Introducing the 2018 Distinguished Alumni
As is tradition, this fall several hundred Longhorns will gather to celebrate a group of their most accomplished peers with moving video tributes, heartfelt...
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UT’s First Student Startup Fund Gets a Major Boost
Less than two days after the Genesis Program launched it’s Hornraiser campaign, it is already 98 percent of the way toward its ambitious goal of $1,200,000—thanks...
Wall to Wall: Finding Majesty in the Intricacies of Egypt’s Past and Present
On my first day in Cairo, jetlagged and disoriented, I boarded a bus with 27 other intrepid Flying Longhorns and was shuttled off through the dusty, bustling streets...
After Surviving the Holocaust, Adam Heller Works to Make the World a Better Place Through Engineering
On a balmy March day last year around lunchtime, students squeezed into a standing-room-only lecture hall on the bottom floor of the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering...
New Book by UT Journalism Professor Looks at Life of Counterculture Icon Timothy Leary
In the early 1970s, an ex-Harvard professor named Timothy Leary, who had become the “High Priest of LSD,” became something else: President Nixon’s public...
Ahead of the Game: Honoring the 2017 Outstanding Young Texas Exes
This past October at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, before kickoff for what turned into a close and hard-fought victory for the Longhorns against Kansas State,...
The Results Are In: New Survey Shows UT Austin Alumni Are Thriving
According to a survey of UT’s undergraduate alumni conducted this past spring, Longhorns are doing alright, alright, alright. Since 2014, the Gallup-Purdue Index...
Honoring the 2017 Distinguished Alumni
Each year, some of UT’s finest return to campus for a weekend to celebrate their accomplishments and receive the highest honor awarded to UT Austin alumni:...
President Fenves Honored by Holocaust Museum Houston
On Thursday at the Hilton Americas-Houston, the Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) presented their 2017 Guardian of the Human Spirit award to The University of Texas...
One Virtuoso’s 40-Year Journey to Build a Music Mecca in Round Top, Texas
How pianist James Dick turned a city dump into the sprawling 210-acre Festival Hill campus.
