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Kind, Curious and Fearless

Kind, Curious and Fearless

A Q&A with Anna Cash, a psychology senior from Austin who is passionate about law and justice.

Features

Investing in the Future

Investing in the Future

Jason Lamin, a 2020 Pro Bene Meritis award recipient, shares what he values in this moment and where he finds inspiration.

Celebrating a Lifetime of Achievement

Celebrating a Lifetime of Achievement

The American Sociological Association honors Jennifer Glass, Debra Umberson and Gloria González-López for their contributions to the field.

Blog

Capturing Culture

Capturing Culture

When people travel to the United States, they might be shocked at how large our portion sizes are, how friendly strangers may seem or how informal and direct conversations tend to be. These types of surprises can cause cultural shock, a common feeling that many people experience when traveling abroad or connecting with new cultures. […]

Listen to Black Lives Texas

Listen to Black Lives Texas

This month, millions of young Texans will face new struggles in the transition back to school amid a global pandemic. But for those facing food insecurity or limited internet access, the new school year poses greater threats. Two researchers at The University of Texas at Austin hope to open people’s ears to these and other […]

Exploring the World Through Language

Exploring the World Through Language

Sometimes we fall in love when we least expect it. Arriving at The University of Texas at Austin as a mathematically inclined freshman, Heather Rice had no intention of learning Russian. Now a lecturer in Slavic and Eurasian Studies at UT Austin, she’s spent the past two decades studying and teaching the language and culture […]

Retracing UT’s Complicated Racial Past

Retracing UT’s Complicated Racial Past

Taking graduation photos in front of Littlefield Fountain and singing “The Eyes of Texas” at a packed home football game are common bucket-list experiences uniting UT Austin’s students and alumni. Still, most people don’t realize the controversial history behind these traditions. For the last 20 years, anthropologist and founding chair for UT’s Department of African […]

Books

Travel by the Book

Travel by the Book

Literature and life guide Peter LaSalle’s latest collection of travel essays, The World is a Book, Indeed.

Shake Up Your Winter Reading

Shake Up Your Winter Reading

Winter 2020-21 books from our college community.

Commentary

Trump, defying custom, hasn’t given the National Archives records of his speeches at political rallies
Shannon Bow O'Brien

Trump, defying custom, hasn’t given the National Archives records of his speeches at political rallies

Public figures live on within the words they are remembered by. To understand the effect they had on history, their words need to be documented. No one is absolutely sure of exactly what Abraham Lincoln said in his most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address. Five known manuscripts exist, but all of them are slightly different. […]

Lab–grown embryos and human–monkey hybrids: Medical marvels or ethical missteps?
Sahotra Sarkar

Lab–grown embryos and human–monkey hybrids: Medical marvels or ethical missteps?

In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New World,” people aren’t born from a mother’s womb. Instead, embryos are grown in artificial wombs until they are brought into the world, a process called ectogenesis. In the novel, technicians in charge of the hatcheries manipulate the nutrients they give the fetuses to make the newborns fit the […]

Strong political institutions can uphold democracy, even if people can’t agree on politics
Sean Theriault and Joseph Daniel

Strong political institutions can uphold democracy, even if people can’t agree on politics

Americans’ trust in the federal government has declined steadily in the last half-century, polls show. The 2020 presidential election did little to restore that confidence. Although “democracy has prevailed,” as President Joe Biden said during his inauguration, a recent Marist College poll showed that one-third of the country believes the presidential election was “not legitimate,” […]

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