Fall 2024
Aug 31, 2024
Coordinator of UT’s food and clothing pantry is inspired to see students helping other students
Tall black-and-silver shelving units line the wall, filled with row upon row of canned goods neatly arranged so their labels face front and center. Carrots, green beans, peaches, pears, ravioli…
Aug 31, 2024
Texas Athletics, Moody College train students on video production for SEC Network
The University of Texas’ move from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference brings monumental changes to Texas Athletics and college sports across the country. It’s also creating new opportunities…
Aug 31, 2024
Literature (Taylor’s Version): English professor takes class into new eras with music from Taylor Swift
lizabeth Scala, an English professor in the College of Liberal Arts, considers herself a medievalist. She has taught about pre-Shakespearean English poetry and manuscripts studies, with a focus on Geoffrey…
Aug 31, 2024
From country stars to an eclipsing sun, UT’s events team brings campus experiences to life
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…
Aug 30, 2024
Geologists test the use of AI in predicting Earthquakes
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,…
Aug 30, 2024
Blanton exhibition uses photography, related media to show diversity of Native American and First Nations artists
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,…
Aug 30, 2024
Video game project aims to bring ancient Syria back to life
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…
Aug 30, 2024
JapanLab students learn through game development
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…
Aug 29, 2024
Going the distance: For track and field coach Edrick Floréal, success is just part of the job
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…
Aug 29, 2024
Professor finds strength in collaboration while editing sociology book ‘Portraits of Persistence’
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…
Aug 29, 2024
Researcher uses data from Erwin Center demolition to make future construction projects more sustainable
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.…