Campus
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Living landscape
In this Q-and-A, School of Architecture Dean Fritz Steiner chimes in on the role landscape architecture plays in the sustainability movement.
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Writer and storyteller of NPR fame visits campus
Kevin Kling, a world renowned humorist and author of the book “Holiday Inn,” recently taught a workshop and performed for a group of students and faculty.
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Libraries Complete Fire Maps Scanning Project
The University of Texas Libraries have completed a three-and-one half-year scanning project to make the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Texas and Mexico (1877-1922) available online.
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Ransom Center and Austin Public Library Friends Foundation Partner on Discussion Series Relating to Exhibition
Event: The Harry Ransom Center and the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation partner on a discussion series of books by authors that have related materials in the Ransom Center’s exhibition “Culture Unbound: Collecting in the Twenty-Fir
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The story of a voice
The film “When I Rise” chronicles the life of alumna Barbara Smith Conrad, who overcame racial discrimination to become a world-renowned opera star.
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“When I Rise” Screening, Performance, Panel at The University of Texas at Austin
Event: The Graduate School, The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin will present a series of events to celebrate Black History Month and the premiere of
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Blanton Museum Curator Heads to National Gallery of Art
Jonathan Bober, senior curator of European Art at the Blanton Museum of Art since 2010 and prior to that, curator of prints, drawings and European painting since 1988, will leave The Blanton on April 30 to become curator and head of the Department of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art in Washington,…
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“When I Rise” theatrical trailer
The documentary “When I Rise” chronicles the life of world-renowned opera singer and University of Texas at Austin alumna Barbara Smith Conrad.
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University incident becomes national news
In the documentary film “When I Rise,” Barbara Smith Conrad speaks candidly about being removed from the lead role in The University of Texas at Austin’s 1957 production of the opera “Dido and Aeneas.”
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Returning home to Center Point
Barbara Smith Conrad makes an emotional return visit to Center Point, Texas, her hometown and the home of the first accredited black school in the state.
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Barbara Smith Conrad: “When I Rise”
In 1957, Barbara Smith Conrad, who was part of the first racially integrated undergraduate class at The University of Texas at Austin, became the central figure in a civil rights storm that changed her life forever.
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Historian joins Bill Gates’ anti-polio efforts
Watch a Jan. 31 live stream of Pulitzer-winning Professor David Oshinsky and Gates Foundation guests discussing eradication of the disease.




