May | June 2021
Four Summer Reads from Longhorn Authors
By Alcalde Staff
With One Hand Tied Behind My Brain A Memoir of Life After Stroke by Avrel Seale, BS ’89, Life Member Seale learns that wasting time is wasting life...
Letter From the Executive Director: A Shot in the Arm
By Sofia Sokolove
It occurs to me that you’ve now had a full year of Alcalde letters from me that muse about “the new normal” and the changes in every aspect of our lives—the...
How Longhorns Came Together During a Hundred-Year Storm
By Abby Carney
Almost a week after Winter Storm Uri devastated Texas, a long line of hungry, thirsty students snaked around the University Co-op parking lot. It was 9:45 a.m....
How February’s Once-in-a-Generation Storm Altered Life on Campus and Across the City
By Chris O'Connell
Sunday, February 14, 2021 As lovebirds hunker down together to celebrate Valentine’s Day with what looks to be a romantic evening snowfall, rumors swirl...
UT Researchers On What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs
By Abby Carney
In 2016, Sean Gulick and a team of researchers extracted asteroid dust from sections of dark brown, silty claystone and greyish-green marlstone buried beneath...
How a Blind Iraqi Refugee Overcame Enormous Obstacles to Earn a UT Degree
By Chris O'Connell
“Four days,” Qusay Hussein tells me, echoing an experience many in Austin and across the state went through in mid-February when an overloaded electricity...
A Longhorn Astrophysicist Looks to the Stars
By Steve Neumann
Austin native Sarafina El-Badry Nance has been enamored with the night sky since she was a child. She would stargaze with her dad on most nights and listen...
The Hispanic Alumni Network Is a Home-Away-From-Home for Texas Exes
By Danielle Lopez
A few hundred people sat in the banquet room inside UT’s School of Law. The space was decorated in the vivid reds, blues, greens, pinks, and oranges...
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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