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Michelle Bryant

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Shake Up Your Winter Reading

December 11, 2020 by Michelle Bryant

Winter 2020-21 books from our college community.

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Ticket to Read

October 20, 2020 by Michelle Bryant

Fall 2020 books from our college community.

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This Summer is One For the Books

June 19, 2020 by Michelle Bryant

Summer 2020 books from our college community.

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Books in Bloom

April 17, 2020 by Michelle Bryant

Spring 2020 books from our college community.

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Season’s Readings

December 18, 2019 by Michelle Bryant

Winter 2019-20 books from our college community.

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Leave No Page Unturned

September 10, 2019 by Michelle Bryant

Fall 2019 books from our college community.

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Soak in Our Summer Reads

July 9, 2019 by Michelle Bryant

Summer 2019 titles from our college community.

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Books: Fall 2018

June 4, 2019 by Michelle Bryant

Fall 2018 titles from our college community.

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What’s in Your Library?

April 16, 2019 by Michelle Bryant

Over a period of five years (2013-18) a Faculty Committee on Influential Books discussed, debated and finally compiled a list of intellectually and culturally significant books to encourage reading by undergraduates and provide inspiration for continued reading by college alumni. The committee benefited from student suggestions and criticism in drawing up the list that mainly […]

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Living in a Material World: Philosopher Galen Strawson tackles a few of life’s nagging questions

July 2, 2018 by Michelle Bryant

Writer and actor Stephen Fry says Galen Strawson “opens windows and finds light-switches like no other philosopher writing today,” and novelist Ian McEwan simply dubs Strawson “one of the cleverest men alive.” High praise for this UT professor of philosophy, who discusses his latest book, Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, The Self, Etc. with Life […]

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Books: Spring & Summer 2018

June 4, 2018 by Michelle Bryant

Spring and Summer 2018 titles from our college community.

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Books: Fall & Winter 2017-18

May 15, 2018 by Michelle Bryant

Fall 2017 and Winter 2017-2018 titles from our college community.

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Smile, You’re on Camera: Behind the Lens of 24/7 Surveillance

January 18, 2018 by Michelle Bryant

“Even a strutting exhibitionist has something to hide: certain diary entries, genetic predispositions, financial mistakes, medical crises, teenage embarrassments, antisocial compulsions, sexual fantasies, radical dreams,” writes Randolph Lewis. “We all have something that we want to shield from public view. The real question is: Who gets to pull the curtains? And increasingly: How will we […]

Books: Summer 2017

June 26, 2017 by Michelle Bryant

Summer 2017 titles from our college community.

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Books: Spring 2017

April 28, 2017 by Michelle Bryant

Spring 2017 titles from our college community.

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The Cost of Crime

November 18, 2016 by Michelle Bryant

Despite crime rates being at a historic low, the United States is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to achieve an 80 percent recidivism rate. We’ve spent $1 trillion during the past 40 years on criminal justice, not including $1 trillion more on the war on drugs. William Kelly, a professor of sociology at The […]

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Books: Spring & Summer 2016

August 11, 2016 by Michelle Bryant

Spring and Summer 2016 titles from our college community.

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Be Kind to Animals

May 13, 2016 by Michelle Bryant

Since Janet Davis’ early childhood in Honolulu, Hawaii, she says she remembers a life surrounded by animals: chickens running around the yard, horse rides, caring for her pet dogs and cats. “It was a world saturated with animals, the formation of my moral consciousness, if you will,” says Davis, associate professor of American studies at The University of Texas at Austin. […]

Photograph from the remake of the miniseries, "Roots." Anika Noni Rose (Kizzy) and Laurence Fishburne (Alex Haley).

Remaking ‘Roots’

May 13, 2016 by Michelle Bryant

“This is a historian’s dream,” says Daina Ramey Berry, an associate professor of history at The University of Texas at Austin, who served as a technical adviser for the remaking of the television miniseries “Roots.” It will premiere on Memorial Day, airing over four consecutive nights. The A&E Networks’ HISTORY, A&E and Lifetime channels will […]

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall from the 1946 film The Big Sleep.

All Grown Up

November 2, 2015 by Michelle Bryant

What it Means to be an Adult Chances are at some point in your life, you have been told to “grow up” or “start acting your age.” Faced with the pressures of paying bills, holding down a steady job and frequenting home improvement stores, it’s easy to see why adulthood may have lost some of […]

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Books: Fall & Winter 2015-16

August 27, 2015 by Michelle Bryant

Fall and Winter 2015-16 titles from our college community.

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Books: Summer 2015

August 13, 2015 by Michelle Bryant

Summer 2015 titles from our college community.

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Depression: Making Treatment Personal

April 30, 2015 by Michelle Bryant

For the estimated 350 million people worldwide who suffer from depression, the health consequences go far beyond “feeling down.” In fact, it is a leading cause of disability worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people with symptoms of depression will never receive treatment, and for those diagnosed with major […]

Wes Anderson (Philosophy ’90) arrives for the 2015 FOX Golden Globes party at FOX Pavilion on Jan. 11 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Grand Victory

April 30, 2015 by Michelle Bryant

Liberal Arts alumnus Wes Anderson (Philosophy ’90) won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy in January and also received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Director for “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (2014). The whimsical and complex comedy earned a total of nine Academy Award nominations and took home four […]

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Little Words Can Mean A Lot

April 30, 2015 by Michelle Bryant

The smallest, most forgettable words in admissions essays — such as the, a, to, I and they — can tell us in advance how students will perform in college, according to a new study at UT Austin that included computerized text analysis of 50,000 admissions essays written by prospective college students. How a student uses small words, the study revealed, is related […]

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