This High-Flying Former UT Cheerleader Is Giving Back
Amy Porter with members of Texas Cheer & Pom. On a warm September day in 2016, Amy Porter put on her Texas cheerleading uniform and headed toward Darrell...
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The Famed Scottish Rite Dormitory Is Celebrating 100 Years This Fall
For the past century, the Scottish Rite Dormitory, a stately, Georgian-inspired residential building, has sat on a picturesque plot of West 27th Street. Three...
How Title IX Helped Level the Playing Field
Texas Softball vs. Texas A&M, May 2, 2009. When the Anna Hiss Gymnasium opened at The University of Texas in 1931, it broke barriers as the first space on...
Longhorn John Schwartz Returns to UT After a Storied Journalism Career
Earlier this year, John Schwartz, BA ’79, JD ’84, became one of the millions of Americans who left their jobs during the pandemic. After nearly four decades...
One of Austin’s Teeniest Attractions is Coming Back in a Big Way
For 60 years, one of Austin’s most beloved attractions was a tiny little train that ran on a very short track and carried just a couple dozen kids and their...
How UT Research Led to the Development of the COVID-19 Vaccine in Record-Breaking Time
Jason McLellan in his lab on January 18, 2021. Credit: Matt Wright-Steel On January 6, 2020, Jason McLellan and his wife, Jinelle, were in Park City, Utah, for...
Reframing History with the Blanton’s New Modernist Latin American Art Exhibit
“What was that? I can’t hear you,” is the refrain on a crackling telephone line intermittently cutting out only to have the sound return as an echo. We’re...
Kendra Scott Wants to Change the Game for Women in Business—Starting With UT Students
Three years ago, Kendra Scott moved her company’s headquarters from Austin’s trendy South Congress strip to an office on North Lamar Boulevard, near the increasingly...
How a Recent UT Grad Became an Ambassador for Bumble on Campus
Like many of us lucky enough to attend college, my time in school was spent attending class, working a part-time retail job, studying abroad, and spending hours...
Meet the UT Austin Student Who Hosts Her Own Netflix Show
For University of Texas at Austin student and actress Sahana Srinivasan, life changed overnight via a single phone call. In fall 2017, the radio-television-film...
