Kaulie Watson
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Moonshot Funding for Dementia
UT Austin researchers look to Texas’ new $3 billion DPRIT fund for support in the fight against the disease
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UT to Lead NSF Center That Will Study How Robots and People Learn to Live and Work Together
A five-year collaboration between six universities and industry partners will place assistive robots in everyday human environments
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10 Years of Art Galleries at Black Studies
A decade of art, scholarship, and community at UT’s only gallery dedicated to the art of Africa and the African diaspora
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Does Your Neighborhood Shape Your Personality?
A new UT Austin study suggests a link between psychological characteristics and environmental features.
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The Gold Rush Ended, But Its Entrepreneurial Legacy Didn’t
The gold rushes that drew hundreds of thousands of people to the American West may have left behind more than abandoned mines. In a new study, a team of researchers co-led by The University of Texas at Austin found that communities shaped by gold rushes developed an entrepreneurial legacy that remains visible today.
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Vision Likely Drove the Evolution of Larger Brains in Humans and Related Primates
New research from UT Austin challenges the attribution of larger brains to an expansion of the brain’s frontal lobe.
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Asking Questions, Solving Puzzles, Playing Games
COLA alumna Juliette Seive on her path from the humanities to The New York Times Games
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Writing From the Void
Kirsten Cather on “Scripting Suicide in Japan”
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Let the Ancients Play
Want to understand ancient Greek music and theatre? Perform it
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“Paper Jane”
Janine Barchas looks back at 250 years of Jane Austen
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Because of Winedale
Bruce Meyer wants the show to go on forever
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2025: A Year in Books
Twelve faculty authors recommend reads for the new year
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Plan II Celebrates 90 Years and Plans for 90 More
At the celebrated honors program’s recent anniversary celebration, there was a clear message: There’s more where this came from
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More Than a Language
UT’s Yoruba studies program goes beyond grammar to connect students with Yoruba culture in West Africa and the diaspora
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Writing Toward Clarity
Jennifer Chang on Plato, patriarchy, and her Pulitzer-finalist poetry collection
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Reverse the Curse
Political scientist Delgerjargal Uvsh explores how resource-rich countries can turn crisis into change
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Snorkeling for Solutions
The Great Barrier Reef May Term program combines natural wonder and policy studies
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Making Time for Magic
COLA staff member Michelle Harris on writing her way to a second career as a novelist
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Foreign in a Domestic Sense
Mónica Jiménez on Puerto Rico and “Making Never-Never Land”
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Knocking on Doors
Montserrat Rocha got her internship at the Texas Capitol the old-fashioned way — and wants other students to follow her example
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MALS Celebrates 10 Years with “Knowledge is Power”
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
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A Man Obsessed
Oscar Cásares brings the border to the stage
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COLA’s Favorite Books of 2024
COLA faculty authors recommend 10 books to carry into the new year
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1984 In Their Words
Seven 1984 alumni share about their time on the Forty Acres
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1984 In Their Words: William “Bill” Shute
On how reading “King Lear” can lead to 38 years of marriage