This Texas Exes Chapter Plants a Tree for Every Longhorn Football Win
About 60 miles west of Houston is Bellville, a place some 4,000 people call home. It’s the county seat of Austin County and not far from Brenham—famous for...
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Match Made in Texas
Whether you believe in destiny or fateful meetings beneath the glow of the Tower, one thing is certain: UT is a beautiful place to fall in love.
After Conquering the Business World With Ross Perot, Steve McElroy Turned to Fine Art
Steve McElroy, BBA ’81, knows how to bet on himself. One day in 1988, he sent a letter to business magnate and former presidential candidate Ross Perot about...
Creator of UT’s Famous ‘Beyoncé Class’ Combines Memoir and Study in New Book
In one of the closing scenes of Beyoncé’s “Formation” music video, the final segment of her 2016 viral visual album Lemonade, she stands in front of the...
Four Books From the Longhorn Universe to Kick Off Fall 2018
Never Lost Again by Bill Kilday, BA ’90, MPA, MBA ’94 These days avoiding traffic jams and getting from Point A to Point B is as easy as plugging in information...
Texas Exes Shanghai Chapter Looks at China and UT’s Icy Explorations
James Bond hopped in the cockpit of a DC-3 airliner in Quantum of Solace. Indiana Jones, too, took a ride on the gleaming aircraft. More recently, the plane made...
UT Alumnus’ Debut Novel Takes Readers on a Texas Panhandle Adventure
Randy Kennedy, BA ’91, grew up in Plains, Texas, a small cotton-farming town in the Panhandle. It was isolated, flat, and dry. He filled his time with books,...
Meet the Alumni Who Helped Get Ellsworth Kelly’s ‘Austin’ to UT
[For an in-depth look at the story of Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin, check out “Sacred Space: Look Inside Ellsworth Kelly’s Last Work at the Blanton Museum,”...
Sacred Space: Look Inside Ellsworth Kelly’s Last Work at the Blanton Museum
In 2015, renowned artist Ellsworth Kelly gifted his most monumental work to the Blanton Museum of Art. The soon to be open building is a chapel of joy and contemplation — and...
New Blanton Photography Exhibit Explores the Mythology of the American Road Trip
The American road trip has been eternalized in books like Kerouac’s novel, in movies like Easy Rider, and in songs like Simon and Garfunkel’s “America.”...
