40 Acres

 

Finding Lady Bird

Lady Bird Johnson in the bluebonnets at the Wildflower Center. On an early summer evening in 2022, the world around me hummed with sound: the gentle roar of...

 
 

Logan Eggleston Has More In Store After Texas Volleyball

Eggleston in a 2022 game against Texas Tech. Logan Eggleston, BBA ’22, Life Member, was already going to be a Longhorn legend prior to her senior year, but...

 
 

This Program Brings Students and Alumni Together Over Dinner

Dinner with 16 Longhorns at Tony and Kristin Schell’s house, Nov. 30, 2022. At first, it seemed like a simple networking opportunity to Bobby Meza, a second-year...

 
 

The Cohen New Works Festival Offers Students the Opportunity to Experiment With Their Art

Dope Fit! from the 2019 Cohen New Works Festival. Professor Kirk Lynn, head of the playwriting program at The University of Texas at Austin, often tells fellow...

 
 

A New Book Aims to Demystify Fertility and Its Industry

She worked as an art director at several top marketing firms. She’s an advisor to various early-stage startups. She helped launch a health startup accelerator...

 
 

An Iconic Mural Near Campus Just Got a Well-Deserved Update

When Rick Turner, BFA ’72, and Tommy Bauman, BA ’73, were students at UT, their College of Fine Arts professor had never seen airbrush painting before....

 
 

Robots Are Roaming the Forty Acres in a New Research Program

For more than a century, robots have played a starring role in our visions of the future. Whether these sci-fi automatons would turn out to be our companions...

 
 

This Blanton Museum Exhibit Examines the Long Afterlife of the Medieval Aesthetic

From left, Michelino da Besozzo, “Madonna and Child” (circa 1428–29); Ellsworth Kelly, “Mother and Child” (1949). The Middle Ages ended more...

 
 

A UT English Course Reveals Memories of Alfred Hitchcock’s Works Across Generations

“What do you remember about Alfred Hitchcock?” That’s the question my students asked their older relatives over Thanksgiving as part of English 310S:...

 
 

Good Reads Q&A: Firsthand Experience

Brianna Holt never thought her first book would be a memoir, and especially not at only 25 years old. But after the summer of 2020, when Holt, BJ, BS ’16,...

 
 
 
 
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