Exploring Outside the Lines
We all had one during our time in college: an elective course signed up for on a whim, perhaps begrudgingly, to fulfill that elusive flag requirement, in search...
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The Wildflower Center Is Planting a Field of Light
There’s plenty to see sprawled across the fields of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center nearly year round: pollinators flitting about native wildflowers,...
7 DAA Winners You’ve Seen in Hollywood
It’s no secret that there are plenty of Longhorns in the history books. But each year, only a few alumni receive The University of Texas’ highest honor:...
Here’s What the Texas Exes Staff Has Been up to This Summer
It’s summer here in Austin, which means the Forty Acres are quiet and the heat is oppressive. But we’re already busy getting ready for another burnt-orange...
Longhorn Glen Powell Is Finally Getting His Turn as a Leading Man
Glen Powell is a rare Hollywood type: the kind of guy who shows up early and stays late, with an easy grin and no complaints. Or at least, that’s how he is...
The Way Back: Willie’s Picnic
A crowd gathered for Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic concert, Austin, 1979. Mention the Fourth of July in Texas, and one person immediately comes to...
A New Program Is Filling Dell Seton Medical Center’s Halls With a Joyful Sound
The inaugural performance of the Red River Ensemble on May 11, 2022, in the hospital’s atrium. Even in Austin, the so-called live music capital of the world...
UT Researchers Might Solve the Mysteries of the Universe With the Most Powerful Telescope Ever
The James Webb Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, 2017. There’s never been a way to clearly see the past here...
The Way Back: The News Underground
Volunteer staff members at The Rag put together an issue of the weekly underground newspaper, circa 1970. In 1966, just two months after the tragic Tower shooting,...
UT’s Student-Run Microfarm Is Celebrating Its 10th Anniversary—and a New Period of Growth
Students work at UT’s first student-run organic urban farm, on March 6, 2022. On a recent early spring day behind the tennis courts at UT’s Wright-Whitaker...
