July | August 2020

 

UT Students Connect Seniors with Virtual Pen Pals During COVID-19

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Traveling by Train Through Southern Africa as the World Shut Down

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Siete Family Foods Is Reimagining Mexican-American Cuisine

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A health problem led one Mexican-American family to get creative with the food on their table—and take an entire industry by storm. Chatting on live television...

 
 

Back to School: Reimagining the World of Fashion From Home

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On the day I sit in on Eve Nicols’ “Aesthetics: Theory & Practice” textiles and apparel course, the professor of instruction is waxing poetic about fabric,...

 
 

How the Daytripper Became the King of the Road

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Chet Garner is easy to track down these days. Pre-pandemic, the host and creator of the PBS show The Daytripper could usually be found, well, day tripping around...

 
 

Honoring the 2020 Texas Excellence Awards Winners

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Though we couldn’t welcome these recipients onstage this year, we are celebrating them in the Alcalde with a portrait and kind words from faculty and students.

 
 

The Way Back: Temperature Rising

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By 1918, the Forty Acres had been turned into a quasi-military installation as World War I raged on. But that was the least of students’ worries; the so-called...

 
 

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From a Distance: The Story of UT’s 2020 Spring Semester

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On Wednesday, March 11, Conner Vanden Hoek, BA ’20, sat down to take his speech writing midterm. Before the then-government senior could begin, his professor,...

 
 

In the Fight: How UT Researchers Have Been Working Tirelessly to Defeat COVID-19

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At UT’s Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), 448,448 processing cores of the world’s fifth-largest supercomputer, Frontera, transmit signals back and forth,...

 
 

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Loving the One You’re Quarantined With

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An alumna ponders her new socially distant life. My husband, James Pennebaker, PhD ’77, is an academic psychologist and researcher at UT Austin who studies emotional...

 
 
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