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Student grad photographers race against Tower restoration project

Student grad photographers race against Tower restoration project

Behr Rinke, General Life&Arts Reporter December 4, 2024

As the UT tower’s restoration project (literally) looms over campus, student photographers feel the pressure to capture graduation photos before it’s too late.  Beginning this month and set to...

‘CYPHERS’ dance performance pushes boundaries of audience expectations

‘CYPHERS’ dance performance pushes boundaries of audience expectations

Behr Rinke, Life&Arts General Reporter November 17, 2024

Blending ballet, African and modern dance styles, UT’s Dance Repertory Theatre introduced audiences to “CYPHERS” on Thursday evening. The performance consists of Department of Theatre and Dance...

Some novels transport readers far away from their everyday lives. Others, like those in the campus novel subgenre, offer readers a chance to look more closely at the world around them. The Daily Texan compiled a list of six praiseworthy university campus novels from the last decade.

Six best college campus novels from the last decade

Behr Rinke, General Life&Arts Reporter November 6, 2024

Some novels transport readers far away from their everyday lives. Others, like those in the campus novel subgenre, offer readers a chance to look more closely at the world around them. The Daily Texan...

Tyler, the Creator shines light on darkness with Chromakopia

Tyler, the Creator shines light on darkness with Chromakopia

Behr Rinke, Life&Arts General Reporter October 29, 2024

Days after headlining the Austin City Limits Music Festival, Tyler, The Creator announced his seventh studio album, Chromakopia. The follow-up to 2021’s Call Me If You Get Lost, an album centered around...

Guadalupe Street on Oct. 23, 2024.

New businesses on The Drag face barriers to success

Behr Rinke, General Life&Arts Reporter October 24, 2024

Zack Smith grew up playing video games at Einstein’s Video Arcade on Guadalupe Street. Employees there wore white lab coats and the low lighting felt like stepping into a mad scientist’s laboratory....

Un estudio de UT proporciona teléfonos móviles a la población sin vivienda de Austin

Un estudio de UT proporciona teléfonos móviles a la población sin vivienda de Austin

Behr Rinke and Iñaki Zamarripa October 19, 2024

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 17 de Octubre del 2024 por Behr Rinke y fue traducido al español por Iñaki Zamarripa. Mientras trabajaba como farmacéutica en Richmond...

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...

Varia Sufueva (left) and Meredith Winfield, student researchers, collect an oral sample from a turtle at Turtle Pond on Oct. 1, 2024. Samples are collected for comparing the different microbiomes of the turtles in this environment.

Student researchers continue study on turtle pond, educating fellow Longhorns

Behr Rinke, General Life&Arts Reporter October 8, 2024

Meredith Winfield grew up catching red-eared slider turtles from her family’s catfish pond. When the invasive turtles began eating the fish, she and her brother captured the turtles with a Home Depot...

Estudiantes asisten ACL Como trabajadores para negocios locales

Estudiantes asisten ACL Como trabajadores para negocios locales

Behr Rinke and Diana Villagómez October 7, 2024

Nota del editor: Este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 3 de octubre de 2024 por Behr Rinke y fue traducido al español por Diana Villagómez. Al igual que muchos jóvenes de Austin, Jackie...

Students attend ACL as workers for local businesses

Students attend ACL as workers for local businesses

Behr Rinke, General Life&Arts Reporter October 3, 2024

Like many young Austinites, then-seventh grader Jackie Meisel knew exactly what to ask her parents for each year when birthdays and Christmas came around — a prized Austin City Limits Music Festival...

The audience applauds the founder of Career City Limits, Jamil Hooper, and the four speakers from HEB Digital on Wednesday Sept. 4, 2024. From left to right, Maria Rodriguez, Emily Do, Claren Moyers, Jamil Hooper, and Alyssa Zuniga Patel who joined the panel via Zoom.

Career City Limits speaker sessions connect students to employers

Behr Rinke, Life&Arts General Reporter September 22, 2024

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a UT faculty member sought to bridge the gap between students and future employers. Jamil Hooper founded what is now Career City Limits, a week-long speaker series...

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