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THE PROVOST’S OFFICE

Academic Excellence Through Education, Research & Service

We partner with the campus to ensure all students succeed and thrive, faculty and staff are supported in their research and scholarship and the campus community has the support it needs as a world-class public research university.

New Core Curriculum Refocuses Undergraduate Education at UT Austin

For the first time in more than 20 years, The University of Texas at Austin has undergone an extensive review of its Core Curriculum and will implement a new Core Curriculum as the foundational education for all undergraduate students.

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America 250: Time for Texas

The ‘Pursuing Our Promise’ series at the LBJ Presidential Library turns its spotlight on treasures from Texas housed at the Briscoe Center for American History.

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Close-up macro photo of a pile of sand mixed with microplastics on a light gray surface. The mound consists mostly of small tan, beige, and white sand grains and shell fragments, interspersed with brightly colored plastic fragments, fibers, and pellets in blue, green, red, purple, and yellow, along with a few thin fishing-line-like strands.

The Microplastics Inside Us: Understanding Their Effects on the Human Body

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center are partnering to trace the journey of microplastic particles through the human body and their role in cancer development.

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Hook ’Em Here 2026: Interns Work, Learn and Grow

This summer, College of Education students interned with the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Austin Area and Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District.

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Landmarks Announces New Installation To Serve as a Student Gathering Space

“Floating Landscape” by artist Maya Lin will be embedded with lights that correspond to the stars on the night of the University’s founding in 1883.

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The Gold Rush Ended, But Its Entrepreneurial Legacy Didn’t, Study Finds

The gold rushes that drew hundreds of thousands of people to the American West may have left behind more than abandoned mines.

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New Fellowship Puts STEM Students at Center of Austin’s Defense Tech Boom

The Clements Center’s Defense Technology Fellows Program welcomes its first cohort this fall, connecting students in engineering, science and mathematics to defense companies, military commands and research labs that surround the UT campus.

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