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Songs of the Season, a holiday sing-along at The University of Texas at Austin at noon Friday, Dec. 5, will bring students, faculty and staff together on the West Mall steps of the Main Building to celebrate the holiday season and the generosity of people who have contributed toward the university's Orange Santa gift program.

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A new exhibition of cultural artifacts from West Africa will be displayed at the Fine Arts Library at The University of Texas at Austin from Dec. 5 through March 5, 2009.

"Egungun: Diaspora Recycling" features the art of the Yoruba cultures—diasporic ethnic groups whose work reflects principles of recycling and regeneration of both spiritual and material [...]

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, professor emerita of comparative literature and Middle Eastern studies who taught for 24 years at The University of Texas at Austin, died Dec. 2 at the age of 81.

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea in her office at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1988. Known as "B.J." to her friends and family, Fernea was a [...]

Event: The University of Texas at Austin's Performing Arts Center will present a free, outdoor screening of "Monty Python and The Holy Grail" in conjunction with the Austin debut of "Monty Python's Spamalot," the tree-time Tony Award-winning musical based on the motion picture.

The screening is free and open to the public. There will also be [...]

The University of Texas at Austin College of Education's Principalship Program has received a $3 million grant to develop urban secondary-level school leaders who will be trained to address the unique challenges of inner city school management.

The U.S. Department of Education awarded the five-year grant, which allows for the creation of the University of Texas [...]

The University of Texas at Austin is naming its Center for American History for former Gov. Dolph Briscoe, who has donated $15 million to the center.

The Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin will be named for Dolph Briscoe, former governor of Texas, following gifts totaling $15 million.

The naming of the "Dolph Briscoe Center for American History" recognizes his support for preserving and promoting Texas and U.S. history.

The gift is the largest in the history of [...]

The College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin has received more than $1.5 million from the Cain Foundation to endow the Wofford Denius Chair in Entertainment Studies and establish a Creativity Fund to support graduate and undergraduate student work in filmmaking, digital narrative, music videos, photojournalism and visual advertising.

The Wofford Denius Chair [...]

A university provost, a national magazine editor, the Texas director of nursing, corporate executives and several outstanding faculty members and administrators will be among the keynote speakers for convocation ceremonies Dec. 6 and 7 at The University of Texas at Austin.

About 3,000 graduates this fall semester will include about 2,600 undergraduates, 10 law students, 170 [...]

Event: The University of Texas at Austin will hold a news conference to announce the naming of one of its research units.

President William Powers Jr. will make the announcement. When: 1 p.m., Monday, Dec. 1. Where: Main Building, Room 212.

(Members of the news media should stop at the guard booth at the 24th and Whitis [...]