Issues: Spring 2021

  • A Look at Our Latest Books

    A Look at Our Latest Books

    2021 Spring and Summer titles from our college community.

  • Biden Administration to Nominate Liberal Arts Alumna to Chair ACHP

    Biden Administration to Nominate Liberal Arts Alumna to Chair ACHP

    President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Sara Bronin, a Plan II Honors and Architecture alumna from The University of Texas at Austin, as Advisory Council on Historic Preservation…

  • The Body’s Real-Time Response to Racism

    The Body’s Real-Time Response to Racism

    For the first time, researchers have recorded how the body responds when someone is confronted with racism or discrimination in the real world, providing new insight into health disparities in…

  • Giving a Sip

    Giving a Sip

    Akash Thakkar is an economics and Plan II honors senior from Austin, Texas. In this Q&A, read more about how his passion for economics research came to be and how…

  • Engaging with Opportunities

    Engaging with Opportunities

    Donatus Nnani is a religious studies and psychology senior from Detroit, Michigan. In this Q&A, read more about his time in the military and his undergraduate research experience.

  • Helping Others Learn

    Helping Others Learn

    Estefania Rodriguez is a Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative Fellow from Houston, Texas, who is triple-majoring in journalism, Latin American studies, and international relations and global studies. In this Q&A, read…

  • Speaking to the World

    Speaking to the World

    Celeste Oon is an Asian studies and linguistics senior from San Antonio, Texas. In this Q&A, read more about her thesis on Asian transnational fandoms, her advice to other first-generation…

  • Making the Most of Self-Care

    Making the Most of Self-Care

    March marked the one-year anniversary of the WHO declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic, and to say that it’s been a rough year would be an understatement. Whether we’ve lost loved…

  • Kind, Curious and Fearless

    Kind, Curious and Fearless

    A Q&A with Anna Cash, a psychology senior from Austin who is passionate about law and justice.

  • Travel by the Book

    Travel by the Book

    Literature and life guide Peter LaSalle’s latest collection of travel essays, The World is a Book, Indeed.