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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.

Our planet is vulnerable. Urbanization, population growth, natural and man-made disasters contribute to our frailty. Part of the solution to healing our planet is through sustainable building practices suited to the place, says Dean Fritz Steiner, in his new book “Design for a Vulnerable Planet.”

Event: Students from the Division of Textiles and Apparel in the School of Human Ecology at The University of Texas at Austin will debut their original fashion designs at the annual Fashion Show titled “Innova

The leading international expert on self-compassion, University of Texas at Austin educational psychologist Kristin Neff, has released a new book on how to reduce insecurity, anxiety and self-criticism and be kinder to yourself.

Don Howard, assistant professor of radio-TV-film at The University of Texas at Austin, has won a Guggenheim Fellowship Award on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

The College of Natural Sciences’ Dr. David Laude shares how the humanities shape his approach to life and the advice he now gives to students.