Summer 2017, Texas Leader
Key Supporter Why Sheryl Goodnight is supporting UT Austin’s piano and flute students Sheryl Goodnight remembers everything. A flute and piano virtuoso who earned a Bachelor of Music in applied piano with a certificate in flute from The University of Texas at Austin...
Summer 2017, Texas Leader
The Last Masterpiece With the help of donors, Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin will captivate campus visitors in February At the Blanton Museum of Art, there are temporary exhibits, there are permanent exhibits, and then there is Austin, the most permanent exhibit of...
Summer 2017, Texas Leader
The Best Preparation Bobby and Sherri Patton invest in Liberal Arts What is the difference between a vocational school and a university? To Bobby Patton Jr., the difference is important, so important that he and his wife, Sherri, are investing $20 million to make sure...
Summer 2017, Texas Leader
Long Exposure Lewis Smith’s photo collection deepens Harry Ransom Center’s archive In the stairwell just outside the President’s Office is a stained glass window, salvaged from the Old Main Building that once stood on that spot. On it, two words appear side by...
Summer 2017, Texas Leader
When One Equals Five Photos Courtesy College of Liberal Arts, Marsha Miller How physics professor Austin Gleeson inspired five professorships in the College of Liberal Arts Plan II Honors Program. “I didn’t know I was a rich person!” exclaims Austin Gleeson, 78. After...