John McPhee tells us that when his youngest daughter, Martha, was seventeen, her English teacher wrote forty-seven words on the blackboard and asked members of the class to write a composition using ...

The New Directions conference was born at the University of Texas (UT) in 2008. It was created with the intention to present graduate students with opportunities to build relationships and exchange ...

Perceptual and motor systems must reflect the natural tasks the organism performs as well as the properties of the natural environments in which the organism performs those tasks. Thus, the aim of ...

Mr. E. L. Keene, a 1942 graduate of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, envisioned a prize that would honor and support the pursuit of great American writing, and through ...

Please arrive no later than 5 p.m. Graduates may start lining up at 4:30 p.m. Graduates must be checked-in by 5:30 p.m. Graduates arriving after 5:30 p.m. will not be allowed to participate in the ...

Although most would say that we live in uncertain times, this consensus begs the question of whether or not the human species has ever experienced times of certainty. As we speculate about the past ...

The National Study of Learning Mindsets (NSLM) is now part of the Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute. More information here.

The Center for European Studies (CES) promotes the study of Europe in the form of: language study; providing courses on European culture, history, economics, business, and politics; creating ...

Oral history interviews, conducted by trained interviewers, recorded with good equipment, and archived in a publicly accessible archive, are one of the most effective ways of capturing the experiences ...

Those who choose to major in MES graduate from UT ready to enter graduate school, the business world, the non-profit sector, and government service. The Department of Middle Eastern Studies offers ...

Below are some commonly asked questions about senior theses. For more details look at the Senior Thesis Manual. How do I register for the thesis course? For permission to register for the Humanities ...

"People draw on history (and by relation archaeology) every day; whether it’s family history, histories of national pride, state pride, local legends, all of it goes into shaping our own understanding ...