Twenty years ago, Barton Springs’ cool waters saved radio-television-film senior lecturer Karen Kocher from her first Texas summer. While she used to bring a towel and a swimsuit, she now hauls a...
Every day for the past year, undergraduate studies sophomore Joshua Sherden has sported a bucket hat. He picks from his collection of more than 70 that surround his dorm room in stacks of plaid, camouflage...
Editor’s Note: 60 Seconds is a recurring series that peeks into the lives of professors across campus. This Q&A has been edited for brevity and clarity.
Herpetology curator and lecturer Travis...
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Kevin Vela
When radio-television-film senior...
Editor’s note: In 300 words or less, this series spotlights people in our community whose stories typically go untold.
Every time Sarah Abare visited her grandfather as a kid, she ran straight...
UT alumna Olga Lee’s Polkadots Cupcake Factory began with an Easy-Bake Oven.
As a little girl, her parents refused to buy Olga her own toy oven, so she resorted to using her friend’s to...
In the middle of the night, police broke down the doors of a communal home in Peru. They snatched away the transgender women living inside, along with UT alumna Danielle Villasana, who documented it all.
After...
In his first three months as UT president, Gregory Fenves has called for the removal of a statue of confederate leader Jefferson Davis from campus, organized a working group to tackle issues related to...
When she’s not juggling a 22-hour course load, radio-television-film freshman Maddy Parkinson spends her time in a world of goddesses and a full-on dystopian rebellion.
On Sept. 2, Parkinson released...
A room filled with 500,000 insects is the stuff of most people’s nightmares. But for research scientists who use the University of Texas Insect Collection, it’s a dream come true.
The collection,...
The journey to success has been long for junior outside hitter Paulina Prieto Cerame — and it’s not over yet.
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Cerame moved to Miami, Florida. She served as...
