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Apr 21, 2024

Horticulturist looks to the past as he helps create the landscape looks of the future

As a child, Ty Kasey would visit The University of Texas with his father. The two would walk along Speedway before getting burgers at Dirty’s or seeing the Longhorns compete.…
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Kasey points to a plant in the greenhouse

Apr 21, 2024

Lifelong Learning with Friends hosts UT classes for adults with intellectual disabilities

Coconut milk, brown sugar, lime juice, chicken broth and onions wait on the tables in a room in the Neural and Molecular Science Building. About a dozen students sit crisscross…
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A student chops a mushroom

Apr 21, 2024

What starts here stays here: Meet former UT student workers who are now full-time employees

The University of Texas has more than 14,500 full- and part-time staff members. But did you know that, as of February 2024, the University also had more than 13,000 undergraduate…
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Man flashes the Hook 'em Horns sign

Apr 21, 2024

Storytelling in Spanish: Professor brings students’ creative voices to a wider audience with book ‘Contar Historias’

In the city of Quito, Ecuador, a young girl wrote poetry in the bedroom of her home. Her mother would collect these poems, and the girl would recite them at…
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Gabriela Polit portrait

Apr 21, 2024

Following through on the University’s strategic plan, Change Starts Here

In May 2022, The University of Texas at Austin rolled out Change Starts Here, an ambitious 10-year plan to make UT the highest-impact public research university in the world. The…
Read More Following through on the University’s strategic plan, Change Starts Here
A robot walks down Speedway

Dec 05, 2023

University Risk and Compliance Services races to get ahead of artificial intelligence as it sweeps across campus

Universities are currently grappling with integrating AI into various aspects of campus life, such as teaching, administrative tasks, student work, intellectual property rights, plagiarism detection, and even admissions. Jeffery Graves,…
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Illustration of a technological brain

Dec 05, 2023

Alex Huth and his team create an AI system that can translate brain activity into text

Science fiction has been heralding the advancement of artificial intelligence for decades. Through characters ranging from Samantha in “Her” to C-3PO in “Star Wars” and Data in “Star Trek,” creatives…
Read More Alex Huth and his team create an AI system that can translate brain activity into text
Rendering of a man with brain-shaped colorful abstract lines around his head

Dec 05, 2023

Building manager Russell Podgorsek sees joy in composition, heavy metal and martial arts

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…
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Portrait of Russell Podgorsek

Dec 05, 2023

UT expands efforts to make West Campus safer and cleaner

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.…
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Ambassadors clean up the sidewalk

Dec 05, 2023

Woolfolk Center for Language Disorders Research honors founder

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;…
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Portrait of Elizabeth Carrow-Woolfolk

Dec 05, 2023

Texas Performing Arts artist-in-residence works on ‘The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body’

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…
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Dec 05, 2023

UT Press coordinator shares love of ’60s jet-setting in historical romance debut novel ‘Follow the Sun’

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…
Read More UT Press coordinator shares love of ’60s jet-setting in historical romance debut novel ‘Follow the Sun’
Portrait of Liz Locke
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