Jan | Feb 2013

 

Driving Innovation, Transforming Education

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In today’s ever-changing world, one thing is increasingly clear: The need for innovative engineers has never been greater. Scientists and engineers make up only...

 
 

A New Suit

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To kick off our 128th year, Texas Exes gets an updated look. Less than two years ago, this magazine underwent its first design overhaul in more than a decade. When...

 
 

Top Scholarship Stories of 2012

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The Texas Exes’ scholarships program awards nearly $2 million  annually to more than 600 UT students. Those statistics are impressive, but even more powerful...

 
 

Fishy Business

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UT grad Alan Blake commercialized the world’s first genetically modified pet: a glow-in-the-dark fish. A decade later, the glow hasn’t worn off. Walk into almost...

 
 

A Passage to India

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When 14 Flying Longhorns toured India and Nepal, they discovered a feast for the senses. India is the world’s largest democracy and is among the globe’s fastest-growing...

 
 

Alumni Authors

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Cancer on the Brain: One Man’s Journey of Baseball, Business, and Beating the Odds By William J. Cobb, MA ’84 Lefevers is a Phoenix real-estate entrepreneur,...

 
 

Organ Transplant

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When the late Gerre Hancock, celebrated organist and UT sacred music professor, walked the halls of UT as a student in the ’50s, the College of Fine Arts was...

 
 

Trending Now: An A-List Actor, Facial Fuzz, & More

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Ryan Gosling Put actor Ryan Gosling in a movie and you get a box-office hit. Put him in Gregory Gym and you get full-on fan pandemonium. As of presstime, the star...

 
 

All Downhill From Here

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The hill is steep. Alone on a board that’s almost breaking 30 mph, the skater pushes forward. It feels like carving ice, surfing a wave, or flying.  It’s easy...

 
 

The Way Back: Chin Up!

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Straight spines and ideal physiques led Lavonia Raymond and Ruth Spargo, pictured above, to beat out 18 other finalists in the 1937-38 UT women’s intramural posture...

 
 
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