Meet the Longhorn Serving as Chairman of the UT System’s Board of Regents
After graduating from high school in Tyler, Texas, Kevin P. Eltife wanted to stay close to home, so he enrolled at Southern Methodist University. But, as...
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Longhorn Gary Kelly Is Remaking the Once-Tiny Southwest Airlines
“I don’t like to lose,” Gary Kelly says to a room full of Texas football players, who nod their heads in agreement. The 64-year-old chairman of the board...
Slowing Down in Costa Rica
I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions. But this past December, during my first-ever visit to Big Bend National Park, I began to take note of things like ice...
How UT Became Home to One of the Nation’s Largest Collections of Latin American Art
A new exhibition at the Blanton explores the intersection of Latin American art and language—and celebrates a field that The University of Texas helped bring to...
Our 2018 Outstanding Young Texas Exes on What’s Shaped Their Success
Michelle Carter, BS ’07, Life Member A three-time Olympic shot putter, Michelle Carter won a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics on her final throw of 20.63...
‘Bowlaway’ Takes Readers Into the Mysterious Lives of a New England Family
As a Boston native now living in Texas, UT’s James A. Michener Chair in Fiction Elizabeth McCracken knew she wanted her next book to be a “very New England”...
A New Book Tells the Story of Longhorn O.H. “Bud” Frazier and His Quest to Build an Artificial Heart
Texas Monthly executive editor and Houstonian Mimi Swartz says that, in some ways, the subject of her latest book was always right under her nose—she just didn’t...
Fifty Years Later, Longhorn Siblings Gift Their Mom a Class Ring
Despite the nasty weather, sisters Christina Stock and Jodi Lowther couldn’t stop grinning on their drive from Dallas to Austin this past Friday afternoon. “We...
UT Alumni Advocate for Higher Ed at Fourth Annual Longhorns on the Hill
Around nearly every corner of the bustling U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, Sept. 5, from the Rayburn building to Longworth, you could spot burnt orange....
UT en México: A Growing UT Presence Nearly 1,000 Miles South of the Forty Acres
On an unusually warm June Saturday afternoon in Mexico City at the base of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Santa Fe Campus, a gaggle...
