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The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, announces the 11th Flair Symposium, “Cultural Life During Wartime, 18611865” to take place Sept. 1820.

Artist-in-residence Michael Sieben, BFA ’99, has created an underground skateboard world in the Visual Arts Center. Check out pictures of the installation and visit before May 10.

Can Twitter capture the complex narratives of American history? Follow along as noted UT historian H.W. Brands tweets the American saga 17 syllables at a time.

UT student musicians have captured the national spotlight, with recent stints on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “American Idol” and NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concerts.”

See what UT events, from faculty panels to a Shark Tank casting, are taking place during the SXSW conference March 7-16.

Meet senior neuroscience and jazz performance major Mason Hankamer, who has a unique brain condition that causes him to see music in colors.

At the Menuhin Competition, the pre-eminent international competition for young violinists being held at UT this week, judges are listening for the “goose bump” factor.

President Barack Obama and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) today announced the establishment of the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDI), a new $320 million research collaboration that includes The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering.

News of the president’s personal apology to a UT art historian has gone viral, and the department wants everyone to know they’re so much more than “looking at pretty pictures.”

“Twelve Years a Slave,” one of this year’s most lauded films, has sparked discussions about the institution it tackles. A panel of UT scholars offer their views.

UT hosts the world’s best violinists under age 22 for the Menuhin Competition, considered the Olympics of violin competitions. It’s the first time the event will be held in North America.