The Alcalde

Xu Bing: Book from the Sky will be on display at the Blanton Museum of Art through Jan. 22, 2017.

In Prague, photography students learn a new way of seeing the world.

Meet Bevo XV—long may he reign.

Five years ago, a UT student was imprisoned in Iran. He’s still there.

What it's like growing up behind a counter in the wilds of East Texas' Big Thicket

A new exhibition at the Ransom Center explores photographer Elliott Erwitt’s sparkling sense of humor.

Iris Apfel

After getting cut from SNL after just one season, UT alum Noël Wells takes control as director of her first feature film.

Photo credit: Russell Lee Photograph Collection, Briscoe Center; UT-Austin

An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Now geologists are drilling into the crater left behind to learn how it happened—and what it means for life on Earth today.

We visit some of UT’s most popular watering holes

A recent exhibition united UT’s few African-American MFA in studio art alums.

Five days in New York with UT visiting professor Iris Apfel

An interview with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

A great professor can profoundly shape your college experience—they enlighten, inspire, motivate, and challenge. It’s often in hindsight we realize which teachers had the biggest impact on our lives, so we asked alumni to nominate their favorite professors on the Forty Acres. As we narrowed down the list to just 10 faculty members, descriptors like “passionate” and “exceptional” leapt out. Whether they’ve been at the University of Texas for three years or three decades, their zeal for knowledge and devotion to their students made an enduring impression.

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