Connor Frew Work

The Artist's Way: A Forty Acres Scholar Finds His Voice

Connor Frew spent the summer before college scrounging for paint and supplies and ended up settling for the cheapest material he could find: rejected house paint samples from Home Depot. "I was worki

Dallas Chapter Scholarship Dinner Nets $300,000 [Watch]

The Texas Exes Dallas Chapter annual scholarship dinner is always a red-letter day, but this year the chapter took things to the next level.

Students and Counselor and Camp Texas

My Summers at Camp Texas

Caroline Meyerson is the recipient of the Susie and John L.

Tiffany Chan in front of fountain

Investing in Others: A Forty Acres Scholar's Summer of Service

Tiffany Chan is the recipient of the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation Forty Acres Scholarship and the Marilyn White Enrichment Award. Last spring, my women’s literature professor, Carol M

Stephanie Eisner

Forty Acres Scholar Studies Food Security at German University

Stephanie Eisner has wasted no time in getting real-world experience relevant to her public health major.

A Summer in Spain for Linda Shi

  Linda Shi visits the Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence, Italy while traveling solo after her study abroad term ended. When Forty Acres Scholar Linda Shi walked into her Spanish Civilizat

Alejandra Ortega Black and White

Trailblazer

Meet Alejandra Ortega: UT freshman, Forty Acres Scholar, aspiring math teacher, and the first high school graduate in her family.

Monica Bischoff

Monica Bischoff Interns at Microsoft

Monica Bischoff had never lived outside of Texas when she left for a 12-week financial internship with Microsoft in Redmond, Washington this past summer.

Chelsey Bravenec, Rachel Larson and Michelle Byers in front of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

Forty Acres Scholar Spends Summer in Spain

From left Chelsey Bravenec, Rachel Larson and Michelle Byers in front of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.[/caption] Architecture and Plan II sophomore and Forty Acres Scholar Rachel Larson spen

Akos Furton

'The Most Exhilarating Two Months of My Life': A Forty Acres Scholar Goes Abroad

Akos Furton is a UT sophomore studying business honors and mathematics and the recipient of the Ray and Denise Nixon Forty Acres Scholarship.