What shrinking population numbers mean for the future of humanity
Fall 2026
The Last Conversation
Sociologist Dagoberto Cortez spent two years inside a cancer clinic listening to how doctors and dying patients talk — or don’t talk — about death
The Language and Labor of Caregiving
Erin Ice on how we care for our kin and ourselves
Marketing the Liberal Arts: Wolf Sweater
What a 15 year old YouTube video may — or may not — teach us
The Brain You Deserve
What science can tell us about aging well
The Hidden Curriculum
Zeltzyn Rubi Sanchez Lozoya talks with Deborah Beck about her long career in academia
On Time and Mortality
A political philosopher on what Homer, Cicero, and Epicurus can teach us about facing life’s end without illusions
The Crime Data Whisperer
COLA alum Jeff Asher applies his CIA training to analyzing the nation’s crime data
Texas-Deutsch ist Einzigartig
How a diverse patchwork of German speakers formed Texas’ most fascinating — and endangered — dialect
How Undergraduates are Helping Decode Congress
Led by government professor Sean Theriault, a team of COLA students is sorting thousands of congressional bills, one judgment call at a time
Moonshot Funding for Dementia
UT Austin researchers look to Texas’ new $3 billion DPRIT fund for support in the fight against the disease