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Championing Both Sides of the Brain

May 29, 2025 by Johnny Holden

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

Knocking on Doors

May 27, 2025 by Kaulie Watson

Montserrat Rocha got her internship at the Texas Capitol the old-fashioned way — and wants other students to follow her example

Paying It Forward

May 8, 2025 by Maureen Turner

A new scholarship for COLA students honors David Garza’s parents

“Sustainability is the Solution”

April 28, 2025 by Olivia Ring

Two COLA students explain what the Campus Environmental Center offers and why it matters

Coffee, Clinics, and Compassion 

April 17, 2025 by Juliana Smith-Etienne

COLA alumna Maria Farahani does it all

Toy Story

April 10, 2025 by Michael Agresta

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”

March 24, 2025 by Kaulie Watson

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

March 3, 2025 by Olivia Ring

With the launch of the Student Well-Being Center, Humanitas prioritizes students’ mental health

Illustrating COLA: A Q&A with Dave McClinton

February 26, 2025 by Leora Visotzky

Meet the artist behind COLA’s latest poster project — and get a preview of the final designs

Highbrow Advice For Life: More Than Baseball

February 24, 2025 by Bruce Wells

What wisdom can we learn from “wisdom literature”?

With Lessons Learned in Northern Ireland, Students Aim to Improve Healing Spaces on UT Campus

February 17, 2025 by Cara Lowrimore

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

February 10, 2025 by Julia Earle

Diving into the archaeology of childhood in Eckley

Just Like Football

January 15, 2025 by Ann Huff Stevens

Why we should think about liberal arts education as drilling students for the game of life

COLA’s Favorite Books of 2024

January 6, 2025 by Kaulie Watson

COLA faculty authors recommend 10 books to carry into the new year

Faculty Spotlight: Daniel Brinks

December 5, 2024 by Susanna Sharpe

“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

November 20, 2024 by Juliana Smith-Etienne

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

October 31, 2024 by Sophia Baca

Aaron Sandel on studying chimpanzee behavior and avoiding “parachute science”

Grad School Days

October 23, 2024 by Néstor Rodríguez

When I arrived in graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin in the late 1970s, Austin felt like a foreign land

President Reagan giving his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas, August 23, 1984, contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Ronald Reagan Library Museum Collection (NAID 6816361)

Selling the Liberal Arts: Back to the Future

October 23, 2024 by Daniel Oppenheimer

On the liberal arts as time machine, now machine, why machine, and so what machine

The Aims of a Presidential Assassin

October 1, 2024 by Shannon Bow O'Brien

On the history — and meaning — of the modern presidential assassination attempt

Meet Juan Pablo Abalo, LLILAS Artist-in-Residence

September 16, 2024 by Susanna Sharpe

The Chilean composer, musical producer, and artist will be the first artist-in-residence at LLILAS in recent history

A Place to Belong

September 11, 2024 by Michael Agresta

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

August 27, 2024 by Kaulie Watson

Laurel Mei-Singh on the possibilities for life after militarism in Hawai’i

The King and I

August 12, 2024 by Steven Seegel

On receiving the Vega Medal — and meeting the king of Sweden, Carl Gustav XVI

Lost in the Sauce

July 31, 2024 by Kaulie Watson

Ashanté Reese on the beautiful, the useful, and being on Team Too Much

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