Gail Cooksey’s journey to success began far from Texas in Omaha, Nebraska, where her passion for journalism first took root. 

Loren Grush is a space reporter for Bloomberg, where she covers everything from NASA, human spaceflight, and the booming commercial space industry to distant stars and planets. She’s the author of “The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts.” The daughter of two NASA engineers, she grew up surrounded by space shuttles and rocket scientists—literally.

South Korean American photographer and University of Texas at Austin advertising graduate Mary Kang debuted her photographic exhibition Somanu in the DMC on Oct. 9, 2024. The exhibition featured three of Kang's latest projects, presented through a photo talk. 

Former chair of Moody College of Communication’s journalism school Maxwell McCombs, who held the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in Communication Emeritus, has long been recognized as a pioneer in journalism because of his groundbreaking research into “agenda-setting” and the power reporters have to frame the crucial topics of the day. 

McCombs taught at The University of Texas at Austin for 27 years. 

He passed away on Sunday at the age of 85.