Sep 29, 2025
UT’s historic preservation planner, Kim Barker, is helping restore the Main Building to its original state
The goal of the Tower restoration now underway is to return the University’s emblematic landmark not to what it was before the rust set in but to its original 1937…
Sep 29, 2025
Texas Science Festival bridges research and community
The sun was just beginning to set over Waller Creek on a warm February day. Dozens of onlookers stood quietly atop the bridges over the reflective, unmoving water. Rosemary Candelario,…
Sep 29, 2025
AI to the rescue? UT research team develops multilingual emergency messaging bot
For Austinites facing future weather disasters, lifesaving information could be provided by artificial intelligence, and according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, you might even trust it…
Sep 29, 2025
Exhibition puts spotlight on Ransom Center’s new collection from creator of ‘Saturday Night Live’
For 50 years, “Saturday Night Live” has provided social commentary, witty comedy and some of the most iconic pop culture moments of its time. Now, after just under two years…
Sep 29, 2025
LAITS staff members work together on and off campus
Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services offers a wide range of assistance and opportunities for technology support, promotional content and educational materials. For Kayla Galang and Will Kurzner, LAITS also helped…
Sep 29, 2025
Psychologist David Yeager explains how adults can best get through to young people
As a kid, David Yeager never really enjoyed school. “I just had this feeling teachers didn’t like me. I felt like I was too energetic and asked a million questions,”…
Mar 24, 2025
Turtle pond serves as living lab for student researchers
From the morning birds and the squirrels roaming in the day to, eventually, the raccoons coming out at night, a variety of animals call The University of Texas at Austin…
Mar 24, 2025
KUT’s ATXplained Live brings local journalism to the stage
In 2016, KUT projects editor Matt Largey started a crowdsourced reporting project called ATXplained with the goal of answering people’s questions about the city. “It was modeled off a project…
Mar 24, 2025
Development director spreads passion for Longhorn fashion on Instagram
EmilyAnne Skinner wore burnt orange every day that she hiked in Sequoia National Park and Yosemite in California last summer. “I saw 20 people in Yosemite that were like, ‘Hook…
Mar 23, 2025
Art professor’s cancer diagnosis as graduate student informs her work with first-year students
In 2009, during her first month of graduate school at the University of South Florida, Megan Hildebrandt was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer that affects the body’s immune system.…
Mar 23, 2025
Artist finds balance in work as printmaker, lecturer and lab manager
Erin Miller’s art often starts with an obsession. In “Lucky Charm Casino,” her exhibition of print-based work showcased last summer at the Galveston Arts Center, she dived into the maximalist…
