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Small groups of workers can use communication tactics to agitate for democracy, transparency and fighting spirit within their unions, according to the new book “We ARE the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing” (University of Illinois Press, 2011) by Dana Cloud, associate professor of communication at The University of Texas at Austin.

The Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin is proud to announce a new graduate seminar course starting in spring 2012. “Staying in the Game” will focus on preparing studio artists for success in their professional careers. Austin-based visual arts executive Sue Graze will lead the seminar.

Classics and Religious Studies Professor L. Michael White won the Hamilton Book Awards Grand Prize for his scholarly book “Scripting Jesus.”

The scholar and teacher was elected to the Academy of the Hebrew Language in November for his seminal contributions to Hebrew studies.

The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired as a gift the professional and personal papers of Dominick Dunne, the acclaimed journalist and writer. Before his death in August 2009, Dunne directed that his papers should eventually be placed in the Briscoe Center’s News Media History collection,…

Bestselling novelist and Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne donated his personal and professional documents to the Briscoe Center’s journalism history archives at the university.

Nineteen undergraduate students from the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin will visit Santa Rosa, Honduras, Jan. 2-8 to finish construction on a school and community center they helped design and build.

Sixteen students spent four weeks in China navigating the ins and outs of international reporting. View a selection of photographs taken during their time studying abroad.

The Tower lights on the evening of Friday, Dec. 2 will recognize Professor William Lewis, who will be named to a prestigious French order.

From a music career to CEO of an AIDS research nonprofit, alumnus Kevin Robert Frost describes his journey in a recent column for The New York Times.

The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System has approved the renaming of the John Nance Garner Museum in Uvalde, Texas. to the Briscoe-Garner Museum, in honor of the late Governor Dolph Briscoe. Both Garner and Briscoe were Uvalde natives and historically important political figures from Texas.

American Studies Associate Professor Elizabeth Engelhardt serves up stories on Southern food culture just in time for Thanksgiving.