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Wham! The sound of Russell Podgorsek’s body slamming into the floor echoes throughout the highest reaches of Bates Recital Hall. Skillfully rolling to his feet, the UT-based composer, building manager…

The neighborhood west of Guadalupe Street, known as West Campus, has long presented the University with a conundrum: It isn’t UT property, but it is overwhelmingly populated by UT students.…

Elizabeth Carrow-Woolfolk’s legacy holds layers of accomplishments: her bond with her husband, Robert, an esteemed renaissance man; her devout tenure as a nun within the Congregation of the Divine Providence;…

In elementary school, Lisa B.  Thompson played with poetry. In high school, she began honing her literary craft. At UCLA, she studied English, integrating her love of the written word…

Liz Locke has a lifelong love affair with the 1960s. She recalls growing up with 3WS, the local oldies station out of Pittsburgh, playing in her dad’s car. “House of…

Deep within the corridors of UT’s Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Building (CPE), a piece of University history rests hidden inside a nondescript student research laboratory. Tightly wrapped in plastic, the…

Professor Arnold Jin has a habit of feeding his students. He began teaching at the Center for Asian American Studies in the fall of 2020, during the thick of the…

A classroom with long, wide tables sits in the corner of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. On each surface is a stack of quilts faded with age. Vibrant…

Ghostly pale lines produced by a high-powered projector flicker across a wall as the glitching scratch of static intermittently seeps from a row of black speakers. Gradually, a throbbing bass…

Bianca Hooi graduated from the Yale School of Drama and moved to New York City to become a stage manager. But in 2020, after two years working as a freelancer,…

As we all continue to surf the receding tide of the pandemic, mindfulness practices and physical exercise have taken hold as necessary tools to curb anxiety and depression, uncertainty and…

UT prides itself on housing countless archives, collections and heirlooms. Some are carefully stored in dimly lit and climate-controlled rooms, preserved by caretakers; others are housed in classrooms, ready to…