March | April 2019

How a UT Professor Found the Perfect Juniper Berries for Gin in West Texas

By Pam LeBlanc

Last summer, Molly Cummings stood atop a ladder at the broad waist of a juniper tree in Texas’ Davis Mountains, filling her apron with plump berries collected...

Getting There: How This UT Alumna Became Chief of Houston’s Busiest Emergency Room

By Gretchen Sanders

In 2011, an 18-year-old man nearly died in a motorcycle crash in Houston. Severely bleeding from his abdomen, the teenager looked up from an operating table inside...

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Meet the New Orleans Obituaries Writer Who Has Spent Four Decades Keeping Stories of the Dead Alive

By Chris O'Connell

John Pope, the lanky Louisianan, the recherché raconteur on the river, the slim and sassy scribe, the zany Zelig from the land of Zapp’s, the boisterous bohemian...