Psychology professor David Yeager on how to speak so young people will listen
Features
A Gift for Real Dialogue
With a gift to the College of Liberal Arts, Carl and Tamara Tricoli have created opportunities for students to engage in challenging but invaluable conversations
A Man Obsessed
Oscar Cásares brings the border to the stage
Blog
Empowering Empathy on Campus
With the launch of the Student Well-Being Center, Humanitas prioritizes students’ mental health
Illustrating COLA: A Q&A with Dave McClinton
Meet the artist behind COLA’s latest poster project — and get a preview of the final designs
Highbrow Advice For Life: More Than Baseball
What wisdom can we learn from “wisdom literature”?
With Lessons Learned in Northern Ireland, Students Aim to Improve Healing Spaces on UT Campus
As part of an initiative funded by the President’s Award for Global Learning, four students bring trauma-informed design to UT campus
Teaching & Learning
Law, Societies, and Justice for All
UT’s Initiative for Law, Societies, and Justice unites scholars, researchers, students, and community organizers in the pursuit of a more equitable criminal justice system
Where the Great Books Live
The Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas relies on the great books to prepare its students for the future
Hunting Oppenheimer
Bruce Hunt regularly teaches a course at UT on the “History of the Atomic Bomb” — and he has a few quibbles with Christopher Nolan’s latest film
Research
Modeling Disability Justice, One Relative Unit of Forward Movement at a Time
Alison Kafer and Julie Minich are using their institutional platform — along with a financial boost from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — to make waves in the field of disability studies
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez Has Some Questions For You
An experienced journalist turned university professor, Rivas-Rodriguez is leading CMAS through its largest oral history project yet
Tom Cook’s Legacy
UT anthropologist Maria Franklin spotlights Black history in Bolivar, Texas
Books
A Tale of Three Nations
Sociologist Kim Pernell on what financial policy can tell us about what nations do or don’t prioritize — and why
Writing Portraits
Javier Auyero on his new book, “Portraits of Persistence: Inequality and Hope in Latin America”
