One of America’s Greatest Living Artists Pops Up at UT
By Katie Friel
“Pool #2,” from the Portfolio Pools, 968; printed 1997. © Ed Ruscha It’s hard to overstate the influence Edward Ruscha has had on contemporary American...
UT en México: A Growing UT Presence Nearly 1,000 Miles South of the Forty Acres
By Sofia Sokolove
On an unusually warm June Saturday afternoon in Mexico City at the base of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Santa Fe Campus, a gaggle...
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...
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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