UT interim president appoints new provost, sidelining official who recently took the job
In his first email to UT, interim president appoints David Vanden Bout as provost. Jay Hartzell had appointed Rachel Mersey ...
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In first full day leading UT-Austin, Jim Davis replaces chief academic officer
Davis, who was named interim president one day earlier, replaced a provost who was named to the position by the university’s ...
UT-Austin researchers told to halt work on $6.1M worth of projects due to Trump orders
The fate of at least seven federally-funded projects has been cast into doubt after President Trump signed orders targeting ...
When formerly enslaved people relocated to and made their homes in Austin at the end of the Civil War
Because federal troops had been stationed in Austin after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Black Americans found a safe place to raise their families in Austin.
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A drunken brawl at an Austin hotel changed the course of the oil industry forever
Oilmen against limits on oil production attacked a state representative at the Stephen F. Austin hotel in 1933. The attack ...
UT System approves final design for new Stephen F. Austin State University agriculture and forestry buildings
"That’s more innovation, more research and more hands-on learning for our Lumberjacks," a spokesperson for SFA said in a ...