A Year Into the Pandemic, Checking in With the People Who Keep Campus Running
Nearly a year after students left the Forty Acres for spring break 2020, campus is still far emptier than usual, with many of UT’s faculty, staff, and even students...
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New UT Research Could Help Turn Inhospitable Soil into Fertile Ground
Around May of last year, after a few months of working (and doing just about everything else) from home, I decided to turn my concrete balcony into something...
Our 2020 Outstanding Young Texas Exes on How They Got Here—and What’s Next
These four Longhorns have achieved big success before even turning 40. Initiated in 1979, the Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award recognizes Texas Exes age 39 and...
A Look at Some of Longhorn David Lake’s Most Stunning Architectural Designs
In 1971, the same year David Lake arrived on the Forty Acres, the very first Schlotzsky’s opened amid a row of small, shuttered storefronts on South Congress...
How a Brand-New Med School Faces the Biggest Health Care Crisis in a Century
As soon as Clay Johnston’s video pops up on Zoom on the morning of June 19, the dean of Dell Medical School apologizes to me. “I’m a little distracted...
Back to School: Reimagining the World of Fashion From Home
On the day I sit in on Eve Nicols’ “Aesthetics: Theory & Practice” textiles and apparel course, the professor of instruction is waxing poetic about fabric,...
This Austinite Voted Dell Med into Existence—Now She’s One of the School’s First Graduates
Eight years ago, Travis County residents had a decision to make: did they want a medical school badly enough they were willing to pay higher property taxes to fund...
Discovering Lost Literary Works on the Forty Acres
Inside UT’s historic Gregory Gym is a modern-looking annex that was surely not part of the campus institution’s original floor plan in 1930. Or at the very...
Rising Literary Stars Lara Prescott and Maya Perez Compare Notes on Their Careers
Lara Prescott is barely a year out of her MFA program at UT’s Michener Center for Writers, but her debut novel, The Secrets We Kept, is already in its third...
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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
