For nearly two years, Sandra A. Catlett has been the executive assistant for the director of McDonald Observatory, working out of Austin, and she is also the newly elected chair…

No time to make the drive from Austin to the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis? Good thing telescopes on campus can bring the stars to you. The University of Texas…

“Longhorns take care of each other” isn’t just a safety slogan used around campus — it’s the sentiment that inspired the creation of the UTPD Victims Advocate Network. “There was a longtime…

Colorful work Lawrence Gilbert, professor of integrative biology, director of the Brackenridge Field Laboratory and self-described “childhood naturalist,” began his career researching the coevolved traits — how species influence one…

On the third floor of the Fine Arts Library at The University of Texas at Austin, staffers, faculty members and students, regardless of their roles on campus, can find tools to print…

Before her morning meeting, Keniahkiw Weso had an important work engagement to attend: a cheese tasting. On June 13, several staff members from The University of Texas at Austin’s College…

A public university like The University of Texas at Austin lies at the intersection of several communities that have put their trust in us. The people of Texas support us…

Until 1956, black undergraduates were not allowed to enroll at The University of Texas at Austin. Women, though allowed to enroll from the school’s opening in 1883, did not enjoy…

There are many mountains between Los Angeles’ Grammy Museum and Austin, but no mountain was high enough to keep the spirit of Motown from getting to the LBJ Presidential Library.…

Stephen Vladeck, the A. Dalton Cross Professor in Law at The University of Texas School of Law, and Robert Chesney, the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs, often disagree,…

Anthony Alofsin is a rare combination of erudition and approachability. As an architect, a historian and a longtime architecture professor at The University of Texas at Austin, he has accumulated…

Throughout the world, the story is the same — young people leaving their rural homes and small towns for cities. In China, the percentage of people living in cities has…