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In order to discover and address systemic problems facing men of color in higher education, the Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights continues the legacy of one famous African-American.
UT and KLRU combined efforts to present current African-American issues to the mass media Thursday night in hopes of creating a future series featuring University professors.
All 18 protesters arrested Wednesday in the lobby of President William Powers Jr.’s office were released from Austin Police Department custody Thursday morning and gathered on the Tower steps at noon to reiterate their message and rally support.
The protesters, who are members of the Make UT Sweatshop-Free Coalition, drew more than 50 people to the rally.
“Students took lessons that they learned in the classes taught here at UT ... and applied them to the real-world situation of the conditions of their own education and asked the University to commit to real monitoring agencies under the Worker Rights Consortium. Instead of being praised for their convictions, the administration has sought to vilify them for ‘trespassing.’”
Math teachers may rate white female students as less capable than white male students regardless of test scores, according to new UT research.
A recent study co-authored by assistant professor Catherine Riegle-Crumb and doctoral student Melissa Humphries has found that math teachers are likely to be biased against white female students.
Assertive professional women often face social consequences for their boldness, said business assistant professor Emily Amanatullah.
Amanatullah researched the role of gender in the workplace and said in her lecture on Wednesday that there are still gender disparities in the professional environment despite great strides made by women in the past century.
According to her research, only 14.1 percent of Fortune 500 corporate officers are female, while 16.1 percent of Fortune 500 board seats are occupied by women.
Preschool may be the answer to reducing the achievement gap between children from privileged and underprivileged families, according to a psychological study conducted by a UT professor.
America’s perception of computer scientists has shifted from the 1960s computer girl to the modern IT guy because of a masculinization of the industry and sexist advertising content, said Nathan Ensmenger, assistant professor of information.
Ensmenger spoke on Tuesday about the history of the declining number of women in computer science. He said his research showed that the qualifications of a computer programmer have been skewed to match male characteristics.
Similar to Iago’s betrayal of Othello, various components of computer operating systems can manipulate the applications and technologies we use in our computers.
Beneath an umbrella next to a sign declaring “Knowledge is Beautiful,” anthropology and Plan II senior Rashika Pedris read an excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” Wednesday morning as part of a protest against the ban of books in a public school district in Arizona.
Many French soldiers during World War I possessed the concept of Le Système D, which is understood as coping, managing, making do or muddling through situations, Elizabeth Murphy said.
Murphy, assistant professor of French at Oberlin College and potential faculty member for UT’s French and Italian department, discussed the experience of French soldiers in the trenches during a talk on Friday.
Professor Hervé Picherit, candidate for the Modernist position in French Studies for the UT Department of French and Italian, visited UT to give a presentation discussing the work of French writer and director Chris Marker.
Raised in Laramie, Wyoming by French-speaking parents, Picherit is currently an assistant professor of French at the University of Wyoming. Picherit’s teaching interests center around Early Modern French Literature.
It is a nation’s duty to record the truth through archives and to overcome the challenges of assembling those archives, said John Ciorciari, assistant professor of public policy at the University of Michigan.
Ciorciari lectured Monday as part of a series on human rights sponsored by the Rapoport Center in the School of Law.
The plant kingdom has been a source of inspiration for the management of the human population, said Lesley Stern, a professor at the University of California in San Diego.
Stern spoke to the Department of Anthropology on Monday as part of this year’s seminar series, titled “Sensorium: Anthropology and the Senses.” Her lecture focused on connections between plant genetics and views of the human gene pool.
The intriguing results of a study conducted by the UT Study Abroad Office found that 60 percent of UT students who study abroad graduate in four years, compared to 45 percent of non-participants, according to The Daily Texan.
Mexican Americans were historically neglected both in education and in government representation, according to two UT professors who presented their research Wednesday.
Older people make better decisions than younger people overall, according to a new study released by psychologists at UT and Texas A&M University.
Shifting toward educational efficiency means increased class sizes, cutting back on some courses and not giving students an opportunity to explore different fields, said professors and students at a discussion Thursday.
Because of budget cuts, universities have been focusing on educating students more efficiently, said Anne Martinez, assistant professor in the Department of History, at a Liberal Arts Council discussion about the importance of studying the humanities and social sciences.
A soaked book rested on a table with plain paper towels between every few pages to dry it. Nearby, students and community members removed soot from burned documents with a soft brush and dry rubber sponge.
These demonstrations were part of a workshop the School of Information hosted Sunday to teach volunteers how to salvage documents and potentially help people affected by the wildfires in Central Texas.
The Lancet, a British medical journal, released a report last week describing the epidemic of rising rates of obesity in America and across the world.
According to the study, 50 percent of American adults will be considered obese by the year 2030 if the government does not make this issue a priority.
The report partially accredits individual lifestyle choices, such as diets that are high in fats, sodium and sugars, as well as lack of daily exercise to factors leading to obesity.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board released an annual report Thursday indicating progress toward improving the state’s reputation for higher education.
The University introduced a new research program that aims to address the declining number of Latino males pursuing higher education at a symposium Friday.
UT's Division of Diversity and Community Engagement hosted the Latino Male Symposium on campus and presented the initiatives of its new program Project MALES, or Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success. The program is designed to find solutions to educational obstacles Latino male students commonly face.
Unemployed graduates may be better off staying in Austin after a new report shows the city is No. 1 in professional opportunities for young adults.
Young women wrote down their favorite and least favorite physical attributes in a body image exercise at a symposium Sunday.
The women found the features they disliked were often what someone else liked best about them during the exercise.
“It reinforced self-beauty, and I felt it really empowered some people,” said Ariel Taylor, chair of Umoja, a black women’s student group that sponsored the event.
Black and Hispanic college students are more likely to face family crises that reduce their chances of graduating on time, according to a study presented at an annual conference Saturday.
Bradley Cox, assistant professor of higher education at Florida State University, and Robert Reason, associate professor of education at Pennsylvania State University, studied the frequency and effects of stressful family situations for more than 2,500 students in 22 selective institutions. Family crises included a parent losing a job or a family member becoming a crime victim.
