May | June 2020

 

A World Away: Traversing Peru as the World Braced for Change

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When Alcalde staff photographer Matt Wright-Steel set out for Peru in early March, the Flying Longhorns host was ready to experience the beauty and wonder of South...

 
 

This Austinite Voted Dell Med into Existence—Now She’s One of the School’s First Graduates

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Eight years ago, Travis County residents had a decision to make: did they want a medical school badly enough they were willing to pay higher property taxes to fund...

 
 

Five New Books From Longhorn Nation to Read During Social Distancing

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Good Citizens Need Not Fear By Maria Reva, MFA ’18  When a bureaucratic glitch omits an entire building and its residents from municipal records, tenants of 1933...

 
 

Turning Glass into Tools at UT Austin’s Glass Shop

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Adam Kennedy is one of a few university glass blowers left.

 
 

Touring the New UT Admissions Welcome Center

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I am cutting it close on time, and for once I can’t blame it on Austin traffic. Alex Mitchell, deputy to the executive director of the UT Office of Admissions...

 
 

How Longhorn Drew Blackard Became a Leader in Mobile Technology

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One third of the passengers on any commercial flight are likely using smart phones that Drew Blackard, MBA ’06, helped produce. As vice president of product management...

 
 

Introducing the 2020 Texas Ten

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Every year, the Alcalde flips the script and gives alumni the chance to give their favorite professors an A+.

 
 

The Way Back: Campus in Miniature

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Each edition of UT’s Cactus yearbook has its own look and feel as the editors navigate a delicate balance: distinguishing it from its predecessors but also maintaining...

 
 

UT English Professor Deb Olin Unferth Hatches an Inventive Chicken Heist in Her Latest Novel

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Picture this: A couple of egg industry auditors sneak onto a farm in the dead of night to steal a million chickens. It didn’t happen—but it could, says Deb...

 
 

Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection Celebrates 100 Years at UT

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Sitting at a table at Sid Richardson Hall on campus, I lean over and try to look as closely as possible to a hundreds-of-years-old document while also trying not...

 
 
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