On Tuesday, UT announced that Thomas Edgar, a chemical engineering professor, will be promoted to interim director of the research-scandal-plauged UT Energy Institute
Kimberly McCarthy, the first woman scheduled to be executed in the United States since 2010, won a reprieve when a state district court halted a lethal injection on Jan. 29, only hours before it was scheduled to take place in Huntsville.
We acknowledge that it is less costly to graduate in four years than five, but we remain unconvinced that raising four-year graduation rates is truly in the interest of individual students’ educations.
Revisions to both state and federal drug laws are long overdue. Hopefully Texas legislators will realize just what Texas law sacrifices in the name of a little bit of dope.
The effects of full-time employment pose challenges to graduating in four years, but new programs to incentivize behaviors consistent with student success are in the works.
UT’s Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium is a game-changing initiative that pairs undergraduates with both graduate students and real-world internship opportunities.
On Monday, Feb. 3, two bills filed in the Texas House and Senate detailed plans for the creation of a Rio Grande Valley university by joining UT-Brownsville, UT-Pan American and the UT Regional Academic Health Center.
Want to study in Brazil or Portugal? The Daily Texan columnist offers an alternative to UT's study abroad programs: a do-it-yourself approach that will earn you valuable class credit for less than half the cost.