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How the Texas Longhorn Became a Living Legend
By Andrew Logan
Roaming the brushy expanse of the Texas plains, a herd of Texas longhorns graze under the blaring sun, their sprawling horns casting long shadows on the dusty...
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Longhorn Leisure Through the Years
By Eliza Pillsbury
You know how the saying goes: “Work hard, play hard.” Few other schools exemplify this ethos like The University of Texas at Austin. As much as there is to...
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The Flying Longhorns Remember—and Rediscover—Vietnam
By Stephen Harrigan
On our first day in Ho Chi Minh City, the Flying Longhorns inadvertently offended the sensibilities of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. We had assembled for...
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UT Research on Methane Hydrate Could Transform the Energy Landscape
By Monica Kortsha
A team of scientists watch the sunset from the helidock. The middle of the Gulf of Mexico is a busier place than you might think. Its deep, blue waters are dotted...
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The 2024 Texas 10
By Karina Kumar
Since 2011, the Alcalde has asked alumni to submit nominations for the Texas 10 teaching awards, forming a cohort of the most excellent professors at The University...
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UT Prepares for the Total Solar Eclipse
By Robyn Ross
As her husband drove through southeastern Wyoming’s rolling hills, Martinique Pautzke studied an eclipse map on her phone. Then she peered at the truck’s...
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Texas Performing Arts and Broadway Across America Bring the Great White Way to Campus
By Jason Cohen
You never forget your first time. Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway. For Kristen Caskey, BA ’94, who grew up outside of Chicago,...
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The Texas Exes Reaches 100,000 Life Members
By Eliza Pillsbury
It was a warm and slightly humid May morning at the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park just northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, when Erin Peterson was hiking...
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Society Faces Tough Choices About Artificial Intelligence
By Robyn Ross
On a Tuesday night last February, New York Times technology writer Kevin Roose sat down to experiment with an early version of the artificial intelligence (AI)...
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Larry Mayo’s Degree Was a Lifetime in the Making
By Eliza Pillsbury
Surrounded by books in a home nestled among the Piney Woods of Lake Palestine in northeast Texas, a 79-year-old former journalist in failing health was doing...