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Graduating student Matt Nader’s football career ended before he even arrived at the university, and so he turned to helping others.

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has awarded more than 65 research fellowships for 201112.

Graduating student Lindsey Carmichael is a Paralympic archer shooting for gold in the literary world.

Alumna Jolynn Hoffman Free said she often has to explain the trail of crumbs that led her from the Department of Theatre and Dance into a career in financial services.

For 10 years, radio-TV-film students and Andrew Garrison, the project coordinator of the East Austin Stories documentary class, have been visually documenting the diverse East Austin community and the people who live, work and play there.

Aerospace Engineering Professor Hans Mark’s experience preparing to testify before a Senate committee turned him on to the “great books.”

In this video, Harry Ransom Center Director Thomas F. Staley reflects on the ways literature is vital to teaching us how to be alive.

Event: The Harry Ransom Center hosts public programs. When: Various dates throughout May.

KUT 90.5, together with NPR Music, will present the debut performance of the new album by Austin-based band Okkervil River, webcast live tonight from the legendary Cactus Cafe in Austin.

Event: The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance will host a public lecture by alumnus and Tony Award-winning designer Kevin Adams on May 3.

Dr. Ned Rifkin, director of the Blanton Museum of Art, will resign from that position May 31 to commit full time to scholarly work and teaching at The University of Texas at Austin.

Alumna and business owner Catherine Crago Blanton used her liberal arts education to get in on the ’90s technology revolution.