The 2014 Distinguished Alumnus Awards were among the most star-studded in the ceremony’s 56-year history. A Heisman Award recipient, a NASA astronaut who has flown...
It’s time to gear up for the 2015 legislative session.
Every other year in Texas, our elected representatives gather in Austin to do the state’s business. January...
Keep discovering long after you leave the Forty Acres.
In the summer of 2001, I arrived at the University of Texas for orientation certain about what I wanted to...
In 1906, the UT baseball team was in debt, so students created an event dubbed the Varsity Circus to raise money to get the baseball team out of the red and back...
A Longhorn does college all over again.
Les Amis Cafe is a Starbucks. The original Texadelphia sits empty behind boarded windows. Daniel Johnston’s iconic frog...
As told to Chris O’Connell. All illustrations by Melissa Reese.
A group of Flying Longhorns recently cruised around the Western Mediterranean aboard the Marina,...
New books of interest to the Longhorn Universe
Texas on the Table: People, Places, and Recipes
Celebrating the Lone Star State
By Terry Thompson-Anderson; Photos...
An English professor pays tribute to his home on campus.
The girl just ahead of me is talking excitedly on her iPhone. She is in a world of her own, and I listen....
How would the Romans have said “Hook ’em Horns”?
Among the many talents of Ward Farnsworth, dean of UT’s School of Law, is a prodigious knowledge of Latin....
Yik Yak
For an unfiltered look into life on the Forty Acres, download Yik Yak, a proximity-based, fully anonymous message board where pretty much anything goes....
