Much Ado About a Dress Code
Summer has arrived on the Forty Acres, and that means students are wearing more shorts and tank tops—plus the requisite sweater for that frigid Texas air conditioning....
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Go Inside UT’s Greenhouses [Watch]
Can’t see this video? Click here. As we head into summer, the lawns of the Forty Acres will no doubt soon start to look a little crisp—but the UT greenhouses...
Chancellor to Conduct System-Wide Admissions Inquiry
A report released this week by the UT System found that letters of recommendation from legislators may in some cases have carried extra weight in UT-Austin admissions—and...
Ransom Center Adds Ian McEwan Archive
At age 11, Ian McEwan earned a B in his English class. “Has done well—sometimes careless,” noted his teacher in the margin of his report card. She...
The Red-Headed Stranger Gives His Archives to UT
A firefighter’s helmet handed over as a token of thanks to a man who gave generously to relief efforts after the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in West,...
Kevin Durant’s MVP Acceptance Speech Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity [Watch]
We’ve known for a long time that former Longhorn basketball star Kevin Durant is a class act. Durant is a man with a history of being generous in ways both...
The LBJ School Goes to Washington
For more than four decades, UT’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs has been preparing future policy wonks, government leaders, nonprofit heads, and...
View From the Top
Social-media savvy astronaut Karen Nyberg is an engineer, an inventor, an athlete, a science communicator, a crafter, and a mom. A look inside her otherworldly career—and...
If You Build It, They Will Come
How a small-town chapter built a big-name speaker series. On a Texas map, San Angelo is a lonesome dot 200 miles northwest of Austin and 100 miles east of Midland....
Top 10 Percent Plan Shifts Students to Public Colleges, Study Finds
Texas’ so-called “Top 10 percent plan”—it’s really more of a Top seven percent plan—has been both praised and maligned for offering...
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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
