Spring 2024
Apr 21, 2024
Globe-trotting Longhorns get help with travel documents at Passport Services
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…
Apr 21, 2024
Art Galleries at Black Studies exhibitions challenge how we understand cultural identities
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…
Apr 21, 2024
UT’s ties with Mexico highlighted at international book festival
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…
Apr 21, 2024
College of Education addresses mental health support for Texas public school students
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…
Apr 21, 2024
UT digital content coordinator’s podcast shares frightening folktales as way of preserving culture
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…
Apr 21, 2024
Engineering researcher and team hope water disinfecting cup can help during weather disasters
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…
Apr 21, 2024
The Center for Creative Economies braces artists for the real world
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…