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...
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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,...
Meet Alejandrina Guzman, UT’s First Latina Student Body President
As the first Latina student body president at UT and the first student with a disability elected to the position in the Big 12, Alejandrina Guzman is ready to lead. After...
Hurricane Harvey’s Effects on Longhorn Community
After the devastating Hurricane Harvey hit land on Friday, flooding Texas cities and displacing more than 30,000 people, here’s what we know about its...
July|August 2017 Good Reads
Armadillo World Headquarters: A Memoir by Eddie Wilson, with Jesse Sublett The year was 1975 when Threadgill’s owner Eddie Wilson created Armadillo World Headquarters...
