Honoring the 2020 Texas Excellence Awards Winners

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Though we couldn’t welcome these recipients onstage this year, we are celebrating them in the Alcalde with a portrait and kind words from faculty and students.

 
 

The Way Back: Temperature Rising

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By 1918, the Forty Acres had been turned into a quasi-military installation as World War I raged on. But that was the least of students’ worries; the so-called...

 
 

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From a Distance: The Story of UT’s 2020 Spring Semester

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On Wednesday, March 11, Conner Vanden Hoek, BA ’20, sat down to take his speech writing midterm. Before the then-government senior could begin, his professor,...

 
 

In the Fight: How UT Researchers Have Been Working Tirelessly to Defeat COVID-19

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At UT’s Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), 448,448 processing cores of the world’s fifth-largest supercomputer, Frontera, transmit signals back and forth,...

 
 

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Loving the One You’re Quarantined With

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An alumna ponders her new socially distant life. My husband, James Pennebaker, PhD ’77, is an academic psychologist and researcher at UT Austin who studies emotional...

 
 

Robert Devens on Taking the Helm at UT Press

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Robert Devens has an important first hire to make—and he’ll likely have to do it over some form of video chat. “We’re going to be doing it all remotely...

 
 

Longhorn Cat Osterman Came Out of Retirement for the 2020 Olympics. Then the Pandemic Hit.

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In 2015, UT softball alumna Cat Osterman, BA ’07, Life Member, retired from professional play to focus primarily on her assistant coaching job at Texas State....

 
 

Letter From the Executive Director: If You Build It

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When the purpose of the organization you run is to bring people together, a global pandemic and the advent of social distancing makes you question everything. For...

 
 
 
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