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How much do you really know about politics and politicians? In a recently published study, researchers found a way to make people better at judging their own level of knowledge about candidates.

Event: The Harry Ransom Center and University Co-op presents a Harry Ransom Lecture with National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chairman

It happened again this past week. In the recently released Rolling Stone issue, President Obama critiqued Fox News.

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents “Turner to Monet: Masterpieces from The Walters Art Museum” from Oct. 2, 2010 to Jan. 2, 2011.

Event: NPR correspondent John Burnett, who earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from The University of Texas at Austin in 1978, will lead a panel discussion about reporting Mexico’s drug war — how journalists are coping with one of the most dangerous assignments in the w

Julia Margaret Cameron, ‘Study of Child’s Head,’ ca. 1866. Albumen print. 34.0 x 26.4 cm. EVENT: The Harry Ransom Center hosts public programs. WHEN: Various dates throughout October.

Event: Visual Arts Center (VAC) Opening Party

Actors from Spirit of Shakespeare, a University of Texas at Austin student organization, will perform scenes from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as part of a panel discussion titled “According to our Law: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Wednesday, Sept. 22, in the Eidman Courtroom at The University of Texas School of Law from 6:30 to…

Event: David Ellis’s motion painting “Animal,” created in residence at The University of Texas at Austin, will be premiered on Sept. 24 at the inauguration of the new Visual Arts Center (VAC).

Recovering a forgotten history of African American life was motivation enough for anthropology graduate student Nedra Lee and her peers to brave the Texas summer heat while excavating an old farmstead in southern Travis County.

It would have been a good story if the curtains Scarlett O’Hara ripped down in “Gone With The Wind” had been used to make her famous curtain dress, which is housed at the Harry Ransom Center. But, alas, that’s not the case.

David Ellis’s motion painting “Animal,” created in residence at The University of Texas at Austin, will be premiered on Sept. 24 at the inauguration of the new Visual Arts Center.