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As students close their computers after a long night of studying or wander home from Sixth Street, Georgia Wooten is waking up to her 2 a.m. alarm, getting ready to…

On the fifth floor of Painter Hall, students involved with the UT Wine Initiative use sensing methods that mimic human tongue receptors to detect and classify wine samples. It’s just…

“Friends, Romans, country people,” Clayton Stromberger calls out to a class of ready-to-learn fifth graders. “Lend me your ears,” they shout back in unison. The Shakespeare at Winedale Outreach program…

Step, drill, repeat. It’s a beautiful, sunny morning on the Forty Acres. The Texas flag waves proudly as two landscapers rake through fresh soil, preparing it for hundreds of bright…

The Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports was founded in 2009 and seeks to preserve and share materials related to the history of sports, physical culture and other aspects…

It’s a scorching morning in June, and the line of cars carrying soon-to-be Longhorns and their anxious parents is growing by the minute. Jester Center begins to fill as volunteers…

Every gift to The University of Texas at Austin begins with a belief: what starts here changes the world. That shared belief fueled the What Starts Here campaign — an…

For an hour on certain afternoons, melodic notes ring out from the fifth-floor atrium of the Norman Hackerman Building. Mark Bernat, founder of Musical Memories, began hosting the event on…

It all started with Adam Driver and a dream. Michelle Harris always wanted to be a writer but hadn’t gotten her big break. In August 2024, she and a group…

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…