Texas Connect

Lightning spidered across the sky, illuminating the town as if it were midday. Not far behind it, thunder boomed and crackled, forcefully shaking the house. A little boy, no older…

Four hours south of our main campus sits the Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas. Our coastal colleagues work day in and day out conducting research in collaboration with the…

Lady Bird Johnson traveled through the South in 1964 to garner support for her husband’s Civil Rights Act. She opted to travel by train in order to visit more rural…

In a childhood memory, David Hillis recalls the time when the woodlands of Lwiro in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo were unexpectedly pleasant. The region, where the…

Barry Miller is first in line at the UT Surplus Store every Thursday. When the doors open at 3 p.m. sharp, he greets the employees as if they’re relatives at…

On a damp, cloudy Tuesday in October, the Texas soccer team begins its warmup with a lap around the Mike A. Myers Track and Soccer Stadium. The towering floodlights brighten…

A sweeping archive at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection sits meticulously curated at the eastern perimeter of the Forty Acres. Melissa Guy, lead librarian and director, recalls two…

Lisa Thompson and Richard Reddick sit across from each other in a small recording studio at the KUT Radio newsroom. Reddick’s shirt reads “Black Austin Matters,” the title of one…

At the glassy blue waters’ edge of Greenland’s fjords sits the world’s second-largest ice sheet measuring between 6,600 and 9,800 feet thick and covering 660,000 square miles. The ice is…

When Richard Costa was in The Old Guard in Fort Myer, Virginia, he facilitated over 3,000 ceremonies. Of all the vigils he oversaw, military-dependent funerals were the hardest.Costa, who was…

Film experts and casual movie enthusiasts alike have a new exhibition to browse through at the Harry Ransom Center. “Drawing the Motion Picture,” which is free to the public and…

UT sophomore Sonali Reddy and senior Malvika Patil conclude their co-led campus tour in front of the UT Tower. Before they leave the visiting group of high school students and…