March | April 2021

 

The Longhorns in Your Neighborhood: A Program Started on the Basketball Courts of East Austin 30 Years Ago is Still Going Strong

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In 1991, Howard Nirken caught the attention of the Texas Exes. As a President’s Leadership Award finalist, the gregarious undergrad was being interviewed...

 
 
A Year Into the Pandemic, Checking in With the People Who Keep Campus Running

A Year Into the Pandemic, Checking in With the People Who Keep Campus Running

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Nearly a year after students left the Forty Acres for spring break 2020, campus is still far emptier than usual, with many of UT’s faculty, staff, and even students...

 
 

Letter from the Executive Director: Play on

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So much of our identity as Austinites comes from the city’s famously vibrant live music scene. And Longhorns have always been especially proud to attend college...

 
 

The Massive Lone Star Flag Unfurled Before UT Football Games is a Tradition That Goes Back Generations

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The people who care about flags, that is, the kinds of people who might style themselves with the Latin-inspired term vexillologist (one who studies flags),...

 
 

New UT Research Could Help Turn Inhospitable Soil into Fertile Ground

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Around May of last year, after a few months of working (and doing just about everything else) from home, I decided to turn my concrete balcony into something...

 
 

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How UT Research Led to the Development of the COVID-19 Vaccine in Record-Breaking Time

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Jason McLellan in his lab on January 18, 2021. Credit: Matt Wright-Steel On January 6, 2020, Jason McLellan and his wife, Jinelle, were in Park City, Utah, for...

 
 

Thirty years after “Friday Night Lights,” Robert Clark takes us back to the world of the Permian Panthers

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Don Billingsley prepares for a game. When I answer the phone to speak with photographer Robert Clark, the Kansas native is calling from his car as he makes the...

 
 

The Complete Story of the UT Women’s Cross Country Team

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An exhausted Sandy Blakeslee after running in the 1985 Southwest Conference Championships. One Sunday this past December, Texas women’s cross country assistant...

 
 

A Texas Law Graduate’s Quest to Uncover the Story of the State’s First Black Attorney

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A few years ago, I found myself at the Texas Supreme Court building looking for information about the first Black attorney in Texas history. As I toiled away...

 
 

Three Longhorns in the Music Business Share How They Have Fared During COVID-19

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Back in early March 2020, which feels like 100 years ago, the thriving Austin music industry felt the rumblings of a catastrophic event: the cancellation of South...

 
 
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