Sharon Wood does not start her day with coffee; she gave up caffeine during her undergraduate days. Instead, she starts by running or cycling. This will not surprise anyone who…

Someday, when you think back to life during 2020, what will you remember? Protests and a protracted presidential election? Masks and overflowing ICUs? Bleach and bread-baking tutorials? History is made…

Growing up in the 1960s, Jan Todd hardly considered sports an option for herself. Her father dismissed the idea of women in athletics, despite the hunting trips they took when…

Sarita Brown attended The University of Texas at Austin in the 1970s, a time when the Armadillo World Headquarters helped establish Austin as a live music capital and bell-bottom pants…

The Mental Health Assistance and Response Team is a new program that pairs mental health professionals with officers from the University of Texas Police Department.  When a call comes into…

Drive into the office. Sip coffee. Chat with co-workers. Attend meetings. For many of us, that was the start to a typical workday before March 2020. Then the COVID-19 pandemic…

Editor’s note: Bobby Chesney, Lauren Ancel Meyers and Richard Flores have helped lead UT’s new strategic planning effort. Chesney is associate dean for academic affairs at the UT Law School…

Mónica Fogelquist spent her undergraduate years splitting time between being a college student and a professional mariachi musician. It was no easy feat. As a violinist and singer with the…

It was nearly 9 a.m. on Dec. 14, in an industrial looking room of stone walls and stainless steel that was as crowded with news cameras and broadcast reporters as…

When controversy over UT’s school song boiled over last summer as part of a national movement to root out institutional racism, President Jay Hartzell responded by meeting with dozens of…

While working on an essay related to Simone de Beauvoir in the late 2000s, Judith Coffin came across a virtually unexplored archive of letters sent by readers to the famed…

In the American Southwest, where deer and coyotes roam free and the prickly pear cactus grows wild, there’s a new outsider ready to cause trouble. But there’s no need for…