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Cunningham-Kruppa to Lead Preservation and Conservation Efforts at Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center announces the appointment of Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa as associate director and head of the Preservation and Conservation Division.
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Blanton Museum of Art Announces Groundbreaking for Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin” and Organizes Symposium with Leading Kelly Scholars

The Blanton Museum of Art has announced that it will begin construction of Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin” in October. A groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for Oct. 31, and the building is expected to open to the public in late 2016 or early 2017.
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“Shakespeare in Print and Performance” Guides Visitors through 400 Years of the Bard on Paper and on Stage

On the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616, the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin presents the exhibition “Shakespeare in Print and Performance,” commemorating the enduring legacy, longevity and relevance of the most frequently performed and most venerated English playwright.
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Ransom Center Accepting Applications for Research Fellowships in the Humanities

The Ransom Center invites applications for its 2016–2017 research fellowships. More than 50 fellowships will be awarded for projects that require substantial onsite use of the Center’s collections, supporting research in all areas of the humanities including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history.
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Ransom Center to Acquire Archive of Kazuo Ishiguro

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at UT Austin, is acquiring the archive of award-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Just the Start of the Tour at The Ransom Center

The End of the Tour, a new film recounting the final days of David Foster Wallace’s promotional tour for his groundbreaking novel Infinite Jest, is one of the most-buzzed-about indie films to hit theaters this summer. And it has UT Austin connections you may not be aware of.
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Genders Differ Dramatically in Evolved Mate Preferences

Men’s and women’s ideas of the perfect mate differ significantly due to evolutionary pressures, according to a cross-cultural study on multiple mate preferences by psychologists at UT Austin.
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NEH Grant Will Transform Study of Early Books

A National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant will make many of the first books printed in the Americas available for the first time in digital full-text format, thanks to innovations in optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
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Selective Imitation Shows Children are Flexible Social Learners, Study Finds

Psychologists at UT Austin found that children flexibly choose when to imitate and when to innovate the behavior of others, demonstrating that children are precocious social learners.
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Professor Aims to Expand Art Audiences With $3.5 Million Wallace Foundation Grant

Professor Francie Ostrower is the recipient of a $3.5 million grant from The Wallace Foundation to study how performing arts organizations can develop approaches to attracting new audiences with the aim of generating useful lessons for arts organizations across the nation.
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Summer With Shakespeare

Ride a roller coaster of love, march toward war or brave the perils of the sea during performances of Shakespeare’s plays at Winedale. A cast of students is spending two months — and 18 hours a day — studying the Bard’s work and bringing the plays to life in performances this summer.
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Stars & Stripes: Briscoe Collection Shows Evolution of Old Glory

However you’re celebrating the Fourth of July, you’ll surely see Old Glory waving over the land of the free and the home of the brave. Look inside the Briscoe Center for American History’s flag collection to see how the star-spangled banner has changed over time.