Texas Connect

When it comes to special occasions, everything is bigger in Texas. The University of Texas at Austin Events & Experience team plans more than 200 events annually, including fall’s Gone…

As the world continues to reckon with the future of artificial intelligence, researchers and educators at The University of Texas at Austin are exploring the possibilities for the technology. Recently,…

The latest exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art puts the focus on Native American and First Nations artists. “Native America: In Translation,” curated by Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star,…

Spending time in the sands, immersing herself in a world of ceramics and ancient pottery at an archaeological dig site — for 12 years, this is how Stephennie Mulder spent…

The year is sometime between 1945 and 1952. Japan is under U.S. occupation. A new bureaucrat has been appointed as a censor, and already he has a complaint. A woman…

While the city of Austin sleeps, head track and field coach Edrick Floréal readies for work. Sometimes Floréal wakes up at 5 a.m. to lead the award-winning University of Texas…

Picture the stereotypical academic working on a book. Long hours of solitude, turning research into words on a page. Publish or perish. But in “Portraits of Persistence: Inequality and Hope…

The roof is gone, and the walls have been stripped away. The 12 primary support columns hold the last of the building together, resembling a rib cage on a carcass.…

A slight buzz from the air conditioning dances with the light chatter that fills the small room in the Main Building where Passport Services has been temporarily relocated. Cubicles circle…

Faces — or the absence thereof — dominate the works in the spring exhibitions of Art Galleries at Black Studies. But “Wave Patterns” by Michael A. Booker and “(un)knowing” by…

Faculty, staff members and students at The University of Texas connect with places and people around the globe. But the relationship with Mexico is special. “The Forty Acres is home…

Connie Dawes has a passion for helping high school students. After graduating from the University of Virginia, she worked for the College Advising Corps, which placed recent graduates in rural…