When Marianna Garcia thinks of Venezuela, she thinks of her family’s toy store — the oldest in Caracas — the beaches of Puerto la Cruz her family drove to on Christmas day and the mango...

When Japhet left Nigeria, he was running for his life. “After I ran, I was just moving from place to place,” Japhet said. “I was miserable. I didn’t know what to do, the only...

After receiving news of the earthquake in Ecuador on April 16, business sophomore Bernardo Vallarino’s first instinct was to call his family. Despite his immense relief in discovering they were fine,...

In this compilation of stories, the Life & Arts department explores the joys and challenges that come with love. Despite discrimination, distance and life's many responsibilities, these four student...

They met in the campus library, pouring over the same stack of 50 children’s books they procrastinated reading for the semester. Finals ended and they went their separate ways, but when they returned...

Several inches of snow coated Austin’s roads, power lines were down and everyone stayed in bed, confined to their homes. But when Alex woke up, he threw on his snow gear and made the trek...

Almost five thousand miles separated Saba A. from his future wife when he left Iran to pursue a degree in Estonia. He wasn’t looking for a relationship, but that changed once he met Rona A.  They...

Jennifer Smith proposed five times before Joshua Hilliard came around to the idea of marriage.  “He kept saying no — not like ‘No, I don’t want to marry you,’...

To read more stories about the history of gentrification in East Austin, click here. During the 1950s, Carmen and Moses Vasquez wanted to fill Austin’s Mexican food void with the flavor from their...

To read more stories about the history of gentrification in East Austin, click here. Growing up in the ’80s, Juan Guerra and his cousins walked from their houses to their family-owned East Austin...

To read more stories about the history of gentrification in East Austin, click here. When the Cisneros family founded Sunny Veil, East Austin’s first bakery, they rode their horses from East Seventh...

Ty Wilson said he’d always heard losing a limb was like losing a loved one.  In his upcoming documentary, Wilson, a radio-television-film senior, follows the lives of four UT students who,...