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....
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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...
How Did DNA Kits Become so Popular—and What’s Next?
When I first think about signing up for 23andMe in early 2018, the direct-to-consumer genetics testing company is running a campaign called “DNA of a Champion,”...
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...
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...
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...
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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
