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Sanctuary
By Emily Rapp
Finding home and happiness where I least expected “Do you need help?” Kent called. I stood in the basement of our home—St. Anne’s Catholic Church, built...
January|February 2016 Alumni Authors
By Alcalde Staff
The End by John Crawley, BA ’73, Life Member Teacher Lucy Brooks is diagnosed with a painful, aggressive strain of terminal cancer before falling into a coma....
January|February 2016 Good Reads
By Alcalde Staff
New books of interest to the Longhorn Universe Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart, BA ’90, MS ’92 Born in Brooklyn in 1878, Constance Kopp stood out in a crowd...
The Way Back: Mr. Frank and Me
By Ben Wright
Many Texas Exes pine for the Forty Acres, but Allen Reid Robertson, BJ ’52, Life Member, had more reason than most. The 21-year-old’s studies were interrupted...
Boomerang Days: Final Fantasy
By Owen Egerton
A Longhorn does college all over again. I’ve been returning to the UT campus for over a year now. I’ve explored the dorms, worked out in Gregory Gym, and strolled...
Life of Bronwyn
By Dorothy Guerrero
Talking to a multifaceted Forty Acres Scholar At the University of Texas at Austin, there are artists who stare at the horizon, researchers who never leave the...
Late to the Game: The Prank Job
By Chris O'Connell
In late October, some juvenile delinquent—possibly a real-life Bart Simpson—tagged the Alumni Center with the call letters of a certain East-Central Texas agricultural...
In the Loop
By Chris O'Connell
A crackerjack team of UT students is competing to change the way we travel. Imagine commuting from Los Angeles to San Francisco and back in one night after attending...
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This Texas Ex Is Singing His Cowboy Songs in Music City
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How a Former Marine Built UT’s National Championship Weightlifting Team
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Two Award-Winning Professors (and One Hollywood Celebrity) Make Science Cool
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The Way Back: Hoop Dreams
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Good Reads Q&A: This Children’s Book Brings Social-Emotional Learning to Life in Technicolor