UT Austin

The Trump administration has been slashing funding for a federal agency that supports biomedical research across the U.S. UT Austin professors say funding from the National Institutes of Health is essential for running their labs.

The U.S. Secretary of State has said more than 300 student visas have been revoked. That may include two recent graduates of UT Austin, who were staying in the country to work.

Students plan to protest the national conference. UT had no comment on the views of some of the conference speakers.

The move comes a few weeks after the Texas A&M System issued a similar ban, which is being challenged in court.

The demonstrators rallied against what they called an "ongoing crackdown" on protests against Israel's war in Gaza.

The Trump administration directed federal health officials to pause external communications last week, which prompted the National Institutes of Health to cancel meetings used to determine which research to fund. A UT professor has said if the pause lasts too long, it will be hard to reverse the impact.

The Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin announced Wednesday it has acquired the archive of the "Saturday Night Live" creator. The acquisition includes correspondence, scripts and photos from Michaels's teenage years through his storied career.

The Center for Computational Medicine arrives as the university prepares to build a new academic medical center where the cutting-edge technologies could be used.

The Travis County judge found prosecutors failed to get an indictment against Rich Heyman within the amount of time required by state law.

Hartzell's time as president was marked by controversy as he led the university through a state-mandated ban on DEI programs, as well as pro-Palestinian protests last spring. He'll start at SMU on June 1.