The UT Austin Tower will be in the darkened configuration the night of Thursday, April 7, 2016 in honor of student Haruka Weiser. The Tower will darken after a community gathering on the East Mall to honor Weiser and her life. Weiser, a first-year Theatre and Dance student, was tentatively identified as the victim of this week’s homicide …
Lighting Updates
Tower Turns Orange for Men’s Swimming & Diving National Title
The UT Tower will be lit in burnt orange with a numeral “1” on all four sides this evening (March 27) to commemorate the Texas men’s swimming and diving program’s 12th NCAA team title. Per campus tradition, the University recognizes UT sports programs with a burnt orange lighting of the campus landmark with the numeral …
Orange Tower Honors President’s Award Winners
The University of Texas at Austin Tower will glow orange Tuesday, March 8 in honor of three important awards bestowed by the university to deserving faculty and staff members. Civitatis Award Presented to a faculty member who has shown exemplary campus citizenship throughout a career of service at the university. Larry Carver Dean Neikirk Arno …
Tower Shines for Texas Independence Day
To mark Texas Independence Day, the university’s Tower will shine with entirely orange lights Wednesday, March 2. The holiday commemorates the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence and formation of the Republic of Texas in 1836. “For the proudest of Texans, it’s the most important day of the year,” says Jim Nicar, who studies …
Tower Lighting Honors Dual Big 12 Titles for Swimming and Diving
The UT Tower will be drenched in burnt orange lighting this evening (Feb. 27) in recognition of The University of Texas at Austin men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams’ impending victories at the Big 12 Championships. The four-day event ends tonight at UT’s Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. The men’s platform diving …
Tower Shines for Class of 2015
We’re lighting the Tower two nights in a row to honor the Class of 2015 as they leave the Forty Acres after Fall Commencement. The Tower will be lit orange and display “15” on its sides both Saturday, Dec. 5 and Sunday, Dec. 6. In honor of Commencement which, after all, marks a beginning an not …
Tower Shines for Volleyball’s Big 12 Championship Win
The University of Texas at Austin Tower will be lit burnt orange on the evening of Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015, to celebrate the Texas Volleyball team’s 2015 Big 12 Championship. The Longhorns earned their fifth-straight Big 12 title on Friday, Nov. 27, by defeating the Oklahoma Sooners 3-0 in Norman. This is the team’s ninth …
Tower Shines for Professor Goodenough’s Global Innovation
The University of Texas at Austin Tower will shine with an orange glow Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015, in honor of professor John B. Goodenough. Goodenough, who invented the lithium-ion battery, recently won the $1 million Samson Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation. The Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation in …
