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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,...
Texas Athletics Brings Home the Directors’ Cup—Again
By Alan Cundy
Alongside the 2022 Directors’ Cup is Chris Plonsky, Texas Athletics chief of staff and executive senior associate athletics director. Led by a new class...
20 Years of Tailgating
By Janelle Sosa
Friends Stavinoha, Burch, Holloway, and Smith purchased their burnt-orange Volkswagen in 2006; The tailgate across the pond in 2001. “Come early, be loud,...
A Wilder World
By Abby Carney
Author Millie Kerr has had a love for nature and wildlife since she was a child spending time on her grandparents’ ranch, a home to scimitar-horned oryx,...
Discover New Fall Reads From the Longhorn Universe
By Alcalde Staff
BORN TO SHINE Do Good, Find Your Joy, and Build a Life You Love by Kendra Scott A familiar name in Austin and in jewelry stores around...
A New Program Is Filling Dell Seton Medical Center’s Halls With a Joyful Sound
By Abigail Rosenthal
The inaugural performance of the Red River Ensemble on May 11, 2022, in the hospital’s atrium. Even in Austin, the so-called live music capital of the world...