As this issue of the Alcalde arrives, commencement robes are draped over chairs, and another class of Longhorns is preparing to cross the stage. Their time on campus is coming to a close—and so is my term as your Texas Exes president. Servi…
All still active in their 84th years, four members of the School of Architecture’s 1965 graduating class reunite in Centerville, Texas. Pictured from left are James “Jim” Smith, BArch ’65, and Wayne Shull, BArch ’65; as well as former class…
The extraordinary duo of Bud, BS ’59, and Sandy Mulcahy, BA ’57, celebrate a new water well in Kapkesembe, Kenya, with a song of gratitude from members of the community. The Mulcahys have dedicated years to providing clean water to rural Ke…
For more than 30 years, the workspace of Jordan Cowman, BA ’85, JD ’88, Life Member, has centered around the desk that once belonged to Edward A. Clark, LLB ’28, Life Member, who was a trusted confidant of President Lyndon Johnson and known…
At a restaurant with friends, Erica Brozovsky’s waiter turned to her at the end of their meal with a smile: “I just want to let you know I’m a huge fan.” Brozovsky, BA ’13, MA ’16, PhD ’20, has only been recognized in public four times (so
When Jessica Bartley was playing goalkeeper on a club soccer team during her high school days in Richardson, she dreamt of playing for the Longhorns. But a string of injuries, including a significant rotator cuff injury, plus broken ribs su…
Fifteen years ago, the Alcalde awarded the inaugural Texas 10 cohort. The 2026 Texas 10 brings this group of lauded educators to a round 150. Among a healthy spread of other faculty awards at the University, the Texas 10 was intended to sta…
In the aftermath of the Antonine Plague nearly 2,000 years ago, an enslaved woman in Egypt faced an uncertain future. Her master had died, and another man claimed to have inherited her. Rather than quietly accept her fate, she filed a legal…
Reena Shah wrote, then scrapped, her first novel when she was 23 years old. Twenty years later, she wrote her second. In between, she danced professionally for years, taught in public schools around the world, and started a family. When tha…
Something big is happening in the life of The University of Texas. In the boardroom of the UT System Building, in meeting rooms inside the President’s Office, in conference rooms at Dell Medical School, and across the Forty Acres, a massive…
On a late Friday afternoon in fall 2024, as students and faculty trickled out of the Main Building for the weekend, a group of deans showed up ready for business. They headed to the second-floor conference room, carrying amps, guitars, and
On a warm morning in the Texas Hill Country, a group of students from The University of Texas at Austin move slowly between rows of grapevines with clippers in hand and coolers full of dry ice at their feet. They work carefully, cutting lea…