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Event Promotion Campaign: Women’s History Month Campus-Wide Celebration
Campus-Wide Social Media Toolkit Web Announcement Student Stories Pre-Event Social Media Promos (DCCE news announcement, university-wide announcement, speakerbios) Pre-Event Student Storytelling (interviews with student volunteers) ‘She Starts Here’ Promos (alumni, faculty and staff spotlights) Event Day Reel (photo and reel highlights) Post-Event Wrap-Up (thank you message to attendees, volunteers and community partners)
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Q&A: State of Minds
Don Graham’s essays explore Texas’ storied history in film and literature By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine A vast land filled with sleepy small towns, sprawling pastures and gleaming urban skylines, Texas has an identity and mystique all its own. Just the word Texas conjures images of rootin,’ tootin’ cowboys, cattle drives, oil wells and…
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Life Lessons from the Great Books
By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine For any of life’s challenges, there is a Great Book to offer valuable insight. From Homer’s “Odyssey” to Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” the world’s greatest tomes have touched on themes that are as relevant today as when they were written. Tracing the ideas, stories and discoveries…
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English Professor Dean Young Named 2014 Texas State Poet Laureate
By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine Dean Young, professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named the 2014 Texas State Poet Laureate by the Texas Commission on the Arts. Recognized nationally as one of the most energetic, influential poets writing today, Young holds the William Livingston Chair of Poetry. He has published…
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That’s Shakespeare, With One ‘S’
By Jessica Sinn English Professor Confirms the Bard’s Hand in The Spanish Tragedy For centuries, scholars have been searching for answers to a literary mystery: Who wrote the five additional passages in Thomas Kyd’s “The Spanish Tragedy”? Mounting arguments point to William Shakespeare, but English professor Douglas Bruster has recently found evidence confirming that the 325 additional lines are indeed the…
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The Secret Life of Magnum Photographs
By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine High above a blur of cars on a congested street in Lower Manhattan, a Chinese man sits atop a tiny fire escape sipping a bowl of noodles. Surrounded by a concrete jungle of asphalt and high-rise buildings, the man is far from isolation. Yet somehow he appears to be…
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Virtual Gallery Reconstructs Art Exhibit Attended by Novelist Jane Austen
By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine The Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin has launched an online reconstruction of a famous art exhibit visited by novelist Jane Austen on May 24, 1813 – exactly 200 years ago to the day. In a letter to her sister, Austen joked that she would…
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It’s Plainer to an Explainer
By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine Asking children to come up with explanations — even to themselves — enhances their cause-and-effect learning abilities, according to new research by Cristine Legare, associate professor of psychology. The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, shows that young children who come up with explanations while learning are able to…
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States of Mind
By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine People with similar personality types are likely to cluster in certain geographical regions of the United States, making it possible to divide a map into three distinct personality regions, according to a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The study, co-authored by University of Texas at…
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King’s Treasure
Digital Archive Holds Untold History of African American Mental Health By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine Resplendent in his trademark sport coat and bow tie, Louis Armstrong plays a trumpet for a large gathering of patients underneath a grove of trees outside of Central State Hospital, the world’s first African American psychiatric hospital in Petersburg,…
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