Turkey is currently facing civil unrest arising from religious and political conflicts between the Turkish people and their government. Being a political, cultural and geographic bridge between the United States and the Middle East and an important American ally, Turkey’s current situation could impact its relations with America.
Hundreds of activists convened at the Texas Capitol on Monday night to participate in a rally and march protesting the Texas Senate’s passage of legislation that will increase regulations and restrictions on abortions in Texas.
State legislators took a step closer to possibly impeaching UT System regent Wallace Hall at a public hearing on Monday, examining what precedents are at hand for the impeachment of appointed state officials.
Although most of the UT community is not on campus for the summer, students representing various ethnic communities at UT mulled the recent Fisher v. UT court decision handed down last month in a virtual town hall.
Muslim students can sometimes have a hard time finding places to eat for Ramadan, a period of prayer and fasting. The Nueces Mosque in West Campus provides free, daily meals for people to break their fast.
“Alien Rescue” is created by Min Liu, a professor in College of Education with the support from Mcdonald Observatory. According to Prof. Liu, “Alien Rescue” is an immersive multimedia-enhanced problem-based learning (PBL) environment for space science. It is designed for sixth graders to learn science by providing educational video games.
The University of Texas has roughly 4,700 trees on campus that are tended to by a team of six people, who help the trees combat the drought, construction damages and squirrels.
In this podcast, Bobby Blanchard, Christine Ayala and Jody Serrano discuss the most recent UT System Board of Regent meeting, the final stages of the abortion legislation in the Texas legislature and the life and death of UT's famous albino squirrel (which isn't really albino).
