May | June 2023
The Cohen New Works Festival Offers Students the Opportunity to Experiment With Their Art
By Emma Balter
Dope Fit! from the 2019 Cohen New Works Festival. Professor Kirk Lynn, head of the playwriting program at The University of Texas at Austin, often tells fellow...
A New Book Aims to Demystify Fertility and Its Industry
By Katey Psencik Outka
She worked as an art director at several top marketing firms. She’s an advisor to various early-stage startups. She helped launch a health startup accelerator...
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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...
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A Longhorn Looks Back on Four Years That Changed the World—and Her Life—Forever
By Eliza Pillsbury
One of the few Halloweens I remember from my childhood in Houston is tinged in orange and white—not from candy corn, but from our UT-themed family costume....
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Paul Begala’s Letters from Egypt
By Paul Begala
After COVID confinement had limited her travel pretty much to the mailbox, my wife, Diane Friday Begala, BA ’82, MBA, MPAff ’85, Life Member, thought the...
Longhorn Jane Hervey Amplifying Creatives Through Nonprofit Future Front Texas
By Ava Motes
Jane Hervey at Future Front’s headquarters in East Austin. When Jane Hervey, BJ ’14, started writing for ORANGE Magazine as a UT undergrad, she realized...
God’s Country
By David Hillis
An excerpt from Armadillos to Ziziphus, a new book of essays from the director of the Biodiversity Center at UT’s College of Natural Sciences. Sunrise near...
The Way Back: Music Maker
By Abigail Rosenthal
Teaching violin allowed Cloteal Davis Haynes to share her love of music, 1973. You may have heard the name Cloteal Davis Haynes, BM ’72, MPAff ’77. She has...
Letter From the Executive Director: #UTatSXSW
By Chuck Harris
From left, Texas Exes President-elect Gay Gaddis, Banger’s Owner Ben Siegel, UT President Jay Hartzell, Chuck Harris. South by Southwest, the conference...
Finding Lady Bird
By Jade Emerson
Lady Bird Johnson in the bluebonnets at the Wildflower Center. On an early summer evening in 2022, the world around me hummed with sound: the gentle roar of...