Every year on an autumn evening, several hundred Longhorns gather to celebrate a group of their most accomplished peers. There are moving video tributes, heartfelt...
In November, six luminaries received UT’s highest honor for alumni: the Distinguished Alumnus Award. After donning the customary burnt-orange blazer, the recipients...
Oscar acceptance speeches are sometimes amusing, occasionally tearful, and usually rote as each recipient thanks her producer, manicurist, and second cousins. If...
Jodie Jiles was the first in his family to graduate from high school. He went on to earn a master’s in accounting at UT and lead the Greater Houston Alliance....
James Huffines always knew that he would be a banker. But he didn’t know that he would be wildly successful at it, as well as at higher education advocacy...
It’s hard to imagine a time when it wasn’t socially accepted to talk about breast cancer or AIDS. But under the leadership of Jane Chesnutt, BJ ’73,...
John Barnhill, BJ ’59, Life Member, landed a journalism major’s dream job right after graduation: he was a reporter at the old Houston Press.
But life...
