The UT Tower with darkened lights.

The UT Tower will darken Friday, April 26, 2024, in memory of Longhorns who died during the past year.

Except for a white cap and observation deck, all of the Tower’s levels and windows will darken as part of UT Remembers.

Held annually as the spring semester ends, UT Remembers gives the university community a time to gather in remembrance of students and current and retired faculty and staff who died during the past year, while also reflecting on who they were, what they gave to the University and what they meant to the people whose lives they touched. This tradition is an in-memoriam recognition of their lives, and provides a time to remember those whom we have lost and honors the impact they had on the larger university community.

View the 2024 UT Remembers schedule here.

The list of those being remembered in the 2024 ceremony is available here.

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