Spring 2026
Mar 23, 2026
Finance professor’s constant evolution pays dividends in student learning
In her 23 years teaching finance at the University of Texas, Heidi Toprac has taught more than 35,000 students — and she has a spreadsheet where she’s kept a count…
Mar 23, 2026
What does it take to light the Tower? Meet some of the team behind the 88-year tradition
Usually, as the last light of day melts into the evening, the familiar ivory glow of the Tower illuminates The University of Texas campus. But some nights, the iconic landmark…
Mar 23, 2026
Visual Arts Center staff work behind the scenes to make the magic happen
On any given day at the Visual Arts Center, the space might be filled with the soft echo of a hammer tapping, a sculpture being measured for suspension or the…
Mar 23, 2026
Director Bob Bursey keeps looking for next big thing at Texas Performing Arts
The bustling crowd murmured with excitement as nearly 3,000 K-12 students shuffled into the dimly lit Bass Concert Hall on a Thursday morning in October. For more than two hours,…
Mar 23, 2026
Newest leader of University’s oldest research facility has long history with Jackson School of Geosciences
Seemingly endless rows stretch along the massive Austin Core Research Center of the Bureau of Economic Geology. Lorena Moscardelli walks through the corridors, gesturing to various artifacts stacked in carefully…
Mar 23, 2026
Blanton exhibit highlights modern American art from collection of H-E-B chairman
Works from artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence and Joan Mitchell come together at the Blanton Museum of Art for the exhibition “American Modernism from the Charles…
Mar 23, 2026
Staff members help students learn beyond the classroom
Staff members in the Division of Student Affairs help students find connection and community across the University, and their work has effects far beyond the Forty Acres. Research published in…
Mar 23, 2026
Professor’s latest poetry collection uses old texts to create new messages
Pages of dwindling brown imposed with black and white imagery revolve on a screen in the Harry Ransom Center: ink lungs blossoming with air, arms outstretched in perennial movement and…