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How February’s Once-in-a-Generation Storm Altered Life on Campus and Across the City

How February’s Once-in-a-Generation Storm Altered Life on Campus and Across the City

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Sunday, February 14, 2021 As lovebirds hunker down together to celebrate Valentine’s Day with what looks to be a romantic evening snowfall, rumors swirl...

 
 
UT Researchers On What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs

UT Researchers On What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs

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In 2016, Sean Gulick and a team of researchers extracted asteroid dust from sections of dark brown, silty claystone and greyish-green marlstone buried beneath...

 
 

How a Blind Iraqi Refugee Overcame Enormous Obstacles to Earn a UT Degree

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“Four days,” Qusay Hussein tells me, echoing an experience many in Austin and across the state went through in mid-February when an overloaded electricity...

 
 

David Heska Wanbli Weiden Sets a Mystery on the Reservation in ‘Winter Counts’

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With his debut novel, Winter Counts, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, PhD ’07, became one of just a handful of Native American writers ever nominated for an Edgar...

 
 
A Year Into the Pandemic, Checking in With the People Who Keep Campus Running

A Year Into the Pandemic, Checking in With the People Who Keep Campus Running

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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...

 
 

The Massive Lone Star Flag Unfurled Before UT Football Games is a Tradition That Goes Back Generations

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The people who care about flags, that is, the kinds of people who might style themselves with the Latin-inspired term vexillologist (one who studies flags),...

 
 

New UT Research Could Help Turn Inhospitable Soil into Fertile Ground

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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...

 
 

Thirty years after “Friday Night Lights,” Robert Clark takes us back to the world of the Permian Panthers

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Don Billingsley prepares for a game. When I answer the phone to speak with photographer Robert Clark, the Kansas native is calling from his car as he makes the...

 
 

UT Students and Faculty Find New Ways to Feel Connected During the Pandemic

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One afternoon in August, just a few days before the fall semester was set to begin, my roommate let out a long sigh. She was gearing up for her first year of...

 
 

TxExplainer: What the 2021 Texas Legislative Session Has in Store for UT Austin

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AS the U.S.—and the world—continues to adapt to unprecedented times, so must the Texas Legislature. From the upcoming topics of discussion to how lawmakers...

 
 
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