Category: International
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Melanie Parra Brings Mexican Pride to Texas Volleyball
Alexa K. Haverlah, Alex Briseño Published: Texas Global This is the first installment of Texas Global’s international student athlete series, which celebrates Longhorn competitors from around the world and shares the stories of their journeys to the Forty Acres. When Texas Longhorn volleyball star Melanie Parra returns home to Mexico and enters a gym, she…
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The World’s Largest International Dark Sky Reserve is Helping UT Scientists Study the Universe
Alexa K. Haverlah Published: KUT.org The images from NASA’s James Webb telescope are some of the most breathtaking we’ve ever seen, showing a handful of the very first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang. Researchers at UT Austin’s McDonald Observatory are doing their part to understand our universe, as well. The largest telescope at the McDonald…
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Young Leaders of the World Hone Entrepreneur Skills on the Forty Acres
Alex Briseño, Alexa K. Haverlah, Bia Silva Published: Texas Global When Longhorns leave the Forty Acres at the close of each academic year, they might not know they’re making way for new groups of young learners and leaders. Bringing optimism and vision from around the world, the travelers seek skills and connections that can help…
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Fulbright Egypt Advisor Balances Academic Rigor and Student Success
Alexa K. Haverlah Published: Texas Global When Dr. Thomas J. Connolly was a mechanical engineering student 35 years ago, he remembers his professor saying on the first day of class: “Look to your left; look to your right: One of you will not graduate.” Connolly had arrived as a first-generation college student with limited exposure…
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Mexico City Museum Presents Gabriel García Márquez Exhibition from Ransom Center
Alexa K. Haverlah Published: Texas Global Forty years after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, the legacy of Colombian author, journalist and screenwriter Gabriel García Márquez lives on in the exhibition Gabriel García Márquez: The Making of a Global Writer.” The exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Mexico City, derived…
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Responsibility for Ukrainian Refugees Shifts to Individual American Sponsors Like Austin Woman
Alexa K. Haverlah Published: Reporting Texas Alex Warnken, born and raised in Russia, was helping volunteers along the U.S.-Mexico border translate medical documents from Ukrainian to English when one of the volunteers asked if she knew anyone willing to take in several refugees. Warnken, who knows what it’s like to adjust to a new country,…
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