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[caption id="attachment_42389" align="alignright" width="336" caption="Photo courtesy of Michael O'Brien."][/caption]   AUSTIN, Texas  The University of Texas Press has undertaken the most ambitious and comprehensive publishing endeavor about the culture and history of one state ever undertaken The Texas Bookshelf.

[caption id="attachment_42001" align="alignleft" width="400" caption=""Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya." August 2001, printed 2013. Inkjet print. © Eli Reed / Magnum Photos."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas  The Harry Ransom Center presents “Eli Reed: The Lost Boys of Sudan,” an exhibition of photographs by Eli Reed (b. 1946), Magnum photographer and clinical professor of journalism at The University of Texas…

Artist and visiting professor Laurie Anderson blends technology, music and storytelling in her unique performance art. Her “Landfall” exhibit opens Friday on campus.

[caption id="attachment_42170" align="alignright" width="245" caption="George Rodger, Sahara Desert, 1957, verso. With permission of Magnum Photos."][/caption] AUSTIN, Texas The Magnum Photos collection, which contains nearly 200,000 press prints of images taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers, has been donated to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. The gift was made by Michael…

UT Austin scholars made headlines recently, discussing physiology, global politics and the Bard. Find out whether biking or running is more effective for weight loss, per Professor Tanaka.

Come view the inside secrets of some of America’s most iconic photographers at an exhibit featuring the Magnum Photos archive, opening this week at the Ransom Center. [Slideshow]

The University of Texas at Austin has recruited leading 3-D filmmakers Buzz Hays and Dave Drzewiecki to teach in the UT3D program, the nation’s only comprehensive 3-D production program.

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, invites applications for its 20142015 research fellowships in the humanities. [caption id=”attachment_41645″ align=”alignright” width=”300″ caption=”Cover of Eric Gill's 'Twenty-five Nudes' (1938; reprint, London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1951); James Salter's notes on possible titles for his…

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of acclaimed novelist, poet and essayist Julia Alvarez (b. 1950). [caption id="attachment_41669" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Sketch of 'The Tavárez-Mirabal 'Residence,' relating to 'In the Time of the Butterflies.' Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center."][/caption] Alvarez’s extensive…

The 2013 winners of the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards will be honored Wednesday for dedication to innovation in undergraduate instruction. See the list of 26 winners.

After 25 years as director, Tom Staley leaves an indelible mark on the Harry Ransom Center. Watch a slideshow containing key acquisitions and read about his legacy.

For centuries, scholars have been searching for answers to a literary mystery: Who wrote the five additional passages in Thomas Kyd’s “The Spanish Tragedy”?