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UT Tightens Commencement Security

Guests at UT’s commencement ceremonies next week can expect some extra security, including bag checks and a ban on large bags. “This is something we’ve...

 
 

Three Longhorns Named Student Academy Award Finalists

Before Spike Lee became one of the United States’ most highly respected film directors, he was a Student Academy Award winner. So were Trey Parker (South...

 
 

Longhorn Village Earns Five-Star Medicare Rating

Visitors to Longhorn Village, the Texas Exes’ UT-themed retirement community in Steiner Ranch, regularly remark that the place seems more like a luxury resort...

 
 

UT Is Transforming Education [Watch]

Can’t see the video? Click here. There’s no doubt that online education is growing rapidly. In 2010, more than 6.1 million students took an online...

 
 

Camera-Ready

The first rule of video job interviews: keep your pants on. This spring, the Forty Acres’ first interviewing room opened at the Perry-Castañeda Library. Equipped...

 
 

Judging By Our Covers

Celebrity alumni, sports stars, iconic campus buildings, mind-bending abstract illustrations—Alcalde covers have run the gamut throughout the past century, and...

 
 

A Longhorn in Tanzania

Whitney Easterling, BA ’12, Life Member, showed her Texas pride after bagging a cape buffalo on safari in Tanzania. Her father Jim Easterling, BBA ’63, LLB...

 
 

Texas Forever: March 2 Through the Years

How do you celebrate Texas Independence Day? From whistling to wine tasting, here’s how Texas Exes chapters have marked the occasion for over a century. Can’t...

 
 

May|June Alumni Authors

Chickamagua 1863: Rebel Breakthrough By Alexander Mendoza, BJ ’93, Life Member University of North Texas professor Mendoza is an expert in military history. In...

 
 

’Horns Down Under

When 16 Flying Longhorns explored Australia and New Zealand, they embraced every adventure—from tasting kangaroo tail to bungee jumping. With their “No worries,...

 
 
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