Creator of UT’s Famous ‘Beyoncé Class’ Combines Memoir and Study in New Book

By Marisa Charpentier

In one of the closing scenes of Beyoncé’s “Formation” music video, the final segment of her 2016 viral visual album Lemonade, she stands in front of the...

UT Professor Explains How Language Shapes Our Thoughts

By Art Markman

Maybe you haven’t spent that much time thinking about it, but it is a weird facet of the human experience that a collection of sounds you make by blowing air...

Longhorn Brené Brown Is Leading a Self-Help Revolution

By Lauren Smith Ford

Best-selling author and social scientist Brené Brown is a self-described authentic mess—and her fans love her for it. As she stood backstage waiting to kick...

Four Books From the Longhorn Universe to Kick Off Fall 2018

By Marisa Charpentier

Never Lost Again by Bill Kilday, BA ’90, MPA, MBA ’94 These days avoiding traffic jams and getting from Point A to Point B is as easy as plugging in information...

UT Austin Astronomers Are Recreating the Cosmos on Earth

By Danielle Lopez

It’s a seemingly average day in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The sun is blazing, the mountains loom in the distance, and the people in the rows of neighborhoods go...

September | October Alumni Authors

By Rachel Cooper

Sammie & Budgie By Scott Semegran, BA ’93 Simon Burchwood has always known that his young son Sammie is special—most recently after discovering the boy...

A UT Alumna Is Houston’s Teacher of the Year in Just Her Second Year in the Classroom

By Rachel Cooper

People don’t often look back on middle school longingly. But ask Alejandra Ortega, BS ’15, and she’ll tell you those hormonal years provided some of her fondest...

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The Complete Story of DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium

By Chris O'Connell

The first time the stadium felt special to me—this should be obvious, but for transparency’s sake, I mean Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, otherwise...