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Q&A: A New Novel Tells the Story of Hurricane Ike
By Katey Psencik Outka
Texas is vast, diverse, and complicated. It can be nearly impossible to describe to people who don’t live here, who didn’t grow up in and around the nuances...
New Year, New Reads From the Longhorn Universe
By Alcalde Staff
THE ROAD TO TEXAS Incredible Twists and Improbable Turns Along the Longhorns Recruiting Trail BY MIKE ROACH The...
100 Years Young, Big Bertha Is Finally Retired
By Alan Cundy
Big Bertha at the Texas vs. Louisiana-Lafayette game, 2021. The world’s most famous one-note instrument, the iconic Big Bertha, has played her final tune....
UT Invests in Giant Telescope to Take Us Back in Time
By Daniel Oberhaus
The Giant Magellan Telescope’s primary mirror segment six at the University of Arizona Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab. About 4,500 miles south of the Forty...
Happy Campers
By Jonathan Sherchand
After pandemic delays and a virtual interlude, Camp Texas was finally back in full force this summer in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. Here’s one counselor’s...
Holiday Reads From the Longhorn Universe
By Alcalde Staff
AT THE TABLE WITH LBJ AND LADY BIRD History, Humor, and True Texas Recipes BY JEAN E. SCHULER, BFA ’82 After years of...
Research Initiative Planet Texas 2050 Uses Art to Tell Story of Climate Change
By Abigail Rosenthal
The 2022 research symposium featured three dance performances. In 2018, researchers at The University of Texas decided to take a hard look at an important milestone....
Q&A: Journalism Professor Kate Dawson Is Truly a True Crime Historian
By Katey Psencik Outka
If you haven’t heard Kate Winkler Dawson’s voice before, you probably will soon. Maybe you listened to the audiobook version of her most recent book,...
The Wildflower Center Is Planting a Field of Light
By Abigail Rosenthal
There’s plenty to see sprawled across the fields of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center nearly year round: pollinators flitting about native wildflowers,...
From the Desk of Ellsworth Kelly
By Courtney Runn
Ellsworth Kelly, “Study for Blue and White Sculpture for Les Tuileries,” 1964, postcard collage. Ellsworth Kelly’s only freestanding building, Austin,...