Boomerang Days: Spring Breaking Bad

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A Longhorn does college all over again. Spring Break! It’s a time to abandon all sense of responsibility, academic accountability, and make complete asses of...

 
 

Let’s Do Lunch

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A donor and a scholar in conversation On a sunny day at Chuy’s in South Austin, two dear friends swapped stories about UT. In the short time since they met, Janelle...

 
 

Hello From the Dark Side

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How one UT alumnus helped continue some of Einstein’s most ambitious work The morning David Reitze, PhD ’90, vindicated Albert Einstein’s last remaining prediction...

 
 

Island Hopping

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  “There’s a reason people dream of vacationing in the Caribbean—it’s the perfect place to forget your troubles.” This January, the Flying Longhorns...

 
 

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Taking the Bite Out of Zika

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We don’t know everything about the Zika virus—but we may know how to stop it. My wife is the mosquito magnet in our family. We have a running joke about how...

 
 

The Bullhorn: November 1981

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We’ve dug deep into the Alcalde archives to bring you historical campus news. The events described below actually happened.* Center for Metric Conversion ignites...

 
 

Longhorns on Screen

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From Eli Wallach and Farrah Fawcett to Wes Anderson and Matthew McConaughey, Longhorns have a talented ancestry of Hollywood stars and filmmakers. You may have even...

 
 

Independent, Not Alone

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How UT is creating community for foster and independent students Maria Suarez-Magana can handle working two jobs in high school. She can handle being homeless at...

 
 
 
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