What I've Done

  • The UT System Board of Regents approved building plans for the $334 million Dell Medical School on Thursday.
  • Chris Garcia, a 2012 McCombs graduate, is the founder and CEO of SegUrWay, a pay-as-you-go Segway-sharing company.
  • The Horn’s Hugo Sanchez had the opportunity to sit down with former student government president and vice president, Thor Lund and Wills Brown, to reflect on their past year in office.
  • UT's Student Government passed resolution AR1 In Support of Preserving the Gender and Sexuality Center at Tuesday night’s Student Government meeting. This follows controversy earlier this month over a student resolution at ...
  • The UT Student Government assembly voted down a revolutionary resolution Wednesday that would have instructed UTPD to treat people with four ounces of marijuana or less as their lowest priority for law enforcement.
  • UT Entrepreneurship Week (UTEWeek), a week-long series events meant to foster communication between student entrepreneurs at UT and father develop their work, began Sunday and will continue until Thursday night.
  • Following an outpouring of support from The Daily Texan's alumni network, the Texas Student Media Board voted Friday to cut student wages at its properties by 50 percent instead of reducing print of The Daily Texan and the Te...
  • SG president Thor Lund and vice president Wills Brown released their last "State of the Forty Acres" YouTube address of the fall semester early Thursday. They discussed initiatives with RecSports, the SURE Walk program and In...
  • StandOut, a student organization that advocates for GLBTQ issues at UT-Austin, is fighting for gender-neutral housing options on campus through a petition that has around 700 signatures. UT-Austin currently only offers same-s...
  • Get used to seeing Student Government leaders on YouTube. SG passed a bill Tuesday that in effect requires SG’s future presidents and vice presidents to continue producing video addresses aimed at students.
  • Student entrepreneurs at UT-Austin are working on projects ranging from video games to healthcare technology innovation. The 1 Semester Startup course exists to support them and connect them with a network of fellow entrepren...
  • During the day, most campus buildings are open for passersby to enter and use the water fountains inside, but most of these buildings are locked at night and on weekends. Student Government president Thor Lund and vice presid...
  • Multiple student organizations held both partisan and nonpartisan election watch parties on Tuesday night for UT students to watch the results of national and state elections.
  • Members of SG’s executive board, including the president and vice president, are paid to serve in their respective positions. All told, executive compensation accounts for a third of the organization’s budget, which is fu...
  • SG president Thor Lund and vice president Wills Brown took to YouTube for the second time this semester to tell students about SG’s biggest accomplishments to date, including the creation of Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency...
  • This is the first installment of the The Horn’s SG Midterm series. The Horn takes a look at UT’s largest student governance organization six months after its latest crop of elected leaders began their yearlong term.
  • Senate of College Councils voted to approve a new university honor code Thursday. If the code is approved by President Bill Powers, it will go back to Senate for implementation.
  • UT Student Body President Thor Lund and Vice President Wills Brown launched their first UT Student Government YouTube Address on Wednesday, which aims to inform students of their progress in an effort to be more transparent a...
  • The world's first permanent photograph from nature is on the move from UT's Harry Ransom Center to Mennheim, Germany as part of an exhibition titled, "The Birth of Photography: Milestones from the Gernsheim Collection."
  • The St. David's Foundation has awarded grants of more than $2 million to the School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin.