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Longhorn Mother and Daughter Graduate 10 Years Apart

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After completing her doctorate from the UT Austin School of Nursing, Patricia White, DNP ’20, pictured right, is now officially the proudest Longhorn. White...

 
 

Alumna’s Project Celebrates Centennial of 19th Amendment

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Keliy Anderson-Staley, ‘Daniela’ Meg Griffiths, BA ’04, and co-founder Frances Jakubek created A Yellow Rose Project, a photographic collaboration...

 
 

The Way Back: Mama Duren

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In 1956, the first cohort of Black students, now known as The Precursors, enrolled at UT. While an ostensible sign of progress, the cohort’s experience on...

 
 

Meet the Alumna Solving Conservation Problems at Houston’s Arboretum

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In 2017, Hurricane Harvey swept across the Gulf Coast, leaving much of the city underwater, displacing residents, and causing billions of dollars’ worth of...

 
 

This UT Alumnus Is Building Space Hotels

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At any given time, there are a half dozen humans zipping around the Earth at over 17,000 miles per hour. These are the lucky few chosen to live and work on...

 
 
One of the Last People to Live in an Iron Lung Is a Longhorn

One of the Last People to Live in an Iron Lung Is a Longhorn

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Paul Alexander still remembers the sound of the screen door slamming on that rainy July day in 1952. The then-6-year-old had just run inside after playing...

 
 
Fort Worth and Arlington Texas Exes Chapters Host Student Send-Off

Fort Worth and Arlington Texas Exes Chapters Host Student Send-Off

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Every year, Texas Exes chapters wish incoming Longhorns good luck as they set off for Austin. For many chapters, it looked like this year send-offs were going...

 
 

Longhorn Ordination

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These three Longhorns who are now priests at Community of St. Paul/CSP were all present for the ordination of Father Paolo at St. Austin Catholic Church on Guadalupe...

 
 

Traveling by Train Through Southern Africa as the World Shut Down

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How the Daytripper Became the King of the Road

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Chet Garner is easy to track down these days. Pre-pandemic, the host and creator of the PBS show The Daytripper could usually be found, well, day tripping around...

 
 
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