A Wise Man Once Said
In a new book, Chancellor McRaven expands on life lessons from his famous commencement speech. The first piece of advice Admiral William H. McRaven, BJ ’77, Life...
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Learning From Children
The Priscilla Pond Flawn Child and Family Laboratory turns 90. Elizabeth Andrews can still remember running through the two giant hedges of honeysuckle along the...
Professor’s Sculpture Represents Austin at International Media Arts Exhibition
In a suburb just north of Paris, nine works of media art from countries across the globe line the Centre des Arts. Each contains a technological component—projections,...
UT Publishes Free Digital Edition of “The Collections”
More than 170 million cultural artifacts fill the university’s repositories, outdoing many of the largest collections in the nation. But people don’t have to...
The Days After: Students Pay Tribute to UT Stabbing Victims with Candlelight Vigil
Pain throws your heart to the ground, Love turns the whole thing around, Fear is a friend who’s misunderstood, But I know the heart of life is good. Those...
Cuba Libre
Four UT scholars get a dose of cultural immersion in Havana When a group of four Forty Acres Scholars boarded their plane from Havana, Cuba back to Florida earlier...
Out of the Vault
Some of UT’s rarest and most valuable artifacts are unearthed in a new exhibit. Fan made of feathers and tortoise shell belonging to Zelda Fitzgerald, ca....
Professor Yale Patt Receives 2017 Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship
The white walls in Yale Patt’s office aren’t decorated with much. A calendar where he’s penned in his trips to Sweden, Barcelona, and China hangs on one wall....
The Big Get: Governor’s University Research Initiative Brings Alumna Back to UT
Nine top researchers are packing up their labs and heading to Texas this year—and UT is getting one of them. A $34 million program, the Governor’s University...
Building for Maureen
After this Longhorn’s architect wife died three years ago, their teenage son built a Habitat for Humanity home in her honor. It’s an unusually warm and...
