Texas Connect

In her 23 years teaching finance at the University of Texas, Heidi Toprac has taught more than 35,000 students — and she has a spreadsheet where she’s kept a count…

Usually, as the last light of day melts into the evening, the familiar ivory glow of the Tower illuminates The University of Texas campus. But some nights, the iconic landmark…

On any given day at the Visual Arts Center, the space might be filled with the soft echo of a hammer tapping, a sculpture being measured for suspension or the…

The bustling crowd murmured with excitement as nearly 3,000 K-12 students shuffled into the dimly lit Bass Concert Hall on a Thursday morning in October. For more than two hours,…

Seemingly endless rows stretch along the massive Austin Core Research Center of the Bureau of Economic Geology. Lorena Moscardelli walks through the corridors, gesturing to various artifacts stacked in carefully…

Works from artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence and Joan Mitchell come together at the Blanton Museum of Art for the exhibition “American Modernism from the Charles…

Staff members in the Division of Student Affairs help students find connection and community across the University, and their work has effects far beyond the Forty Acres. Research published in…

Pages of dwindling brown imposed with black and white imagery revolve on a screen in the Harry Ransom Center: ink lungs blossoming with air, arms outstretched in perennial movement and…

As you look up into the almost pitch-black sky over West Texas on the clearest of nights, nothing stands between you and the stars glimmering brightly overhead. The sparkling sky…

What does it mean for someone to be a Longhorn? Can it be defined by the clothes they wear or how many football games they’ve been to? Are you a…

On a quiet street tucked away in Austin, the lawn outside Susanna Sharpe’s home comes alive with the tuning of instruments and the chatter of neighbors settling in with fold-up…