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Three decades ago, if you had asked Dr. Stephen Martin how the molecules he synthesizes would be used today, he might have given you any number of answers ranging from cancer to Alzheimer’s research. He says it’s really a matter of “serendipity” that his life’s work may now culminate in a breakthrough non-opioid treatment for […]
As dusk falls over West Campus, the concrete walls of a neighborhood corner store thrum with sporadic bass and excited chatter. Students and locals fill the aisles, grabbing eclectic snacks while they wait for the clerks to cut the lights—their cue that the show between the shelves has begun. Friendly Rio Market is not your […]
It was a foggy morning in February 2021, and Kathryn Szoka was flipping through the New York Times from her home in Sag Harbor, New York, when her sacred Sunday routine was shaken by one announcement: John Steinbeck’s Sag Harbor home was on the market. The asking price was $17.9 million—a figure that only made […]
When Bibi Macias, a senior Economics and Sustainability Studies major, walks into her internship, she is greeted by a headless wrestler mannequin, fittingly bedecked in a cape and spandex pants. It’s one of the few constants in the nondescript warehouse where she spends her days sorting, pricing, and ultimately selling the surplus resources of UT […]
Sitting on the porch of their former neighborhood bar, a pitcher of cheap beer between them, Marion Trapolino, BS ’92, MSW ’09, Life Member, and her college friends felt like they were coming home. Although decades had passed since Trapolino’s crew used to ditch their backpacks in the evening to unwind at Cain & Abel’s, […]