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Savannah Rakovalis, Kate McMillan and Kate Fiore browse the Blue Genie Art Bazaar after getting a recommendation from a coworker in Austin, Texas on Nov. 19, 2024.

Blue Genie Art Bazaar brings handcrafted art to Austin holiday shoppers

Maya Thakur, General Life&Arts Reporter November 21, 2024

Filled with spirited customers, colorful artwork and holiday cheer, the Blue Genie Art Bazaar has been a staple of the Austin community for almost 24 years. An annual market featuring the work of over...

Verified Carbon Co-Founder Coleman White, left, and Chief Business Officer Thomas McGuire photographed at the UT Main Building on Friday, November 15, 2024.

Alum’s Texas-based startup revolutionizes direct air capture with world’s first 100% wind-powered facility

Maya Thakur, Life&Arts General Reporter November 21, 2024

Over the past 11 months, UT alumnus Coleman White and his team at Texas-based startup Verified Carbon worked to develop the world’s first 100% wind-powered direct air capture facility, which would help...

All That Glitters: The Practice & Preservation of Hand Tooling exhibition at the UT Administration building on November 14, 2024.

‘All That Glitters’ is not gold, School of Information proves hand-tooling is

Charlotte Karner, General Life&Arts Reporter November 19, 2024

When professor Sarah Norris started teaching at the School of Information in 2020, she based one of the first classes she taught on her own challenges in the field. Norris said she found librarians often...

UT students promote Austin OCD Walk to share stories of resilience 

UT students promote Austin OCD Walk to share stories of resilience 

Angelina Liu, General Life&Arts Reporter November 8, 2024

On Saturday morning, families and friends in bright blue t-shirts gathered in front of Loop Running Supply in Gables Park Plaza in anticipation for the annual One Million Steps for OCD Walk hosted...

UT alumna turns curiosity into productivity with first book “Out of Paper”

UT alumna turns curiosity into productivity with first book “Out of Paper”

Charlotte Karner, General Life&Arts Reporter October 23, 2024

As a Ph.D. student at the University, art historian Katie Anania developed curiosity for drawing as a medium in the 60s and 70s, when works on paper started to be shown as final products in exhibitions....

An Vo and Hieu Tran present their business during the finals of the Herb Kelleher Entrepreneurship Center's Freed Family 2024 Pitch Competition on Oct. 17, 2024.

UT engineering students win Freed Family Pitch Competition with ‘All Eyes’ uniquely accessible vision care instrument

Maya Thakur, General Life&Arts Reporter October 22, 2024

A year of late nights hunched over hot glue in a Jester dorm room and rehearsing their pitch presentations paid off for Raghav Katta, An (Ian) Vo and Hieu (Johnny) Tran. On Thursday, they won first place...

SHEspeaks brings panel of founding businesswomen to campus, sharing their success through failure

SHEspeaks brings panel of founding businesswomen to campus, sharing their success through failure

Katherine Jones, Life&Arts Senior Reporter October 22, 2024

A panel of female founders and leaders shared their journeys and insights at the Kendra Scott Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute’s SHEspeaks event. Sharing anecdotes on milestones as well...

Barefoot Outfitters employees smile behind the checkout counter during the grand opening of their store on Oct. 17, 2024.

New family-owned game day store brightens up empty storefronts on Guadalupe

Bailey Raymond, General Life&Arts Reporter October 21, 2024

On Wednesday at 12:20 p.m., the desolate storefront on Guadalupe housed a few shelves and a ladder. By 4 p.m. the next day, customers streamed into the fully stocked Barefoot Campus Outfitter to check...

UT study provides cell phones to Austin’s unhoused population

UT study provides cell phones to Austin’s unhoused population

Behr Rinke, General Life&Arts Reporter October 16, 2024

While working as a pharmacist in Richmond, Virginia, Leticia Moczygemba Ph.D. interviewed unhoused service providers — caseworkers, nurse practitioners and physicians — to better understand the...

Meadows Center announces UT’s first ‘Educator Icon’

Meadows Center announces UT’s first ‘Educator Icon’

Sabrina Ye, General Life&Arts Reporter October 15, 2024

In 2004, Vaughn Gross boarded a bus with friends, expecting a fun day trip. She did not know that her husband secretly planned a surprise honoring her lifelong dedication to education. As the bus arrived...

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Austin-based Con Mi MADRE gets its own city-designated holiday, supports Latina daughter-mother success through college

Tyler Pullum, General Life&Arts Reporter October 10, 2024

The city of Austin honored Con Mi MADRE, an Austin-based non-profit, with its own day. Proposed by Councilwoman Vanessa Fuentes, the Sept. 26 designation honors the organization’s dedication to helping...

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