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How UT’s Sustainability Infrastructure Reduced Waste in a Time of Crisis

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It’s early on a Sunday morning last October and the parking lot outside Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium is unusually empty. The night...

 
 

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Renowned Texas Newsman Neal Spelce Remembers Getting His Start in the Television Business

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In an excerpt of the Longhorn’s forthcoming memoir, With the Bark Off,  renowned Texas newsman Neal Spelce remembers getting his start in the television...

 
 

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Six UT Professors Envision how the Global Pandemic Will Transform their Industries Forever

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Life will never be the same after COVID-19. We know this instinctively, and we know this from history books. There’s the intangible, collective grief...

 
 

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How UT Research Led to the Development of the COVID-19 Vaccine in Record-Breaking Time

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Jason McLellan in his lab on January 18, 2021. Credit: Matt Wright-Steel On January 6, 2020, Jason McLellan and his wife, Jinelle, were in Park City, Utah, for...

 
 

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Our 2020 Outstanding Young Texas Exes on How They Got Here—and What’s Next

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These four Longhorns have achieved big success before even turning 40. Initiated in 1979, the Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award recognizes Texas Exes age 39 and...

 
 

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Two Longhorns Lead the Charge on Reopening the Rothko Chapel

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Walking through the lawn that separates the Menil Collection and its park to the east from the Rothko Chapel in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood, I am not...

 
 

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An Oral History of the Texas Blazers

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In the spring of 1994, then-sophomores Paul Massingill and Robert Bleker were walking back to their dorms after a Student Leadership board meeting. It was...

 
 

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How a ‘Cactus’ Yearbook Helped One Longhorn Escape War-Torn Saigon

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It has been an emotional Tuesday morning for Dean Hien Nguyen, MS ’73. The 90-year-old retired electrical engineer and I are speaking over FaceTime,...

 
 

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A Look at Some of Longhorn David Lake’s Most Stunning Architectural Designs

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In 1971, the same year David Lake arrived on the Forty Acres, the very first Schlotzsky’s opened amid a row of small, shuttered storefronts on South Congress...

 
 

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Can Public Schools Overcome the Pandemic?

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UT’s College of Education has a few ideas. When Alexandria Smith, MEd ’17, learned in late March that she wouldn’t return to her English classroom...

 
 
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