Remembering those lost on UT’s darkest day
On Aug. 1, 1966, a troubled young University of Texas student committed one of the most horrific acts of public violence...
For more than a century, the Plant Resources Center has been building one of the best collections on campus. These days, it’s a world-renowned research destination...
Commencement 2015 was supposed to be many things. The featured speaker was to be the president of the Ford Foundation, Darren Walker, BS, BA ’82, JD ’86,...
A Longhorn does college all over again.
I have my UT fantasies. Skinny dipping in the Turtle Pond, tattooing my face on Bevo’s underbelly, trapping and eating...
Sydney Rubenstein visited campus to see her first UT football game, the Horns’ 2014 season opener against the University of North Texas. Her proud parents are...
In the grand tradition of UT Towers made of cake and ice, we now have a mini Tower that was built to last.
Late one night in February, Drew Finkel, BA ’08, was...
Editor’s Note: UT has issued a statement on the bluebonnet chronicles, indicating that the university has no official plans to remove the maroon bluebonnet...
The Texas bluebonnet used to mean Texas pride, but on the UT-Austin campus, it now means war. Maroon bluebonnets have sprung up on the Forty Acres—and some think...
On a hot August day in 1966, Charles Whitman carried a footlocker full of guns and ammunition to the top of the UT Tower and started firing. The incident changed...
Many a sports fan hopes the UT Tower will glow orange after a game on the football field. But last night, the Tower was lit for another kind of win: A student team...
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