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AUSTIN, Texas -  In the first thorough account of the collections at The University of Texas at Austin, a new book from the University of Texas Press spotlights more than 80 collections - some familiar and others virtually unknown outside their fields of research - acquired since the university's inauguration in 1883.

AUSTIN, Texas -  In the first thorough account of the collections at The University of Texas at Austin, a new book from the University of Texas Press spotlights more than 80 collections - some familiar and others virtually unknown outside their fields of research - acquired since the university's inauguration in 1883.

In a scene from Jake Heggie's opera Moby-Dick, special effects recreate the whaling boats as the crew of the Pequod faces down the White Whale.

Songs cut from hit Broadway show after its first preview in 1956 unearthed by University of Sheffield lecturer They will be performed for the first time in 59 years as part of the University's first

Graduate of Freie Universität Wins 2015 Rising Star Award of the Canada International Film Festival and Will Show Film in Cannes The film A Useless Fiction by Cheong Kin Man, a graduate of Freie Universität Berlin, won the 2015 Rising Star Award at the Canada International Film Festival.

A monumental ensemble of more than 500 musicians from The University of Queensland and Brisbane high schools will perform two classic pieces this month.

Dr Mark Taylor, Lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods at the University of Sheffield, discusses what the outcome of the General Election may mean for arts and culture in the UK.

There have been three major revolutions in pop music, with the rise of hip-hop and rap causing the largest change in the charts, say researchers. Computer scientists and evolutionary biologists from Imperial College London and Queen Mary University of London analysed the musical properties of 17,000 Billboard Hot 100 tunes between 1960 and 2010.

Evolutionary biologists and computer scientists have come together to study the evolution of pop music.

The Cantor's entire collection will be online to everyone this fall, allowing scholars and the public greater access to the encyclopedic collection and presenting the Cantor staff with a clear picture of the museum's holdings.

Clevedon Pier in North Somerset will be part of a new study, involving historians from the University of Bristol, into Victorian seaside piers and how they fit with today's society.

Geneva, 30 April 2015. Arts @ CERN, CERN 's official engagement with the arts, is today announcing three winning art projects from the different strands, Accelerate @ CERN and Collide @ CERN, as well as launching the international open call for Collide @ CERN in digital arts.

Artists, academics and activists come together to consider the role of art in influencing and shaping our understanding of belief and conflict in the UK.

As a panel of Cornell alumni filmmakers talked about the pros and cons of the latest technologies during a Charter Day Weekend event April 25, Austin Bunn, assistant professor of performing and media

University showcases expertise in a month-long programme of concerts, film screenings, talks and lectures Themes include social and political cultures, sights and sounds, the digital age, place and s

Jonathan Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, discussed a number of developments in the humanities initiated at Cornell since the 1960s.

Leading British and American actors and directors from television and cinema will travel to the University of Warwick for a unique celebration of the Bard's birthday.

Lancaster students have contributed to a production at The Dukes theatre which will discuss some of the major political issues ahead of the General Election.

Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are developing a new wearable device that turns the user's thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad.

The award-winning University of Manchester project is marking ten years of work to mobilise communities through the arts "If it weren't for hip hop I would be dead.

Three University of Chicago faculty members have received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. These prestigious fellowships allow scholars to spend six to 12 months on full-time research and writing. The new fellows are Thomas Christensen, the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities; Nadine Moeller, assistant professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; and David Simon, assistant professor of English Language and Literature.

The University of Glasgow has secured funding to educate a new generation of curators, conservators and academic researchers to develop new ways of conserving and restoring contemporary artworks.

Documentary film 'Islands of Creation' captures UM researcher's fascinating speciation studies. By.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) UM News CORAL GABLES, Fla.

These clothes soon may be all the rave: Fiber science and physics students have teamed to create fashionable "smart" garments with vivid, luminescent panels that pulse to music.

This Etruscan sculpture shows Tydeus biting his enemy.

New Gallery, Art Space 616, Features Work by Carnegie Mellon Art Professor Martin Prekop-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University By Stephanie Magulick / 412-268-2902 / smagulick [a] cmu (p) edu A new gallery of contemporary art in Sewickley, Pa.

Cornell professor of musicology Judith Peraino will speak at Charter Day: A Festival of Ideas and Imagination.

Modern scientific methods for mapping the evolution of species are being applied to centuries-old hand-copied music, providing new inspiration for how it is performed.

Science Museum show linking old and new photographs opens this week Early science photos will be displayed alongside the modern and contemporary art photography they inspired at an exhibition opening this week in the Science Museum , co-curated by a Sussex academic.

New research and teaching labs - with cutting edge analytical equipment to detect the paints and pigments used by artists and examine drawings underneath paintings - will be housed in the new Centre being launched today at the University of Melbourne.

The squirrels are wary at first. They carefully sniff at the traps set on the chilly ground of Alaska's north slope, suspicious of their sudden arrival.

A 'grand and enlightened partnership' that benefits everyone and leads to real impact is the way ahead for universities, cultural organisations and great cities like Birmingham, Alan Davey said yesterday.

Australia's musicians are a happy bunch, despite many being poorly paid, having little job security, working long hours - and drinking heavily. The Musicians' Well-being Survey , conducted by Dr Stacey Parker from the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland, reports that 92 per cent of the 204 musicians surveyed reported mid to very high levels of general life satisfaction.

The verdict is such a disaster because the jury appears to have been swayed by things that were not supposed to matter, says Kal Raustiala Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman AP A jury decided tha

Have you ever seen animal-shaped clouds in the sky? Or faces in nature? Ever wondered if you can listen to music created by the stars? The University of Birmingham's Arts and Science Festival returns