UT officials are in Washington, D.C., today for oral arguments in a Supreme Court case whose outcome will have implications for how universities can factor race into admission decisions.

The poll surveyed 3,400 consumers who are representative of the U.S. population on their energy consumption behaviors, attitudes and beliefs.

UT employees had the opportunity to learn about what it takes to live a healthy lifestyle at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus on Saturday.

Appeals court rules in favor of UT in admissions policies case, but the possibility of Supreme Court action looms.

The UT System released 821 pages of information about each faculty member in the system’s nine academic institutions Thursday, including their salaries, number of semester hours taught and research expenditures.

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, journalism graduate student Avery Holton said many of his friends joined the military. That did not make sense for the then  20-year-old UT student, so he and a photographer decided to cover New York three months later.

It will cost more for Longhorn fans to enjoy the pre-football game sacraments of beer and grilled food if a Parking and Transportation Services proposal on tailgating passes.

Gold and green may not be UT’s colors, but the University may be seeing more of both.

UT System Board of Regents officials may have made the controversial hire of a special adviser without the necessary recommendation from the chancellor, according to emails obtained by the Houston Chronicle.

To close a $200,000 gap in the University’s shuttle service budget, the Enfield Road shuttle route will likely be combined with a mainline city route.

After student protests and months of examining and adjusting recommended cuts, three more Special Academic Centers will no longer receive funding from the College of Liberal Arts, Dean Randy Diehl announced Tuesday.

The Office of Business Affairs, which directs University Lands, sold almost $250 million of oil and gas leases Wednesday during its most lucrative semiannual lease sale in history.

  After hiring a $200,000-per-year adviser, the University of Texas System Board of Regents reassigned him last week and released a letter Friday addressing concerns about the Board’s commitment to academic research.

After falling in the Times Higher Education World University Ranking survey for the past six years, the University chose not to participate in last year’s survey.

Tuition at five of the UT System’s six health institutions will increase for the 2011-2012 academic year after the UT System Board of Regents approved the increases via teleconference Friday.

At a Hyde Park house where 12 UT students speak to one another in Arabic, a hair stylist new to the country offered haircuts as an opportunity to build her clientele base Sunday.

UT staff will soon have similar conflict resolution resources as faculty and students. Interviews for a new staff ombudsperson position began Thursday.

As the University’s budget has grown over the past 10 years, the percentage of state dollars in the budget has shrunk steadily.

Texas A&M’s medical school accepted more applicants for the class entering next year than it has room for, said an A&M administrator.

A UT student presented a resolution to the UT System Board of Regents on Thursday suggesting that they change the system investment policy, which the student said disregards the social and political impacts of its investments.

The Faculty Council unanimously passed its second resolution in two years affirming the current ban on concealed firearm carry on campus at a Monday meeting.

A plastic bottle likely exploded Tuesday afternoon on the South Mall near Homer Rainey Hall on the southwest side of the Six Pack, said a University Operations spokeswoman.

The University has made little progress to correct the gender inequities identified by the 2008 Gender Equity Report. The report made by a provost’s task force found inequities for female faculty in overall representation, pay and promotion and retention rates.

Gov. Rick Perry appointed on Tuesday two new members to the UT System Board of Regents and re-appointed another.

Despite the nation’s high unemployment rate, University graduates’ job prospects are improving, career service administrators said. Outside companies posted 51 percent more jobs University-wide in 2010 than they did last year.

Only five of the University’s 18 schools and colleges created and posted plans to address gender inequality in the faculty that a special task force reported in 2008.

A principle inventor of Ethernet joined the Cockrell School of Engineering this month as its only professor of innovation.

Leah Johnson was 16 years old when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. She spent the rest of her teenage years resisting Nazi forces from within Poland as part of a Jewish resistance group.

It’s likely that Republican midterm gains in Congress won’t lead to a federal ban on same-sex marriage, a UT law professor said Wednesday.