Good Reads: 4 New Books from the Longhorn Universe to Read This November
Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldy Advice for Everyday Troubles By Taisia Kitaiskaia, MFA ’15 For years, Kitaiskaia ran an advice column for The Hairpin titled “Ask...
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Author Kate Dawson on Her Debut Book ‘Death in the Air’
Journalism professor Kate Dawson’s debut book tells the true story of how 12,000 people in post-World War II London died one winter. In 1952 London, two killers...
A Longhorn’s First Time at Texas-OU Weekend
The final seconds of the 2017 Texas-OU game were some of the most stressful moments of my young life. As I stood around the huge screen at the Texas State Fair...
UT-SG is Working to Bring Back Texas v. Texas A&M Rivalry
Six years ago, Longhorns and Aggies took to the football field for their final battle in a 117-year-long tradition (never forget: UT won 27-25). But no matter...
UT Becomes Leading Texas Public University in Graduation Success
In 2011, former UT president Bill Powers set the ambitious goal of raising four-year graduation rates from 51 percent that spring to 70 percent by 2017. Today,...
Highlights From President Fenves’ Third State of the University Speech
Wrapping up the end of his second year as president of The University of Texas and marking the start of a new semester, Greg Fenves gave his third State of the...
Monica Murrell Named 2017 Top Hand
Sitting in a room filled with nearly 100 other Longhorns, Monica Murrell, BA ’02, Life Member, never expected to hear her name called. What she thought was...
Longhorn Veterans Share What It’s Like to go From the Military to Civilian Life at UT
A little over a year ago, I sat with a former Marine sniper in the lobby of the LBJ School, passing time between panels at the first-ever Vietnam War Summit. A Longhorn,...
Harry Ransom Center’s ‘Mexico Modern’ Looks at Post-Revolutionary Mexico
In the sketch, ragged strokes outline a young Frida Kahlo, her head tilting sideways while she holds hands with her husband, muralist Diego Rivera. It was December...
5 New Books to Read in September From the Longhorn Universe
Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives edited by Holly Gleason Chock-full of essays written by and about female country artists,...
