* Students Demand Action brought together roughly 200 members of the UT community at South Mall Tuesday evening for a candlelight vigil honoring those lost and injured in the West Sixth Street shooting — a tragedy that has shaken the university and the broader Austin community. * The names of three lives lost

* Actor Timothée Chalamet sparked controversy in the arts world after comments made during a CNN and Variety Town Hall with Matthew McConaughey (RTF ’93, professor of practice at the Moody College of Communication) at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), where he said “and I don't wanna

Institutional Restructuring * The UT System Board of Regents approved the creation of a new School of Computing, set to open in Fall 2026, consolidating the disciplines of computer science, information, and statistics and data sciences under one roof within the College of Natural Sciences (UT News – School of Computing). * The

* UT researchers are deploying AI-powered digital twins — virtual replicas of real-world systems that use artificial intelligence to update in real time, predict future behavior, and guide high-stakes decisions across energy, medicine, defense, and natural hazards. * Unlike commercial AI that simply finds patterns, UT's scientific AI is trained through

* The University of Texas at Austin (henceforth "UT") has announced plans to merge several departments within its College of Liberal Arts into two newly structured departments as in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of European and Eurasian Studies (the Daily Texan; Austin American-Statesman)