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In a Maya signature class, first-year students get a rare learning experience: to be taught by not one, but two of the university’s MacArthur fellows.

Plan II is more than a curriculum track. It’s a community, says the director. The honors program celebrates its 75th anniversary with an alumni reunion March 25-26.

Difficult Dialogues courses offer just as much of a learning experience to the students as they do to the faculty that teach them. Participate in a Difficult Dialogues public forum on March 29 with Lawrence Wright, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Event: Lawrence Wright, author, playwright and staff writer for the New Yorker magazine, will discuss and sign his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11” at The University of Texas at Austin.

The College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin, moved to the number 2 position among American schools of education, up from number 10, in the U.S. News and World Report 2012 Best Graduate Schools rankings. The Cockrell School of Engineering and the School of Law each increased their positions, to 8 and…

The Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) and the Benson Latin American Collection are collaborating with the Brazil Center at the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies (LLILAS) and Kinobras to bring a Brazil and human rights film series to The University of Texas at Austin.

Event: John-Mike Reed of Handmade Music Austin will guide a do-it-yourself music innovation workshop in the Visual Arts Center’s (VAC) Arcade gallery.

Event: This edition of Art in Practice is presented in conjunction with the course “In and Out of the Studio” taught by Risa Puleo, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art.

The concrete block structure “Circle with Towers” by Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) has been purchased by Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin, from the Madison Square Park Conservancy in New York.

The Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin today announced plans to create The UT Academy of Music, a comprehensive music school for community learning.

EVENT: The Harry Ransom Center hosts public programs. WHEN: Various dates throughout March.

Art History Professor Moyo Okediji, curator of a new Visual Arts Center exhibition, goes beyond skin color to portray what contemporary African art is.