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UT’s Trash Becomes Treasure at the Surplus REuse Store
By Ava Motes
When Bibi Macias, a senior Economics and Sustainability Studies major, walks into her internship, she is greeted by a headless wrestler mannequin, fittingly...
Q&A: Children’s Book Author on Getting Lost and Finding Your Way Back
By Katey Psencik Outka
Nikki Loftin, author of If You Get Lost. Nikki Loftin knew she wanted to be a writer since she was 9 years old, so she chased that dream in the graduate program...
The Tower Is the Backdrop to Longhorns’ Favorite Memories
By Alcalde Staff
Driving into Austin, the city appears slowly, then all at once. But in between all the shiny new high rises and skyscrapers, the UT Tower still stands as recognizable...
Texas Performing Arts Partners With Fusebox to Advance Austin’s Avant-Garde
By Amanda O'Donnell
A still from Geoff Sobelle’s FOOD, an upcoming production copresented by Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox. Now the 10th largest city in the United States,...
UT Researchers Use AI to Translate Thoughts Into Text
By Daniel Oberhaus
Imagine a world where humans can express their thoughts to computers directly—no keyboard required. It sounds like a scenario ripped straight from science...
As Pickleball Rises in Popularity, One Longhorn Is at the Center of It All
By Ava Motes
Shields playing pickleball in Bel Air, California. It was a bright morning in the fall semester of 2022 when MBA student Thomas Shields’ phone buzzed with...
Men’s Basketball Head Coach Rodney Terry Led the Longhorns to Their Best Season in 15 Years and Is Looking Ahead
By Jason Cohen
Rodney at the Texas vs. Rice game, 2023. It was one heck of a birthday present, even if Rodney Terry would have gladly taken it belated. On March 27, the...
Two UT Austin Professors Snag the ‘Nobel Prizes’ of Their Fields
By Alcalde Staff
By Marc Airhart and Nat Levy Winning a Nobel Prize brings unmistakable cachet, but for many of the sciences—essentially anything outside of chemistry,...
LBJ School Unveils the Willie Nelson Endowment for Uplifting Rural Communities
By Katey Psencik Outka
This September will mark 38 years since music legends Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp organized the first-ever Farm Aid concert to raise money...
Q&A: A New Memoir from a Longhorn Astrophysicist Looks Up
By Katey Psencik Outka
Sarafina El-Badry Nance, author of “StarStruck” Sarafina El-Badry Nance has always loved looking up at the stars. It’s one of the first things...