College Degrees Keep the Doctor Away
Everyone knows that a college degree can help you get a better job. But what about lengthening your life? Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD ’11, and UT sociologists Robert...
July | August 2012
New Deans Get Candid
In June, the Forty Acres family welcomed Linda Hicke, former Northwestern associate research VP, to lead the College of Natural Sciences, and Ward Farnsworth, former...
Trends: Acrobatics, Acronyms, Apps, and More
Draw Something Temple Run may have had its 15 minutes of fame this spring—it was a featured trend in our March|April issue— but it’s now an app of the past....
The GPS Dot: Friend or Foe?
In the beginning of the 2006 blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, Professor Robert Langdon, played by Tom Hanks, reaches cautiously into his pants pocket, delicately...
Talk Back: Responses to our May|June Issue
{ May | June 2012 } “The ‘D’ Word” Our cover story on drought prompted everything from praise to complaint to a down-home Texas comeback. Juli Berwald called...
Reading, Writing, & Revolution
You’ve never taken a flipped class, but your kids and grandkids will. In this learning revolution, homework and classwork are being switched, teachers are...
Come Hotel or High Water
A West Texan turned urban tastemaker, hotelier Liz Lambert combines a rancher’s steely drive with a South Austinite’s laid-back cool. After kick-starting the...
Alumni Authors: From James Madison to the Blues
—RECENTLY PUBLISHED— Letters to Alice: Birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch Dynasty by Jane Clements Monday, BS ’63, Distinguished Alumna, and Frances Brannen Vick,...
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Learn to Crack the Maya Code [Watch]
As darkness fell over Antigua, Guatemala, UT Maya expert David Stuart (“Secrets of the Maya,” July|August 2012) and I sat in rocking chairs at UT’s...
Secrets of the Maya
Could the world really end in 2012—a date referenced on a Maya calendar? The UT expert who helped crack the Maya code says the truth is wilder than you know. [Watch...
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Matt Portillo: Interesting perspective, as always, Tim. It's been an interesting week indeed. T...
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Jerry Cooper: Mr. Taliaferro: Let me commend you for your article about Chairman Powell's "Fo...
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ethan: well, we kill fire ants so often that they are weker now so the "crazy ants" can...
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Kathleen Bergeron: Regarding that new logo: I live in the Washington, DC area, and I wonder how man...
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Melvin: Yes he had 5 years. I wonder what he scored on his ACT when he was a senior in H...
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