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The Texas Exes Reaches 100,000 Life Members
By Eliza Pillsbury
It was a warm and slightly humid May morning at the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park just northwest of Atlanta, Georgia,...
Texas Football’s Rowdiest Season in a Generation
By Alan Cundy
The Undertaker and Quinn Ewers after the 2023 Big 12 Championship game. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Texas Football...
The 2023 Outstanding Young Texas Exes Are Ahead of the Game
By Eliza Pillsbury
From left, Dr. Amy Faith Ho, C.C. Melvin Ike, Kovid Gupta, Glen Powell. One of the most prestigious awards given by the Texas Exes...
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UT Prepares for the Total Solar Eclipse
By Robyn Ross
As her husband drove through southeastern Wyoming’s rolling hills, Martinique Pautzke studied an eclipse map on her phone. Then...
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Texas Performing Arts and Broadway Across America Bring the Great White Way to Campus
By Jason Cohen
You never forget your first time. Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway. For Kristen Caskey, BA ’94, who...
The Alcalde Meets Stonehenge
By Alan Cundy
Denise Carlson Bargsley, BS ’87, Life Member, an English II teacher at Arlington High School, brought a group of current and former students—along with...
Alcalde Docs
The Carolyn Jackson Show
By Alcalde Staff
Carolyn Jackson, BFA ’48, who died in 2024, hosted a daytime television show in the 1960s and ’70s that captured a bygone era in Austin, Texas. From Carrie...
HookedIn Spotlight Series: Zaina Sarwar
By Eliza Pillsbury
Zaina SarwarSecond-year economics majorEngagement intern, Texas Exes It’s time for another edition of our HookedIn Spotlight Series! More than 20,000 Longhorns...
Riding the Waves in Costa Rica
By Alan Cundy
Reuniting over a surf lesson in Nosara, Costa Rica, in March of 2024 were Katherine Kykta, BS ’18; Ryan Pauley, BBA ’19; and Sarah Maguire, BS ’17, Life...
Student and Local Organizations Inspire Next Generation of Scientists at UT’s STEM Girl Day
By Trinity Flaten
A girl and her father visit an exhibit demonstrating the buoyancy of golf balls. Millie Bobby Brown’s turbine-like hooks, which spin in a move called “The...
Alcalde Docs
The Same Token
By Alcalde Staff
As one of the most beloved Longhorn traditions approaches a key milestone, we look back on how it came to be—and its lasting legacy.
A Longhorn Family Explores Their New Home Country One State at a Time
By Karina Kumar
From left, Gagandeep, Anhad, and Aman in Grand Teton, Wyoming, 2022. At home, Gagandeep Singh and Aman Sandhu struggle to find an empty spot on their fridge....
West Campus Market Provides Venue and Music Community
By Ava Motes
Midnight Butterfly performing at Friendly Rio Market on Dec. 9, 2023. As dusk falls over West Campus, the concrete walls of a neighborhood corner store thrum...