In July 1998, Chris Ohlson decided to make Austin home after visiting 40 of 50 U.S. states during a two-month road trip across America. After working in construction and in restaurants, Ohlson earned his chops in the Austin film industry as a production coordinator for commercials and low budget movies as he built his reputation in town.

What is more important to a musician than the ability to hear?

Hearing health is vital to every aspect of composing and performing music. Thanks to free hearing screenings at the UT Speech and Hearing Clinic, Austin musicians have access to services to ensure they can keep hearing—and playing—music.

John Daly is a renowned professor in the Moody College of Communication at

Thanks to a $3 million gift, the Moody College of Communication is now home to the Michael and Tami Lang Stuttering Institute, the only specialized research center in the nation to provide treatment services free of charge to children and adults who stutter.

After 11 years as dean of The University of Texas at Austin Moody College of Communication, Dean Roderick P. Hart announced he will step down effective Aug. 31, 2015.

Anne Helen Petersen knows gossip. An alumna of the media studies program in the Moody College of Communication, she earned a Ph.D. in 2011 researching the subject extensively and has built a career as a respected media critic since departing the Department of Radio-Television-Film.