The creation of a disability cultural center was a collective passion project. In 2021, a group of students, faculty members and staffers began dreaming about what such a center would…

Lightning spidered across the sky, illuminating the town as if it were midday. Not far behind it, thunder boomed and crackled, forcefully shaking the house. A little boy, no older…

On a damp, cloudy Tuesday in October, the Texas soccer team begins its warmup with a lap around the Mike A. Myers Track and Soccer Stadium. The towering floodlights brighten…

When Richard Costa was in The Old Guard in Fort Myer, Virginia, he facilitated over 3,000 ceremonies. Of all the vigils he oversaw, military-dependent funerals were the hardest.Costa, who was…

To a significant degree, UT helped build modern Austin, especially since the 1980s, when the university’s intellectual ecosystem touched off an explosion of technology companies starting up in and moving…

The University of Texas at Austin’s strategic plan for the next 10 years was born out of a basic recognition that the world around us has changed radically — and…

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…

Before Director Robert Devens and Editor-in-Chief Dawn Durante even joined The University of Texas Press, each had their sights set on our publishing house.  When UT Press’ biannual catalogs would…

As snow and ice covered Texas during a historic winter storm in February, Steve Sarkisian’s new coaching staff stayed put in one large house — “Big Brother” style. They didn’t…

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…

The University of Texas System’s Board of Regents unanimously voted to name Jay Hartzell president of UT on Sept. 23. Hartzell, who spent most of the past 25 years at…

Last March, as is tradition, young Black women and Latinas celebrated the end of the Fearless Leadership Institute Leadership Retreat by closing their eyes. Before them, a select few women from…