What science can tell us about aging well
Features
The Last Conversation
Sociologist Dagoberto Cortez spent two years inside a cancer clinic listening to how doctors and dying patients talk — or don’t talk — about death
The Crime Data Whisperer
COLA alum Jeff Asher applies his CIA training to analyzing the nation’s crime data
Blog
Baby Geniuses
Psychologist Chen Yu studies how young children learn. What he’s finding might one day help our most advanced machine learning models learn, too.
More Than Recognition
COLA’s Undergraduate Leadership Recognition Dinner celebrates liberal arts students’ impact while helping them build professional connections
A Naval Officer, a Rabbi, and an Options Trader Walk Into a Bar. All Three Are Phillip Lieberman
Meet the new director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
Marketing the Liberal Arts: Wolf Sweater
What a 15 year old YouTube video may — or may not — teach us
Teaching & Learning
How Undergraduates are Helping Decode Congress
Led by government professor Sean Theriault, a team of COLA students is sorting thousands of congressional bills, one judgment call at a time
Figures in the Firmament
A popular signature course explores the millennia-old relationship between religion and the cosmos
Deus Ex Machina?
Chad Seales explores the parallels between AI and religion
Research
Aging Out
What shrinking population numbers mean for the future of humanity
The Language and Labor of Caregiving
Erin Ice on how we care for our kin and ourselves
Moonshot Funding for Dementia
UT Austin researchers look to Texas’ new $3 billion DPRIT fund for support in the fight against the disease
Books
Beauty and the Biologists
Megan Poole on “Listening to Beauty: Rhetorics of Science in Sea and Sound”
Fitness Fuels Creativity
UT alumni Sebastian Langdell and Lucas Schaefer in conversation about Schaefer’s new novel “The Slip”
