TXEXplainer: The Presidential Search
You’ve probably heard that sometime soon the University of Texas will have a new president. Later this spring, the Board of Regents will appoint the 29th...
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Texas Loses Texas Bowl to Arkansas, 31-7
The Advocare V100 Texas Bowl was the perfect place for Texas to reassert its dominance after a lackluster 6-6 regular season. NRG Stadium was sold out for the first...
Horns … Down? Arkansas Coach Bielema Trolls Texas
During a handshake with Texas coach Charlie Strong at today’s Advocare V100 Texas Bowl coaches press conference, Arkansas coach Bret Bielema slyly threw in what...
Food of the Future
From eating crickets to farming with fish, UT’s Food Lab is rewarding food innovators. There are 7 billion of us on the planet, a number the United Nations...
Optimism for Texas Football After Hex Rally
What’s the best way to win football games? Some would say hard work or determination. There’s another, more mythical answer, though: hexes. Hexes are what have...
Waller Creek Lights Up
Can’t see this slideshow? Click here. On most evenings Waller Creek is unlit and generally not trafficked, save for Austin’s homeless population....
Searching for Hard-Hitting Solutions to Traumatic Brain Injury
Earlier this season, former UT quarterback David Ash made the decision to quit after suffering a series of concussions so severe that team doctors told Ash that...
Texas Fight: The Torchlight Parade and Rally in Pictures
Save for a 20-year hiatus in the ’70s and ’80s, UT’s Torchlight Parade and Rally has been going strong since 1916, when Longhorns cheered for...
Bob Woodward on Ethics and the State of Journalism Today
At the height of the Cold War, investigative journalist Bob Woodward received a phone call from a high-ranking Naval intelligence officer. “I have a story for...
UT Professor Recommends We Work Less For Our Own Good
So many Japanese workers have died at their desks since the 1980s that there’s a word for it: karoshi, “death by overwork.” The term is legally recognized...
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This Texas Ex Is Singing His Cowboy Songs in Music City
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How a Former Marine Built UT’s National Championship Weightlifting Team
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Two Award-Winning Professors (and One Hollywood Celebrity) Make Science Cool
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The Way Back: Hoop Dreams
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Good Reads Q&A: This Children’s Book Brings Social-Emotional Learning to Life in Technicolor
