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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…

Spirits, ghouls, demons — are they real and lurking among us, or were they invented to scare little children into following rules? This is the focus of Ayden Castellanos’ growing…

In recent years, natural disasters and human error have temporarily left the people of Austin without clean water, sometimes for days at a time. In both Hurricane Harvey in 2017…

When Sonia Montoya graduated from the University of Colorado with hopes of acting onstage or starting a nonprofit, she felt unsure about what she needed to do to make that…

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.…

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…

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…