In May 2022, The University of Texas at Austin rolled out Change Starts Here, an ambitious 10-year plan to make UT the highest-impact public research university in the world. The…

Wham! The sound of Russell Podgorsek’s body slamming into the floor echoes throughout the highest reaches of Bates Recital Hall. Skillfully rolling to his feet, the UT-based composer, building manager…

The neighborhood west of Guadalupe Street, known as West Campus, has long presented the University with a conundrum: It isn’t UT property, but it is overwhelmingly populated by UT students.…

In elementary school, Lisa B.  Thompson played with poetry. In high school, she began honing her literary craft. At UCLA, she studied English, integrating her love of the written word…

Deep within the corridors of UT’s Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Building (CPE), a piece of University history rests hidden inside a nondescript student research laboratory. Tightly wrapped in plastic, the…

Professor Arnold Jin has a habit of feeding his students. He began teaching at the Center for Asian American Studies in the fall of 2020, during the thick of the…

Ghostly pale lines produced by a high-powered projector flicker across a wall as the glitching scratch of static intermittently seeps from a row of black speakers. Gradually, a throbbing bass…

Bianca Hooi graduated from the Yale School of Drama and moved to New York City to become a stage manager. But in 2020, after two years working as a freelancer,…

As we all continue to surf the receding tide of the pandemic, mindfulness practices and physical exercise have taken hold as necessary tools to curb anxiety and depression, uncertainty and…

Bass and melodic rhythms reverberate across Mueller Lake Park on Friday, April 21. Children run about, laughing and playing. Parents spread colorful quilts and blankets on the grass. They sip…

The Great Hall at the Texas Memorial Museum is empty, save for the 36-foot-wide flying reptile Quetzalcoatlus hanging overhead and the scaffolding lining the high ceilings. The large collection of…

As a graduate student, Marilyn Tyus bustled about between stacks of books as she chipped away at a master’s degree in psychological counseling at Southeast Missouri State University. Between her…