Audience members in Bass Concert Hall held their breath Saturday night as performers engaged in feats of strength and complicated routines, tossing each other far into the air, performing handstands on single stacks of bricks and forming three person human towers.

A team of UT students is working to identify a genetic engineering project to follow-up on last year’s success at an international competition.

About 200 construction workers and supporters marched in West Campus on Friday in a protest against Callaway House, a private luxury freshman residence hall which they claimed withheld wages from about 30 workers until Thursday.

Noted photographers said what it’s like to be behind the lens in a talk on Friday where portraits, music and documentary techniques were discussed. 

International Socialist Organization members, students and staff marched to the Capitol today in protest of previous University budget cuts, as well as cuts proposed in a report that might privatize and cut back on university services.

When you wake up with a stuffy nose, according to UT biochemistry professor Andrew Ellington, you should be able to test yourself for the flu. 

A light show and celebration greeted the more than 10,000 finishers of Electric Run as they completed a colorful run accompanied by electronic music.

The plan proposes cost hikes on food, housing and other services, employee cutbacks and increased uses of UT assets.

Tari Jordan wants to teach elementary school English, and Free Minds, a program administrated out of UT, is helping her to do it.

Graduate students from UT have established a pilot project for processing organic waste in a poor settlement in the Dominican Republic’s Santo Domingo, establishing four composting sites.

Rebekah Scheuerle, a UT chemical engineering senior, received a full-ride scholarship to Cambridge University from the Gates Foundation last week, making her the third student in the department of chemical engineering to receive the highly competitive award.

Adam Johnson, a radio-television-film alumnus, had an idea that led him to found a company called Brightbox with more than 100 installations in the New York tri-state area. 

Professors Joseph Beaman Jr. and Sharon Wood were recently inducted into the National Academy of Engineering. Beaman's research involves the integration of solid freeform fabrication and selective laser sintering into 3D printing technology. Wood was inducted for her designs of reinforced concrete structures that can be used in earthquake-prone areas.

The Jesse H. Jones Communication Center’s (CMA) appearance is changing, with renovations that will make its interior resemble The Belo Center for New Media across the street. 

Former professor in College of Communication and College of Liberal Arts worked with the governments of dozens of countries to extablish exchange programs for faculty and students with universities in Texas.

The plastic foam packaging that often accompanies shipments to UT laboratories is now making its way to a recycling center.

The University cannot give faculty and staff a holiday the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, says Adrienne Howarth-Moore, director of UT’s human resource services.

15 Investor-Ready companies presented Thursday at the Texas Venture Expo.

The College of Communication celebrated what officials said is a new building for a new age in a dedication ceremony attended by campus leaders, building designers, distinguished guests and students Thursday.

A survivor of the Holocaust warned UT students that the same circumstances that led to his people’s treatment by Nazi Germany were being mirrored today.

The Austin City Council voted unanimously against a new sewage treatment plant.

UT law students and volunteers helped undocumented individuals organize the materials they needed to apply for relief.

UT will use $500,000 gathered from student fees to fund various new sustainability projects on campus this year.

UT fell one spot to No. 46 on U.S. News and World Report’s 2013 national university rankings.