The Daily Texan

5 days ago | thedailytexan.com | Diego Hernandez |Diego Esteban Hernández

The UT Systems Board of Regents pledged a “transformative” $100 million investment to the School of Civic Leadership, Board Chairman Kevin Eltife announced Thursday during a press conference. The investment will go towards renovating UT’s Biological Laboratories building into the new home for the School of Civic Leadership, Eltife said, with the renovation expected to be completed by 2028.

2 weeks ago | thedailytexan.com | Diego Hernandez |Diego Esteban Hernández

When art history junior Madeline Jewesson first started going to the Fine Arts Library to study, she had no idea how to check out a book. Eventually, she applied to be a student staffer, inspired from library staff who once helped her and was hired for a job of shelving books and helping patrons — the same way staff helped her. Above anything else at her job, Jewesson loved finding research topics while searching through the stacks, using some as a basis for her own research papers.

2 weeks ago | thedailytexan.com | Ren Leija

I truly have no idea how I ended up at the Texan — it honestly feels like a fluke. I had no journalism experience in high school, nor considered it before college. I spent the first semester of my freshman year in urban studies classes, and I only applied here in my second semester on a whim, just because one of my friends told me they were applying. Sorry to that friend, lol. In an alternate universe, we got to do this together. When I was hired, I was in complete shock. Was this a prank?

2 weeks ago | thedailytexan.com | Isa Almeida

It was a few weeks into my freshman year when a couple girls from my J 304 class took on the stage at the auditorium to announce them and some others were about to have their first Daily Texan stories published. Everyone clapped and cheered — professors, students, TAs. It was an incredible moment for them. But back in my seat, I felt embarrassed. Two weeks earlier, I had received my rejection email. “Why not me?” I thought to myself.

2 weeks ago | thedailytexan.com | Trinity Orosco

At 16, I stepped into The Daily Texan Basement for the first time. I attended a journalism conference at UT with my high school newspaper and instantly became captivated by a panel of Texan staffers sharing their experiences at the paper. As the session wrapped up, the adviser, Peter, led us down to the basement newsroom. Surrounded by seasoned student journalists in their element, I was completely in awe.