A combined interest in the humanities and science — and a lifelong commitment to helping those most in need — has guided Kimberley Monday’s life and celebrated career
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Knocking on Doors
Montserrat Rocha got her internship at the Texas Capitol the old-fashioned way — and wants other students to follow her example
Paying It Forward
A new scholarship for COLA students honors David Garza’s parents
“Sustainability is the Solution”
Two COLA students explain what the Campus Environmental Center offers and why it matters
Coffee, Clinics, and Compassion
COLA alumna Maria Farahani does it all
Toy Story
COLA alumnus Jeremy Padawer has transformed the toy industry with a keen sense for how collectors think
MALS Celebrates 10 Years with “Knowledge is Power”
The Department of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies invited two artists to commemorate its first decade with a custom mural, now open to the public
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
Graduate Student Spotlight: Gwen Ruth Jones
Diving into the archaeology of childhood in Eckley
Just Like Football
Why we should think about liberal arts education as drilling students for the game of life
COLA’s Favorite Books of 2024
COLA faculty authors recommend 10 books to carry into the new year
Faculty Spotlight: Daniel Brinks
“My research is primarily about the way in which we are all constituted as citizens—whatever regime we live under—by a set of rights and duties, and about the legal scaffolding that makes those rights and duties a reality (or not).”
Demystifying Pre-Law: A Crash (Canvas) Course
Liberal Arts Career Services helps thousands of would-be law students navigate the pre-law process. Now, with the launch of a new Canvas page, that support is more available than ever.
Professor Partners with Ugandan University for Primate Conservation
Aaron Sandel on studying chimpanzee behavior and avoiding “parachute science”
Grad School Days
When I arrived in graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin in the late 1970s, Austin felt like a foreign land
Selling the Liberal Arts: Back to the Future
On the liberal arts as time machine, now machine, why machine, and so what machine
The Aims of a Presidential Assassin
On the history — and meaning — of the modern presidential assassination attempt
Meet Juan Pablo Abalo, LLILAS Artist-in-Residence
The Chilean composer, musical producer, and artist will be the first artist-in-residence at LLILAS in recent history
A Place to Belong
With her gift to the Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies at UT, Mary Braunagel-Brown supports students as they find their footing on campus
Mākua’s Futures
Laurel Mei-Singh on the possibilities for life after militarism in Hawai’i
The King and I
On receiving the Vega Medal — and meeting the king of Sweden, Carl Gustav XVI
Lost in the Sauce
Ashanté Reese on the beautiful, the useful, and being on Team Too Much