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Professor and former Department Chair Robert Schmidt of the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin will retire on Jan. 31.

Event: The Visual Arts Center (VAC) at The University of Texas at Austin hosts a reception as it introduces the first five exhibitions of the VAC’s spring season. The event is free and open to the public.

Event: Founder and Director of International Print Center New York (IPCNY) Anne Coffin will give a lecture on the history and identity of the IPCNY as part of the Department of Art and Art History’s new Printmaking Convergence pro

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a plate painted by Pablo Picasso from David Douglas Duncan, a photojournalist whose archive resides at the Ransom Center.

Event: The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance presents the 20th century musical theater milestone, “The Threepenny Opera,” written by Bertolt Brecht with music by Kurt Weill and directed by third-year Ma

EVENT: The Harry Ransom Center hosts public programs. WHEN: Various dates throughout February. WHERE: Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, 21st and Guadalupe streets.

The Burdine Johnson Foundation has given the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin a five-year, $150,000 grant to support the museum’s kindergarten through 12th grade initiatives, including school tours and the Art Central program, which annually serves about 11,000 students from more than 125 schools.

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $10,000 grant from the Friends of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics to rehouse and rearrange its holdings of the Herschel family papers and to create an online finding…

Award-winning journalist, author and School of Journalism Clinical Professor Bill Minutaglio has won the Writers’ League of Texas (WLT) 2010 outstanding book award in the nonfiction category for the biography “Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life.”

Event: The UT Chamber Singers will perform at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Waco, Texas under the direction of Butler School of Music Choral Director James Morrow on Jan. 31.

The Department of History debuts Not Even Past to bring stories, video interviews, podcasts and even free virtual classes to history buffs of all ages.

Historians at The University of Texas at Austin have introduced a first-of-its-kind Web site to help the public learn more about Texas, American and world history.