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Looking Back at Texas Football’s Biggest Moments in the Big 12
By Jason Cohen
Justin Tucker celebrates after winning what was thought to be Texas’ final game against Texas A&M, 2011. “S-E-C! S-E-C!” It’s...
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The Tower’s Beloved History and Renewed Future
By Avrel Seale
The Main Building under construction, 1935. Most days, UT President Jay Hartzell approaches his office in the Main Building from the north. There, on the lower...
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A Longhorn Is Developing Therapeutics to Extend Lifespans—Starting With Man’s Best Friend
By David Silverberg
Celine Halioua and four of her friends. When Celine Halioua was just 18 years old, she spent the summer before her first year at UT as an intern at a neuro-oncology...
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The Blanton Museum of Art Debuts Its Stunning New Entrance and Grounds to Austin—and the World
By Abigail Rosenthal
When it first opened on campus in 2006, the Blanton Museum of Art was tucked away like a secret. It had one entrance, which directly faced its companion building...
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On Some of Texas’ Tallest Peaks, Star Parties Attract Visitors From All Over the Planet
By Alan Cundy
Hundreds of miles into the desert, atop the highest point on the Texas state highway system, this remote university research center is not an obvious destination....
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Introducing the 2023 Texas 10
By Alcalde Staff
There are myriad things that make a student’s time at UT so memorable. But for nearly every Longhorn, there’s often one thing at the center of it all: an educator...
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A Longhorn Looks Back on Four Years That Changed the World—and Her Life—Forever
By Eliza Pillsbury
One of the few Halloweens I remember from my childhood in Houston is tinged in orange and white—not from candy corn, but from our UT-themed family costume....
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Paul Begala’s Letters from Egypt
By Paul Begala
After COVID confinement had limited her travel pretty much to the mailbox, my wife, Diane Friday Begala, BA ’82, MBA, MPAff ’85, Life Member, thought the...
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The Long Road
By Daniel Oberhaus
Mia Carter was on vacation in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains when she started to feel like she was dying. It was late in the summer of 2020 and for months,...
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The Shop Around the Corner
By Abigail Rosenthal
When Foxtrot founders and friends Taylor Bloom and Mike LaVitola were dreaming up their new upscale corner store in Chicago, they knew they had to offer one...