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School of Architecture students and faculty joined architects from across the Americas in conversations about what defines modern American architecture.

Event: Visitors will be able to attend 20-minute, casual chamber music concerts at four of The University of Texas at Austin’s acclaimed museums.

The University of Texas at Austin announces the dedication of Walter Cronkite Plaza on April 19, 2012, in front of the Jesse H. Jones Communication complex, featuring the premiere of a public art installation by new media artist Ben Rubin.

EVENT: “¡A Viva Voz!” presents “Filmformance and Hacktivism: New Directions in Latin@ Performance,” with performance artist Nao Bustamante and new media activist artist Ricardo Domínguez. WHEN: 7-9 p.m., Thursday, April 12, 2012

Undergraduate student Kelsey McKinney describes her Harry Ransom Center internship experience and how a poet’s typewriter led her there.

Through exposure to and interaction with collection materials at the Harry Ransom Center, undergraduate students can open the door to the creative process.

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is filling three important vacancies with some of the best and brightest minds in the museum field, strengthening The Blanton’s leadership role among university art museums.

Thomas Smith (b. 1938), visual effects producer for such films as “Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back” and “E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial,” has donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. Smith was hired by George Lucas as the first head of Industrial…

Event: Latitudes 4: Architecture in the Americas When: Thursday, March 29, 1 p.m.-6:30 p.m.; Friday, March 30, 1 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Where: Goldsmith Hall, Mebane Gallery

On March 28 at the Game Changers live taping, the Undergraduate Studies dean discusses the “Ajax dilemma” and issues of fairness in American society.

Senior Cooper Neely took unexpected steps to his major in dance. He’s now one of the stars performing lead roles in the program’s spring show, “Catalyst.”

Event: The University of Texas Wind Symphony and Butler School of Music (BSOM) faculty tuba soloist, Charles Villarrubia will premiere BSOM faculty composer, Donald Grantham’s, “Tuba Concerto.” The event is free and open to the public.