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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.
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Ransom Center Initiative Provides Free Access to More Than 22,000 Images of Collection Materials
To lower barriers to use of its collections, the Harry Ransom Center has adopted an open access policy, removing the requirement for permission and use fees for a significant portion of its online collections believed to be in the public domain.
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Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee’s Archive Donated to the Harry Ransom Center
The archive of Ben Bradlee (1921-2014), former editor of The Washington Post, has been donated to the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin.
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Harry Ransom Center Awards 70 Fellowships
The Harry Ransom Center has awarded 70 research fellowships for 2015–2016.
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Gabriel García Márquez symposium marks opening of author’s archive
UT Austin’s LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum, will host the symposium “Gabriel García Márquez: His Life and Legacy” Oct. 28-30 in Austin.
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“Young Adventurers Film Series” Complements Exhibition “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
The Harry Ransom Center presents the “Young Adventurers Film Series” in conjunction with the current exhibition “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” on view through July 6.
