In 2014, Maro Youssef arrived in Tunisia just one day before the country passed a constitution that is among the most progressive in the world. She was serving as a foreign affairs analyst at the American embassy in Tunisia.
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Earliest Mayan Ceremonial Structure Unearthed
The discovery of a near 3,000-year-old platform, built among wetlands and rivers of the Mexican tropical forest, offers new insight into the Maya’s early communal development.
Three Ways Kids Can Learn through Play at Home
family and community. But recent shelter-in-place efforts have limited many of these routine yet vital experiences — especially because young kids can’t video call or text their friends as freely as others.
German Outreach Program Takes Shape
The German Outreach Program at The University of Texas at Austin grew organically from an interest on the part of undergraduates to change their roles in the classroom and share the German language with a younger generation.
Career Advice for Graduating Seniors
As we approach the last few weeks of the school year, students are beginning to look toward future plans, and for most graduating seniors this means focusing on their careers.
From Bloody Shoes to Dancing Mice: The Evolution of Fairy Tales
In the Grimms version of Snow White, our heroine is awoken from her bewitched slumber not by a handsome prince’s kiss, but when the jostling of a clumsy servant dislodges a chunk of poisoned apple from her throat.
Inhale. Exhale. Analyze.
Mehdi Haghshenas’ signature course “What We See, What We Believe” focuses on critical analysis of media, but he begins the class with a meditation.
Timeline Tool Connects the Dots
Learning history requires more than just being able to recall the dates when battles were fought or naming all 45 U.S. presidents.
Camp Alba
After spending three days on the University of Texas at Austin campus, sixth graders from Martin Middle School left with a greater sense of connection to their communities and their first single track, produced by hip-hop artist and activist Olmeca.
Finding common ground in water
When pressed to summarize the path of his wide spanning career, Paul Adams offers one word, “discourse.”
Design Thinking
Daunting problems require new ideas and a new way of thinking — design thinking.
Comics in the Classroom
Rikke Cortsen is occasionally surprised to remember that not everyone she meets is an avid reader of comic books.
Arsenic and Lace: Why Save (Deadly) Objects?
Killer wallpaper. A childhood comic strip. A 10-foot portrait made of hair combs. Secret Oval Office Dictabelt recordings. These objects share one thing in common — they’re preserved in archives.
Follow Your Arts Desire
With all the events going on around town this month, it’s easy to forget that we have several excellent art galleries right on campus.
A Whole World of Music
Every March thousands of musicians from around the globe descend on Austin for South by Southwest (SXSW), clogging traffic, jacking up flight prices and making it impossible for locals to enjoy a quiet drink within a five-mile radius of downtown.
Free Minds, Free Education
While higher education is often touted as the cornerstone of a successful and prosperous life, many are left in the dust, unable to afford the tuition or balance the time needed to build that foundation.
Written in Stone: Studying the Relationship Between Ancient Writing Systems and Their Writers
Beyond the classrooms in Waggener Hall and deep in the archives on prehistoric scripts, Cassandra Donnelly found her calling.
Professor’s Play “Monroe” Reveals the Ripple Effect of Racial Violence
If every action produces a series of consequences, imagine life if slavery or Jim Crow had never existed. Now, consider what has happened because they’ve existed.
To Paint is to Write: The Study of Mithila Folk Art
In English, writing is very different than painting. But in Hindi, and specifically in the landscape of Mithila folk art, “to paint” is “to write.”