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The Way Back: A Curious Classroom

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Students lounge in the College of Business Administration’s experimental classroom, 1971. Long before the pandemic forced students to find alternative classrooms...

 
 
Letter From the Executive Director: Made in Longhorn Nation

Letter From the Executive Director: Made in Longhorn Nation

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This is often how my life goes as the guy who runs the Texas Exes … Me: “Dang, that’s good whiskey.” Friend: “You know the owner went to UT?” Or...

 
 

Research Initiative Planet Texas 2050 Uses Art to Tell Story of Climate Change

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The 2022 research symposium featured three dance performances. In 2018, researchers at The University of Texas decided to take a hard look at an important milestone....

 
 

Match.com Founder, Longhorn Is on a Mission to Improve Education Access

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Peng Ong at the Monk’s Hill offices in Singapore. Peng Ong still remembers the first time he got to explore a computer. He was around 13 years old, well before...

 
 

Q&A: Journalism Professor Kate Dawson Is Truly a True Crime Historian

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If you haven’t heard Kate Winkler Dawson’s voice before, you probably will soon. Maybe you listened to the audiobook version of her most recent book,...

 
 

This Longhorn Racer Isn’t Stopping Anytime Soon

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Whilden, 87, has been running since his days at UT—and he’s not stopping yet. Sprinting off the block on May 22, 2022, Longhorn Bobby Whilden raced down...

 
 

100 Years Young, Big Bertha Is Finally Retired

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Big Bertha at the Texas vs. Louisiana-Lafayette game, 2021. The world’s most famous one-note instrument, the iconic Big Bertha, has played her final tune....

 
 

UT Invests in Giant Telescope to Take Us Back in Time

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The Giant Magellan Telescope’s primary mirror segment six at the University of Arizona Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab.  About 4,500 miles south of the Forty...

 
 

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Playing the Long Game

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Vick celebrates a winning putt with Fields. “That’s good.” It only took two words for The University of Texas men’s golf team to win the 2022 NCAA Championship....

 
 
Happy Campers

Happy Campers

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After pandemic delays and a virtual interlude, Camp Texas was finally back in full force this summer in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. Here’s one counselor’s...

 
 
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