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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...
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Texas Forever
By Alcalde Staff
UT President Jay Hartzell and Texas Exes Executive Director and CEO Chuck Harris on the Tower steps at the fall 2022 Ring Celebration. After college, we leave...
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This Longhorn Has Sky-High Dreams of an Airship Race Around the World
By George Spencer
Hartsell in the cockpit of a blimp at Livermore Municipal Airport in Livermore, California, July 2, 2022. Imagine this: In the near future, across the world,...
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This High-Flying Former UT Cheerleader Is Giving Back
By Katie Friel
Amy Porter with members of Texas Cheer & Pom. On a warm September day in 2016, Amy Porter put on her Texas cheerleading uniform and headed toward Darrell...
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Take a Look Inside a Visual Record of 19th-Century Texas
By Ron Tyler
The famous American artist and ornithologist John James Audubon visited Texas with his son, John Woodhouse Audubon, in 1837 as he was finishing his majestic The...
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Playing the Long Game
By Jason Cohen
Vick celebrates a winning putt with Fields. “That’s good.” It only took two words for The University of Texas men’s golf team to win the 2022 NCAA Championship....
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This Texas Ex Is Singing His Cowboy Songs in Music City
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How a Former Marine Built UT’s National Championship Weightlifting Team
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Two Award-Winning Professors (and One Hollywood Celebrity) Make Science Cool
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The Way Back: Hoop Dreams
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Good Reads Q&A: This Children’s Book Brings Social-Emotional Learning to Life in Technicolor