about 3,100 students receiving degrees at the end of this fall semester.

Haley Eckerman and her teammates celebrate their Big 12 championship with a Tower lighting Tuesday, then host the early rounds of the NCAA tournament this week.

NBA Hall of Famer, Rhodes scholar and former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley will be the keynote speaker at The University of Texas at Austin’s Basketball and American Culture Symposium, sponsored by the H. J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports. In a talk titled “Values of the Game,” Bradley will discuss his basketball…