March | April 2024
West Campus Market Provides Venue and Music Community
By Ava Motes
Midnight Butterfly performing at Friendly Rio Market on Dec. 9, 2023. As dusk falls over West Campus, the concrete walls of a neighborhood corner store thrum...
A Longhorn Family Explores Their New Home Country One State at a Time
By Karina Kumar
From left, Gagandeep, Anhad, and Aman in Grand Teton, Wyoming, 2022. At home, Gagandeep Singh and Aman Sandhu struggle to find an empty spot on their fridge....
Good Reads Q&A: A Documentarian and a Longhorn Explore the Spirituality of Sports
By Eliza Pillsbury
Joe Levin, co-author of Religion of Sports. Joe Levin, BA, BJ ’21, Life Member, likes to say he’s from Los Angeles via Austin. Even before he attended UT...
Engineering Students Work on Project Connect in Professionalism Course
By Karina Kumar
As Austin grows into a major business and technology hub, the city’s infrastructure must also expand. From higher rent prices to new buildings along the skyline,...
The Way Back: Flower Power
By Eliza Pillsbury
Though the fashion in this photo will likely be the first thing you notice, the image of two bohemians tending to campus flora presages a significant conflict...
The Moritz Center Supports Life-Changing Social Work
By Avrel Seale
During the summer of 2021, an 85-year-old man with a shock of white hair and a surfer’s tan lay in his bed in Arlington making his last stand against cancer....
Letter from the Executive Director: Power in Numbers
By Chuck Harris
Life Membership scrolls hanging in the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center. As you can see on the cover, the Texas Exes is rounding the corner on a major milestone. This...
Texas Football’s Rowdiest Season in a Generation
By Alan Cundy
The Undertaker and Quinn Ewers after the 2023 Big 12 Championship game. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Texas Football is back. No, really back this...
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UT Prepares for the Total Solar Eclipse
By Robyn Ross
As her husband drove through southeastern Wyoming’s rolling hills, Martinique Pautzke studied an eclipse map on her phone. Then she peered at the truck’s...
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Texas Performing Arts and Broadway Across America Bring the Great White Way to Campus
By Jason Cohen
You never forget your first time. Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway. For Kristen Caskey, BA ’94, who grew up outside of Chicago,...
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This Texas Ex Is Singing His Cowboy Songs in Music City
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How a Former Marine Built UT’s National Championship Weightlifting Team
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Two Award-Winning Professors (and One Hollywood Celebrity) Make Science Cool
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The Way Back: Hoop Dreams
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Good Reads Q&A: This Children’s Book Brings Social-Emotional Learning to Life in Technicolor