March | April 2023
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Introducing the 2023 Texas 10
By Alcalde Staff
There are myriad things that make a student’s time at UT so memorable. But for nearly every Longhorn, there’s often one thing at the center of it all: an educator...
How Longhorn Jane Ko Became Austin’s Most Influential Foodie
By Ava Motes
Jane Ko, BS ’13, is a food blogger who made a splash in Austin’s restaurant scene with the launch of her blog, A Taste of Koko, in 2010. Under the moniker...
Meet the 2022 Class of Outstanding Young Texas Exes
By Katey Psencik Outka
Texas Exes CEO and Executive Director Chuck Harris, Board President Courtney Jeans, August, Muething, and Verma at the Oct. 1, 2022, Longhorns football game. The...
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The Long Road
By Daniel Oberhaus
Mia Carter was on vacation in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains when she started to feel like she was dying. It was late in the summer of 2020 and for months,...
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The Shop Around the Corner
By Abigail Rosenthal
When Foxtrot founders and friends Taylor Bloom and Mike LaVitola were dreaming up their new upscale corner store in Chicago, they knew they had to offer one...
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Texas Forever
By Alcalde Staff
UT President Jay Hartzell and Texas Exes Executive Director and CEO Chuck Harris on the Tower steps at the fall 2022 Ring Celebration. After college, we leave...
Letter From the Executive Director: Film School
By Chuck Harris
Long ago, when Ronald Reagan was president and I was a UT senior cruising toward graduation and dreaming of a cushy first job on Wall Street, I hit a bit of...
An Iconic Mural Near Campus Just Got a Well-Deserved Update
By Nathan Han
When Rick Turner, BFA ’72, and Tommy Bauman, BA ’73, were students at UT, their College of Fine Arts professor had never seen airbrush painting before....
Robots Are Roaming the Forty Acres in a New Research Program
By Daniel Oberhaus
For more than a century, robots have played a starring role in our visions of the future. Whether these sci-fi automatons would turn out to be our companions...
This Blanton Museum Exhibit Examines the Long Afterlife of the Medieval Aesthetic
By Courtney Runn
From left, Michelino da Besozzo, “Madonna and Child” (circa 1428–29); Ellsworth Kelly, “Mother and Child” (1949). The Middle Ages ended more...
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Letter from the Executive Director: Busy Season
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Alcalde Photo Editor Takes Italy and Switzerland
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The Life and Legacy of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium at 100 Years
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Program in UT’s College of Pharmacy Provides Cellphones to People Experiencing Homelessness
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UT’s Wind Ensemble Celebrates 50th Anniversary at Carnegie Hall