Clint Dawson isn’t exactly a thrill-seeker. The soft-spoken engineer has never lived through a hurricane and says the only way he’d agree to see one firsthand...
The past 10 years have seen higher education catapult to the top of the legislative agenda. This year, everything’s on the table.
The Texas Legislature is back...
Sen. Kel Seliger (R-Amarillo) is the chair of the Texas Senate Committee on Higher Education.
What’s your top priority for the 83rd Legislature?
The priority for...
It’s a classic success story, and it never gets old. An innovator nurtures a great idea from humble beginnings into a multinational company with a positive impact...
Oscar acceptance speeches are sometimes amusing, occasionally tearful, and usually rote as each recipient thanks her producer, manicurist, and second cousins. If...
The dusk settled in on UT’s LBJ Library Plaza one evening in November—but it didn’t get dark.
Instead, the night was illuminated by LED light-adorned student...
In 1958, during the height of the Cold War, University of Texas Provost Harry Ransom wrote of a “counterfrontier” that challenged the stereotypical image...
At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a group of UT-educated scientists known as the “Texas mafia” is using robots to explore a new frontier.
Two and a half...
Readers were struck by the excerpt from Pulitzer Prize-winning Longhorn Karen Elliott House’s new book, On Saudi Arabia.
Gordon Novak, BS ’69, MA ’71, PhD...
Legendary former head football coach Darrell K Royal, who died in November at age 88, left a lasting impression on everyone he met. The Alcalde asked fans, alumni,...
