COLA alumna Juliette Seive on her path from the humanities to The New York Times Games
Features
Cold War Crate Digging
A digitized resource offers a glimpse of the Eastern Bloc from U.S. documents
It Don’t Mean a Thing (If You’re Not in Manhattan)
Jason Borge chases down the memory of jazz virtuoso Booker T. Pittman
Blog
How a Peel-Off Lip Liner Led One Alumna to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List
Almost 10 years ago, Sarah Cheung started a beauty YouTube channel while studying philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. This year, she’s featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list.
A College of Liberating Arts
A message from interim dean David Sosa to the COLA Class of 2026
Beyond the Achievement Gap
Pioneering educational psychologist Edmund Gordon has spent decades advocating for disadvantaged students
Think Inside the Boxes
Linguistics professor Kyle Mahowald has a passion for crossword puzzles
Teaching & Learning
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
Plan II Celebrates 90 Years and Plans for 90 More
At the celebrated honors program’s recent anniversary celebration, there was a clear message: There’s more where this came from
Research
Michael Roy Hames-García Brings Intervention Science Research into Austin’s Most Troubled Neighborhoods
Michael Roy Hames-García, a professor of Mexican American and Latina/o studies at UT Austin, has never been content with pursuing strictly theoretical academic research. Throughout his career studying inequities in the criminal justice system, he has consistently asked how academic knowledge can move into the community and contribute to meaningful change. “I have spent most […]
Looks Matter
RaMell Ross on the importance of aesthetics
Italians in Texas
A research project with COLA’s Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program explores an often overlooked history
Books
Writing From the Void
Kirsten Cather on “Scripting Suicide in Japan”
The Long Road to Grown-Up
Shannon E. Cavanagh and Robert Crosnoe on how today’s young adults are redefining adulthood
