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Sky bridge in new College of Liberal Arts Building.

Bridge to Tomorrow

October 26, 2012 by David Ochsner

Students, faculty and visitors will soon cross this sky bridge from the Student Activity Center to the new Liberal Arts Building, where workers are putting finishing touches on labs, classrooms and other gathering spaces that maximize student/faculty collaboration while minimizing environmental impacts. Located on the East Mall near San Jacinto Street, the building is designed […]

It’s Not the End of the World…

October 21, 2012 by David Ochsner

Doomsday scenarios make better fiction than science, says researcher Karl Butzer For more than 50 years Karl Butzer, a renowned environmental archaeologist at The University of Texas at Austin, has trekked across continents, sifted through countless excavations and pored over collections in some of the world’s greatest libraries and museums in a quest to better […]

Ben Breen, history graduate student, used the month of September as depicted in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1412-4, France) to illustrate his post about the 5,000-mile trek of a Castilian diplomat along the Silk Road and his arrival in Samarkand in September 1404.

The Future of Not Even Past

October 20, 2012 by David Ochsner

History Comes Alive Through New Partnerships The Department of History has been reaching out to even more readers through two new collaborative projects. A new website, Milestones, produced together with historians at The Ohio State University, is a partnership between Not Even Past and Ohio State’s Origins. Each month historians at the two universities will […]

Aerial view of new College of Liberal Arts building, East Mall. Conceptual drawings courtesy of Overland Partners

Building the Model

April 28, 2012 by David Ochsner

The University of Texas at Austin is known for its landmark buildings — The Tower, The Texas Union, Battle Hall. Soon to join these campus icons: the new College of Liberal Arts building, nearing completion on the East Mall. Not only is the building the newest landmark for the campus, it is also a landmark […]

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