In 2012, I arrived on campus as a journalism student from McAllen, Texas. I didn’t come from a family of Longhorns. There was no burnt-orange paraphernalia adorning...
“What was that? I can’t hear you,” is the refrain on a crackling telephone line intermittently cutting out only to have the sound return as an echo. We’re...
The Trials of Apollo, Book Five: The Tower of Nero
By Rick Riordan, BA ’86, Life Member
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians author released the fifth and...
Jenn Shapland, MA ’12, PhD ’16, has always been a snooper. Growing up, she loved sneaking around the houses of people she babysat for, contemplating the secrets...
Orchestral music filled the packed concert hall. The guests were dressed in tails and gowns. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden sat in ornate chairs,...
After reading about the UT Women’s Basketball team’s historic 1,100th win last month, I couldn’t help but dwell on the program’s achievement. What does...
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...
Texas Seafood: A Cookbook and Comprehensive Guide
By PJ Stoops, BA, BA ’99, and Benchalak Srimart Stoops
Readers can set sail across the northwest Gulf of...
As I walk into the Blanton Museum of Art on a cool, fall day, I laugh to think that the experience ahead of me—yes, in an art museum—is the closest I might...
