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Headliners: From a recreated 19th century museum show to crowdsourcing Maya research to camouflage fish, work by UT scholars garners national attention. Check out the clips.

[caption id="attachment_39606" align="alignright" width="235" caption="Peter Orlovsky's notebook titled Rolling Thunder, Oct. 29, 1975."][/caption] The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, acquired the archive of American poet Peter Orlovsky (19332010), an important figure in the Beat Generation.

Is your bedroom scattered with laundry? Adorned with photos? Do you and your partner have equal closet space? Read more about what couples’ homes reveal.

The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired a letter written by George Washington.

Brian Schwarz, MFA ’12, will be in Beverly Hills on June 8 to accept a Student Academy Award for his film, “Ol’ Daddy.” Watch a trailer.

Don’t you hate it when your digital pictures are muddy, fuzzy, grainy or pixelly? A new image-processing website improves uploaded photos, removing the digital “noise.” Learn more.

The Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin has launched an online reconstruction of a famous art exhibit visited by novelist Jane Austen on May 24, 1813 exactly 200 years ago to the day.

The University of Texas and Texas AandM University systems will celebrate the opening of the Joint Library Facility on Friday, May 24, at Texas AandM’s Riverside Campus located west of Bryan, Texas. The dedication begins at 10:30 a.m. with remarks and ribbon cutting led by officials of both university systems, followed by an open house…

[caption id=”attachment_40337″ align=”alignright” width=”275″ caption=”James H. 'Jimmy' Hare crossing the Piave river, 1918, lantern slide; Gordon Conway, 'Red Cross Girl' illustration for Vanity Fair, 1918; Bob Landry, film still from 'A Farewell to Arms,' 1957; Erich Maria Remarque, 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' 1930; Lucile Patterson, National League for Woman's Service World War I…

While you’re wandering through campus, take a moment to notice the public art from the Landmarks collection. See a slideshow.

Katherine Noble, a graduating senior in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin, has won the $50,000 Keene Prize for Literature.

Keep your eyes on the Apple App Store. Five new apps created by journalism and computer science students are about to become reality. Watch a video.