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Eager to escape the heat? Dive into summer with a book recommended by a top faculty member.

What are doctors-in-training doing at UT’s Blanton Museum of Art?

A recent discovery in Maya ruins of Guatemala, deciphered by UT art historian David Stuart, yields only the second reference to 2012. But what does it mean?

Event: Three prominent scholars will discuss the life and contributions of Alan Turing at a symposium commemorating the centennial of his birth. Turing was one of the earliest pioneers of computer science and artificial intelligence.

The Harry Ransom Center has appointed Jessica S. McDonald, a curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as its new chief curator of photography.

For more than 50 years Karl Butzer, a renowned environmental archaeologist at The University of Texas at Austin, has trekked across continents, sifted through countless excavations and pored over collections in some of the world’s greatest libraries and museums in a quest to better understand hum

A southern meal of fried chicken or barbecue, homegrown tomatoes, a mess of greens, and peaches. Should they be subjects of academic research? Does southern food matter?

The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Texas State University-San Marcos, is offering the inaugural Texas Musical Theatre Workshop, a pre-collegiate summer intensive for high school students exploring a potential career in musical theater June 10-30.

Art collectors Herbert and Dorothy Vogel didn’t let their modest income deter their passion for purchasing art. Works from their remarkable collection are on view now at the Blanton Museum of Art.

The Harry Ransom Center presents the exhibition “I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America,” which explores the career of American stage and industrial designer, futurist and urban planner Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958).

EVENT: Public announcement and launch of Austin’s Historical Survey Wiki WHEN: Noon, Monday, June 4 WHERE: Austin City Hall Council Chambers, 301 W. Second St., 2nd floor