UT Seniors Make Their Runway Debut [Slideshow]
After the lights in the Frank Erwin Center abruptly shut off, silence washes over the crowd. All that can be seen is a dark silhouette against a bright blue background....
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UT Vice Provost Accepts Position at Cornell
She’s taught at UT, MIT, Princeton, and Harvard. She’s performed extensive research on women’s political activism, constitutional law and history, democratic...
Harry Ransom Center Appoints New Director
The Harry Ransom Center’s director of 25 years, Thomas F. Staley, will retire on Aug. 31, and the HRC has appointed the head librarian of the Folger Shakespeare...
The Perils of Medical Melodramas
Last season’s Grey’s Anatomy finale featured a dramatic plane crash that killed two doctors. One survivor had to have her leg amputated, while another...
UT Student’s Viral Hit Is the Darker Side of Disney [Watch]
They say they all lived happily ever after—but what really happened to the Disney princesses after their dreams came true? According to UT sophomore Jon “Paint”...
Longhorn Astronaut Heads Back to Space
Karen Nyberg dreamed of being an astronaut ever since she was a child, but while conducting graduate research at UT in 1997, she seemed a bit discouraged. That...
Seismos Team Wins Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition
Seismos, the 2013 Master of Science in Technology Commercialization team, won this year’s Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition and will go on to compete...
Legendary Portraits on Display at the Ransom Center
From Pablo Picasso to Marilyn Monroe, Arnold Newman captured them all. One of the most successful portrait photographers of the 20th century, Newman photographed...
From Sociophobia to the National Stage
Who’d have guessed that a UT student who feared speaking in front of his peers would go on to be an award-winning actor? Max McLean wouldn’t even have predicted...
Longhorn Love: A Camp Texas Proposal
Longhorns Patrick Ferrell, BS ’12, Life Member, and his girlfriend of four years, Danica Schmidt, BS ’11, Life Member, met as incoming freshmen at Camp...
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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
