March | April 2022

 

A Look at the Biggest Fundraising Campaign in UT’s History

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When you are a new student at The University of Texas, your freshly minted student ID in hand, the sprawling campus is most easily navigated via acronym. On...

 
 

The Way Back: State Assembly

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Alpha Phi Omega members battle the wind as they try to hold on to the Texas flag during the Texas Sesquicentennial celebration on Feb. 28, 1986. In 1986, Texas...

 
 

Letter from the Executive Director: Story Time

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A rendering of a section of the Alumni Center project from the Advent team. Close your eyes and picture yourself walking into the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center....

 
 

The Longhorn Who Brought Us The Oregon Trail Video Game Has Some Unfinished Business

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The 1985 Apple II version of The Oregon Trail, the version for which Longhorn R. Philip Bouchard was the project manager and lead designer. If you attended an...

 
 

The 2021 Class of Outstanding Young Texas Exes Define ‘Success’—And What It Means to Them

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From left, Sujata Ajmera; Lauren Gardner; Virginia A. Cumberbatch; Brian Haley. Olympic athletes Kevin Durant and Cat Osterman. New York Times magazine editor...

 
 

This Longhorn Barbershop Quartet Hasn’t Stopped Singing for 50 Years

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The 40 Acre 4 at the 1976 International Barbershop Contest in San Francisco. Hanging around the UT campus in the 1970s, students were surrounded by sounds of...

 
 

Novelist Sarah Bird’s New Book Goes Back in Time to Dance Marathons and 1930s Galveston

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Novelist Sarah Bird at Austin Central Library in 2018. Growing up, Sarah Bird’s fairy tales weren’t the usual classics. Instead, she was regaled with true-life...

 
 

Researchers at UT’s Dell Medical School Are Using Virtual Reality and Video Games to Help Teens With Epilepsy

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Each year, around 4,000 Americans undergo surgery to treat epileptic seizures. The procedure typically involves excising a small portion of the patient’s...

 
 
A Photojournalist’s Star-Studded Archive Spanning 40 Years Lands at the Briscoe Center

A Photojournalist’s Star-Studded Archive Spanning 40 Years Lands at the Briscoe Center

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President George H.W. Bush and photojournalist Christopher Little at the White House in 1989. Standing in George H.W. Bush’s bedroom at his summer home in...

 
 

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How Did Spoon Become One of the Most Enduring Indie-Rock Bands? It All Started at The University of Texas.

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The current lineup of Spoon on Austin’s Sixth Street, from left, Ben Trokan, Gerardo Larrios, Alex Fischel (obscured), Britt Daniel, Jim Eno. “On the Radio,” the...

 
 
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