May | June 2023

 
Letter From the Executive Director: #UTatSXSW

Letter From the Executive Director: #UTatSXSW

By

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

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...

 
 

Logan Eggleston Has More In Store After Texas Volleyball

By

Eggleston in a 2022 game against Texas Tech. Logan Eggleston, BBA ’22, Life Member, was already going to be a Longhorn legend prior to her senior year, but...

 
 
This Program Brings Students and Alumni Together Over Dinner

This Program Brings Students and Alumni Together Over Dinner

By

Dinner with 16 Longhorns at Tony and Kristin Schell’s house, Nov. 30, 2022. At first, it seemed like a simple networking opportunity to Bobby Meza, a second-year...

 
 
The Cohen New Works Festival Offers Students the Opportunity to Experiment With Their Art

The Cohen New Works Festival Offers Students the Opportunity to Experiment With Their Art

By

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

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...

 
 

Feature

Introducing the 2023 Texas 10

By

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...

 
 

Feature

A Longhorn Looks Back on Four Years That Changed the World—and Her Life—Forever

By

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....

 
 

Feature

Paul Begala’s Letters from Egypt

By

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

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...

 
 
« Older Entries
 
 
Menu