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LBJ School Unveils the Willie Nelson Endowment for Uplifting Rural Communities
By Katey Psencik Outka
This September will mark 38 years since music legends Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp organized the first-ever Farm Aid concert to raise money...
Q&A: A New Memoir from a Longhorn Astrophysicist Looks Up
By Katey Psencik Outka
Sarafina El-Badry Nance, author of “StarStruck” Sarafina El-Badry Nance has always loved looking up at the stars. It’s one of the first things...
As Pickleball Rises in Popularity, One Longhorn Is at the Center of It All
By Ava Motes
Shields playing pickleball in Bel Air, California. It was a bright morning in the fall semester of 2022 when MBA student Thomas Shields’ phone buzzed with...
Men’s Basketball Head Coach Rodney Terry Led the Longhorns to Their Best Season in 15 Years and Is Looking Ahead
By Jason Cohen
Rodney at the Texas vs. Rice game, 2023. It was one heck of a birthday present, even if Rodney Terry would have gladly taken it belated. On March 27, the...
Two UT Austin Professors Snag the ‘Nobel Prizes’ of Their Fields
By Alcalde Staff
By Marc Airhart and Nat Levy Winning a Nobel Prize brings unmistakable cachet, but for many of the sciences—essentially anything outside of chemistry,...
Finding Lady Bird
By Jade Emerson
Lady Bird Johnson in the bluebonnets at the Wildflower Center. On an early summer evening in 2022, the world around me hummed with sound: the gentle roar of...
Logan Eggleston Has More In Store After Texas Volleyball
By Jason Cohen
Eggleston in a 2022 game against Texas Tech. Logan Eggleston, BBA ’22, Life Member, was already going to be a Longhorn legend prior to her senior year, but...
This Program Brings Students and Alumni Together Over Dinner
By Ava Motes
Dinner with 16 Longhorns at Tony and Kristin Schell’s house, Nov. 30, 2022. At first, it seemed like a simple networking opportunity to Bobby Meza, a second-year...
The Cohen New Works Festival Offers Students the Opportunity to Experiment With Their Art
By Emma Balter
Dope Fit! from the 2019 Cohen New Works Festival. Professor Kirk Lynn, head of the playwriting program at The University of Texas at Austin, often tells fellow...
A New Book Aims to Demystify Fertility and Its Industry
By Katey Psencik Outka
She worked as an art director at several top marketing firms. She’s an advisor to various early-stage startups. She helped launch a health startup accelerator...